A Data Roadmap for Preventing
Youth Homelessness
Project Team
Matthew Russell, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Shiva Zarezadeh Kheibari, Fatima Mustafa, and Mardi Daley
Investigator Team
Yale Belanger (University of Lethbridge; Primary Investigator), Liana Urichuk (PolicyWise for Children & Families), Janice Victor (University of Lethbridge), and Naomi Nichols (Trent University).
Project Resources:
Supplement 1: Canadian Data Infrastructure Scan – A scan of the state of existing Canadian administrative data*.
Supplement 2: Making the Shift Project Interviews – An analysis of interviews with current Making the Shift project team members.
Supplement 3: Administrative Data Promising Practices – A literature review on promising practices for administrative data.*
Supplement 4: Community Service Provider Interviews – An analysis of interviews with community service providers serving youth facing homelessness.
Supplement 5: Youth Focus Groups – An analysis of focus groups with youth with lived experience of homelessness.
Supplement 6: Canadian Policy Scan – A scan of recent Canadian policies and how they relate to project findings.
*Administrative data is information collected by organizations for their operations. It can be linked to other information to help predict and prevent homelessness.
Related Resources:
Introduction to our project – Our partner, Making the Shift, sat down with us to chat about our project.
Project overview and findings – We held a video webinar with support of our partner, Making the Shift, to discuss our project approach, where we are at, and what we have found so far.