Events

Alliance Events 2007

2007 Community Forum on Homelessness

Linking National Research with Ottawa Action and Policy

In honour of NATIONAL HOUSING DAY, Thursday, November 22, 2007

University of Ottawa, Tabaret Hall Chapel, 75 Laurier E., 1st Floor, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

The Program featured our 2007 Special Guests: The Research Alliance for Canadian Homelessness, Housing, and Health (REACH3)

A collaborative interdisciplinary network of academic investigators and community partners in Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal.

2 Morning Plenary Research Panels:

Housing Solutions

Moderator  Wendy Muckle, 

Ottawa Inner City Health & Ottawa REACH3 Member

Panel members

Liz Evans, BScN, Portland Hotel Society,Vancouver – Innovative housing programs

Stephen Hwang, MD, MPH, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Policy & program implications PPT

Lorraine Bentley, MA, Executive Director, Options Bytown, Ottawa housing situation PPT

Homeless Youth Move Forward

Moderator  Susan Farrell,

Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre & Ottawa REACH3 Member

Panel members

Nancy Haley, MD, FRCP, Montreal Public Health Department, Montreal street youth PDF

Bruce MacLaurin, MSW, PhD (Cand.), University of Calgary, Calgary street youth PPT

Catherine Worthington, MSc, PhD, University of Calgary – Calgary street youth

Andrea Poncia, Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa (YSB), Ottawa street youth PPT

Janna Dickinson, Youth Advocate – Ottawa youth perspective

Informal Lunch Networking Caucuses

Chat with REACH3 members and each other

Facilitated by Ottawa’s Alliance to End Homelessness Members, hour-long caucuses to share ideas with each other and to ask more questions of REACH3 members.

• Aboriginals
• Community Engagement / Nimbyism
• Francophone
• Health & Harm Reduction
• Housing & Supports
• Newcomers
• Single Women / Single Men
• Youth

Afternoon Plenary Session

The Good, Bad and Ugly – the InSite Experience

The “how” behind linking community agencies and researchers

Led by Sarah Evans, Liz Evans and Anita Palepu

A session describing how the community and the academic's worked together on InSite, the good, bad and ugly parts of the experience when the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, come together locally, nationally and internationally.

All Day – Special Exhibit A Sound & Photo Installation

Street Health Stories  How do you take care of your health when you don’t have a home?

8 Street Health Stories in large lightbox prints with headphones

The National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence presents the Street Health Stories installation which gives a human face and voice to Street Health’s statistics.

Four photographers who have experienced homelessness ~ Adrienne, Jess, Keneisha, and Meghan document the stories of 28 homeless men and women through audio recordings and portrait-photography. Katerina Cizek, a documentary-maker and the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence at an inner-city hospital, teaming up with partners at the frontlines – doctors, nurses and patients – to create collaborative media.

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We gratefully acknowledge support from:

• our Alliance to End Homelessness Members,
• the United Way/Centraide Ottawa,
• the University of Ottawa &
• the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, Government of Canada.