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2006 Community Forum on Homelessness

Linking Ottawa Research with Action and Policy

On National Housing Day, the Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa will hold its third Community Forum on Homelessness - Linking Ottawa Research with Action and Policy. The Forum is organized by the Alliance's Research and Evaluation Working Group with the support and involvement of many Alliance member organizations.

9:00     Welcome & Opening Remarks by Mary-Martha Hale, Chair of the Alliance to End Homelessness

Forum Chair: Tim Aubry, Chair, Alliance’s Research and Evaluation Working Group and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Community Services, University of Ottawa.

Mayor's Proclamation on November 22, 2006: National Housing Day in the City of Ottawa

Presented by Deputy Mayor Jacques Legendre

MORNING

Ottawa Research Studies: Implications for Action and Policy

PowerPoint Presentations & other reports where available

Research Posters

Profile of Rooming House Residents, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal, Research Highlight,

David Laut, City of Ottawa & Anna Lenk, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

A Day in the Life: Stories and Photographs of Health and Homelessness in Toronto

(Poster Text)

Laura Cowan & Erika Khandor, Street Health Toronto

12:30  Lunch & Networking

AFTERNOON

Homelessness and the Ottawa Community

Mark Sutcliffe, Chair of the United Way/Centraide Ottawa & Ottawa Citizen Columnist

Training / Information Session

CMHA: Providing Integrated Treatment to Individuals with Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder – Housing First

Donna Pettey & Dwane UnRuh, Canadian Mental Health Association Ottawa Branch

CAISI – Client Access to Integrated Service and Information – A tool to link information between service providers from multiple agencies to make it easier for them to work with and for clients.  Wendy Muckle, Ottawa Inner City Health

Valuing Diversity – An introduction to diversity training – Laraine Kaminsky, from Graybridge Malkam (offers customized and interactive diversity programs for front-line staff, skilled professionals, management teams and executives in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, nationally and internationally).

Keynote Speaker

Connecting Research with Advocacy on Homelessness and Housing

Dr. Geoff Nelson

Professor and Chair Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Areas of interests:    Geoffrey Nelson works in the areas of community-based prevention programs for vulnerable families and children, housing, support, and self-help for psychiatric consumers/survivors.

Research approach: He emphasizes working in partnership with disadvantaged people, participatory action research, the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, and value-based critical perspectives that challenge the status quo and that are oriented towards social change.

Accomplishments:    He has served as Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health and Chair of the Community Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. Professor Nelson was the recipient in 1999 of the Harry MacNeill award for innovation in community mental health from the American Psychological Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Society of Community Research and Action and of the American Psychological Association. Professor Nelson was named Researcher of the Year at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2004. He has published extensively over the course of an academic career that spans over 25 years. He has written or edited six books including Shifting the paradigm in community mental health: Towards empowerment and community and Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being.