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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The Alliance to End Homelessness has partnered with researchers from the Victimology Research Centre at Algonquin College</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> to better understand how the COVID-19
pandemic has affected the homelessness sector in Ottawa. The research is funded by SSHRC and <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">has received ethics approval from Algonquin College, with secondary approval from Carleton
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Phase 1</b> of the study has just been completed and involved interviews with service providers about system responses to homelessness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Phase 2</b> will include a survey, interviews, and focus groups with people who have experienced homelessness during the pandemic. Interviews and focus groups will be co-facilitated with peer researchers who have
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We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider hanging our recruitment poster in your drop-in space, and/or posting it to your social media. </div>
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If you would like us to drop off hard copies of the poster or if you have a space on-site where we could conduct interviews, please email our centre: vrc@algonquincollege.com </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The poster is attached here as PDF and provided as a PNG.
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for all you are doing to support people through the pandemic.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 130, 103)">Benjamin Roebuc</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 130, 103)">k</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:8pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 130, 103)"></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(99, 102, 99)">Research Chair & Professor of Victimology, PhD</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(144, 147, 144)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Co-author of<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><font face="Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/staying-alive-while-living-the-life" title="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/staying-alive-while-living-the-life" style="margin:0px">Staying
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 130, 103)"><i>I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people.</i></span></p>
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