[homeles_ot-l] Summer reading & Alliance summer hours

Mon Jul 16 13:49:23 EDT 2007

Hello everyone,

I will be away from the office from July 18th to August 18th and my
“out-of-office message will indicate how to handle urgent and/or media
requests in my absence.

Lynne Browne

Reminder:

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Each of you, as listserv members, may send messages to the list yourself by
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A Selection of Homelessness Information Available in the Ottawa Public
Library

The Alliance’s Research and Evaluation Working Group, with excellent work
from Mandi Peterson, a student at Ottawa University, has finalized a reading
list on homelessness for the general reader to support our public awareness
work. The list will be posted on our website. The materials are available at
the Ottawa Public Library.

We have also requested the Report Cards on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa for
2004, 2005 and 2006 be added to the Library’s collection. For now they can
be downloaded at HYPERLINK
"http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/"http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/ 

General Reading on Homelessness

Ottawa-Carleton

*        The community action plan to prevent and end homelessness in
Ottawa-Carleton / 

By Ottawa-Carleton (Ont.)

*        Progress report 2001 on the homelessness action plan: report to
Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee and Council

Submitted by Dick Stewart, People Services Department

*        Homelessness in Ottawa-Carleton 

Prepared by Policy and Performance Management Services Branch, Strategic and
Operational Support Directorate, Social Services, Region of Ottawa-Carleton

*        Describing the homeless population of Ottawa-Carleton: fact sheets
of selected findings

By Susan Farrell ...[et al.]

*        The health of the homeless in Ottawa-Carleton: a report

Prepared by Region of Ottawa-Carleton, Public Health Department

Canada

*        Dying for a home : homeless activists speak out 
By Cathy Crowe

*        All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada 
By Susan Scott 
Please note that this book is not yet available in the Ottawa Library but we
have requested copies be purchased. For now it is available in bookstores
(ISBN 1551117592, Broadview Press, 2007).

*        On the street: how we created the homeless

By Barbara Murphy

*        Homelessness: the making and unmaking of a crisis

By Jack Layton

*        On her own: young women and homelessness in Canada/ Où se tourner?
: la situation des jeunes femmes sans abri au Canada

By Canadian Housing and Renewal Association with researchers Sylvia Novac
... [et al.]/ Association canadienne d'habitation et de rénovation urbaine
avec les chercheuses Sylvie Novac ... [et al.].

*        Documentation of best practices addressing homelessness/
Documentation des pratiques exemplaires d'intervention auprès des sans-abri.

Written by Best practice agencies, coordinated by Luba Serge ; prepared for:
Research Division, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

*        StreetCity [videorecording]

A film by Bay Weyman

o       A verite documentary set in an experimental housing project for
Toronto's homeless people, explores a microcosm of homeless society:
alcoholics, drug addicts, psychiatric survivors, the abused and the
neglected. But most of all, it's a film about the homeless as real people
and as a result, it is intimate, moving and disturbing

*        Mean streets: youth crime and homelessness 

John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann
Climenhage.

o       A field study, featuring intensive personal interviews, of young
people living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver.

*        The Street [videorecording]: a film with the homeless

Produced by Necessary Illusions Productions inc. ; director, Daniel Cross ;
producers, Daniel Cross and Don Haig ; executive producer, Peter Wintonick

o       For six years, director Daniel Cross and cameraman Richard Boyce
followed the lives of brothers Danny and John Claven and Frank O'Malley,
three homeless men who spent much of their time in and around a Montreal
subway station. Cross became intimately involved with the three men's lives,
chronicling the evolution of their years on the street, and their cycles of
addiction and recovery, hope and despair.

*        No address/ Sans adresse [videorecording]

By National Film Board

o       Many Native people come to Montréal searching for jobs and a better
life. They come without money, without friends, without jobs, and very
quickly become part of the homeless population that lives on the streets. In
No Address, Native filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of these
people--dislocated from their traditional values, alienated from the rest of
the population, torn between staying and returning home. She also looks at
the Montréal Native Friendship Centre and other organizations that are
attempting to help these individuals. (Awards: Columbus; San Francisco.)

United States

The homeless

By Jennifer A. Hurley, book editor

*        Visible on the streets of every American city, the homeless
continue to elicit emotional debate. This anthology contains the following
chapters: Is Homelessness a Serious Problem? What Are the Causes of
Homelessness? What Housing Options Would Benefit the Homeless?

Why do people live on the streets?

By Kaye Stearman

*        The world can be a confusing place. This, series helps students
gain an understanding of the difficult issues that surround them. Pro and
con arguments, detailed descriptions, and real-life case studies give
students the information they need to understand what's happening in the
world and make difficult personal decisions.

Homeless : struggling to survive

By Virginia Peterson

*        The Compact Reference Series provides the same comprehensive
coverage of key social issues in 27 44-88 page soft cover volumes. Volumes
in the Compact Series are completely updated and revised every two to three
years

Homelessness

By Kaye Stearman

*        Looks at some of the causes and experiences of homelessness
throughout the world and considers how societies might solve the problem and
ensure every person a safe place to live.

Homeless children

By Eleanor H. Ayer

*        Discusses why children become homeless in the United States, how
they live, and what can be done to help them

International

*        Homeless : policies, strategies, and lives on the street

Gerald Daly

o       Homelessness is a growing sore on the body of civilization. The
causes of homelessness are varied and poorly understood, but the quiet
knowledge that life on the streets is dangerous and debilitating is cause
for alarm in the rest of society. Public interest groups point to the
failure of shelter systems, cutbacks in government funding, and shortages of
affordable housing, and the effects run so deep that any measure of
community well-being or quality of life must be called into question as we
see more and more people become homeless every year. "Homeless" is the first
comprehensive international study of homelessness. If the issue is to be
addressed correctly, according to author Gerald Daly, then the category of
"homeless" itself must be broadened. "Homeless" is crucial reading for
counselors, policy makers, volunteers, and anyone concerned about this very
critical condition.

2007 – Research And Evaluation Working Group, Alliance to End Homelessness

Lynne

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

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