[homeles_ot-l] Invitation-ATEH Community Forum on Homelessness, November 22, 2007 & Registration Form

[Lynne Browne]

Hello Everyone,

 

The Alliance to End Homelessness’ Research and Evaluation Working Group is
very pleased to invite you to our 2007 Community Forum on Homelessness on
Thursday, November 22nd.

 

Please post and circulate widely.

 

We are all especially excited about the Preliminary Program outlined below
and in the attached invitation. Deadline for registration is Nov. 19th but
as always we would greatly appreciate receiving the registration forms as
soon as possible to plan for food, etc. 

 

Warm regards,

 

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 

The Alliance to End Homelessness


Invitation to register 


2007 Community Forum on Homelessness


Linking National Research with Ottawa Action and Policy 


in honour of NATIONAL HOUSING DAY, Thursday, november 22, 2007


Location: University of Ottawa, Tabaret Hall Chapel, 75 Laurier, 1st Floor

Time: 9:00 am–3:30 pm  ~  Registration Free  ~  Lunch Provided

~ Please Email Registration Form ~

Featuring our Special guests 

The Research Alliance for Canadian Homelessness, Housing, and Health (REACH
3), 
a collaborative interdisciplinary network of academic investigators and
community partners in Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. 

 

Preliminary Program 

Morning Plenary Research Panels 

Housing Solutions

Moderated by an Ottawa REACH3 Member

Panel members

Liz Evans, BScN, Portland Hotel Society, Vancouver 

                        – on innovative housing programs that have been
created in Vancouver. 

Stephen Hwang, MD, MPH, St.-Michaels Hospital, Toronto 

                        – on policy and program implications of some of
their research

Lorraine Bentley, Executive Director, Options Bytown, Ottawa 

                        – reacting with implications for the housing
situation in Ottawa.

Youth community member, Ottawa 

                            – providing a personal perspective on their
housing difficulties in Ottawa

Homelessness Youth Can Move Forward

Moderated by an Ottawa REACH3  Member

Panel members

Elise Roy, MD, MSc, Université de Sherbrooke 

                            – Montreal Street Youth

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

                            – Calgary Street Youth

Catherine Worthington, MSc, PhD, University of Calgary 

                            – Calgary Street Youth

Andrea Poncia, Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa 

                            – HIV/AIDS Educator

An Ottawa youth community member 

                           – commenting on the findings and their own
experience

Informal Lunch & Networking Caucuses — A 1½ hour opportunity to share ideas
from Ottawa and ask more questions of REACH3 members.

Select your lunch then join one of the Lunch Caucuses, focusing on a variety
of topics, facilitated by Ottawa’s Alliance to End Homelessness members.

 

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 Hubley

A session describing how the community and the academic's worked together on
InSite, Vancouver’s legal supervised injection site.

Hear about the good, bad and ugly parts of the experience when the private,
public and not-for-profit sectors, come together locally, nationally and
internationally.

 

Closing Activity

Walk for Housing

Taking the need for a National Housing Program out to the community!

 

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.

 

 

The Alliance to End Homelessness gratefully acknowledges support from its
Members, the University of Ottawa & the National Homelessness Initiative,
Government of Canada.

 

 


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