[homeles_ot-l] Reminder/new version to circulate - Community Forum on Homelessness on Nov. 22, 2007

[Lynne Browne]

Hi Everyone,

 

Thanks very much to those of you who’ve already sent in your registrations
for our 2007 Community Forum on Homelessness on Thursday, November 22nd.
I’ll pass on your enthusiastic comments to the planning group. 

 

The attached invitation includes a few minor changes and we’d appreciate you
sending this version on to your colleagues and contacts as a reminder to
register and to be posted and circulated.

 

We will be sending out the full Final Program prior to the deadline for
registration on Nov. 19th.

 

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, MA, Executive Director, Options Bytown, Ottawa 

                        – reacting with implications for the housing
situation in Ottawa.

Resident, Options Bytown, Ottawa 

                            – providing a personal perspective on their
housing difficulties in Ottawa

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.

 

 

We gratefully acknowledge support from our Alliance to End Homelessness
Members, United Way/Centraide Ottawa, the University of Ottawa & the
Homelessness Partnering Strategy, Government of Canada.

 


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