[homeles_ot-l] CHRA FW: Free Webinar: Working with Homeless and At-Risk Youth and their Families

Fri Mar 25 10:42:25 EDT 2011

FYI . . . Lynne Browne
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) 
613-241-7913, ext 205
lbrowne at ysb.on.ca <mailto:lbrowne at ysb.on.ca>  
147 Besserer St., Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca <http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/>  

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From: Evans, Leonore [mailto:Leonore.Evans at ottawa.ca]
Sent: Fri 25/03/2011 9:52 AM
To: Lynne Browne
Subject: Free Webinar: Working with Homeless and At-Risk Youth and their Families
Hello Lynne,

Can you please post this on the listserve?

Thanks,

Leonore

From: CHRA - ACHRU [mailto:info at chra-achru.ca] 
Sent: March 24, 2011 1:00 PM
To: Evans, Leonore
Subject: Upcoming CHRA Webinar!

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Thursday 24 March

Upcoming CHRA Webinar 

Webinar: Free of Charge!
Webinars are always free to members of CHRA, while there is usually a cost for non-members to participate. However, CHRA and Eva's Initiatives want as many organizations as possible to have access to the important information and toolkit, which will be discussed and made available during the webinar; thus, this webinar will be free of charge to non-members and members alike. Please note that this webinar will be accessible in English only. Click here to register for webinar. Log-in information will be sent to you upon registration. 

Click here to register for webinar. <http://canadianhousingrenewalassociation.createsend2.com/t/r/l/jrldidl/kiqitjrr/d/>  Log-in information will be sent to you upon registration.

Exploring Prevention:
Working with Homeless and At-Risk Youth and their Families
Join guest presenters, Sondra Marcon and Rachel Gray, from Eva's Initiatives in Toronto as they discuss the successes of their Family Reconnect Program and share how you can duplicate this award-winning program in your own community.

In Australia and the UK, government-funded prevention strategies in education, outreach and early intervention are at the core of their responses to youth homelessness. In Canada, however, these kinds of approaches are rarely seen. Eva's Initiatives' Family Reconnect Program is one of the rare exceptions.

The Family Reconnect Program
For the past ten years, the Family Reconnect Program staff have been working to challenge the stigma that families are simply "the problem". By helping homeless youth to reconnect with their families and engaging in early prevention, the Family Reconnect Program assists in keeping young people from a long-term involvement in street life.

The positive results of this program speak for themselves. In 2009, 58 youth were assisted in returning home, moving into appropriate housing or remaining at home through early intervention. These results meant big savings for the Toronto shelter system: (based on an average 3-month stay) the city saved $312,000 thanks to this program.

The Reconnect Tool Kit
And now the staff at Eva's Initiatives want to share their success and help others to achieve it across the country. In order to do this, they have created the Reconnect Tool Kit - a helpful tool which provides:

- detailed information about the Family Reconnect Program;
- options for incorporating prevention strategies in your organization;
- resources to develop prevention initiatives in your setting;
- the basics of including families in conversation;
- details on how to structure an entire program.

This toolkit will be discussed during the webinar and an electronic copy will be provided to all participants.

When? 
Thursday, April 14, 2011
1:30 pm-3:00 pm, Eastern Time
Click here to register <http://canadianhousingrenewalassociation.createsend2.com/t/r/l/jrldidl/kiqitjrr/h/> 

Speakers:
Sondra Marcon is a Family Intervention Counselor with Eva's Initiatives Family Reconnect Program. Sondra has extensive experience working with youth and families in the homelessness sector, child welfare, the foster care system, and autism services.

Rachel Gray is the Director of National Initiatives Program at Eva's Initiatives. The NIP supports community agencies working with homeless and at-risk youth in Canada by sharing program materials and experience; and by working collaboratively with partners in the sector.

Eva's Initiatives is an organization that works with homeless and at-risk youth ages 16-24 to get them off the streets permanently. Click here to learn more. <http://canadianhousingrenewalassociation.createsend2.com/t/r/l/jrldidl/kiqitjrr/k/> 

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