Homelessness in Hiding: Recent Episodes
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Homelessness in Canada is a major issue that consistently goes overlooked. Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks discusses homelessness in our communities, how homelessness and connected issues impact all of us, and the stories of people with lived experience and those fighting on the frontlines.
New episodes bi-weekly.
Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. The shelter system is integral for immediate intervention in times of crisis and long-term support of youth without support elsewhere. Without youth shelters to take on the brunt of emergency response, we wouldn’t get anywhere. Too many youths would be outright lost to the adult system or the streets.
In this three-part mini-series, we will uncover the truth of life in a youth shelter in Peel, from both a service provider and youth perspective. We’ll capture some of the rules, norms, and taboos that exist within youth shelters to keep them comfortable, practical, and secure for everyone.
In this episode, we interview three more youths who were living in Brampton Youth Shelter in August of 2023. We’ll hear their stories, learn their insights, and heed their calls to action.
Want to Volunteer? Want to become a Bridgebuilder? Email us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to help!" and let us know what you're interested in doing with us.
Follow up with REST Centres:
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Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. The shelter system is integral for immediate intervention in times of crisis and long-term support of youth without support elsewhere. Without youth shelters to take on the brunt of emergency response, we wouldn’t get anywhere. Too many youths would be outright lost to the adult system or the streets.
In this three-part mini-series, we will uncover the truth of life in a youth shelter in Peel, from both a service provider and youth perspective. We’ll capture some of the rules, norms, and taboos that exist within youth shelters to keep them comfortable, practical, and secure for everyone.
In this episode, we interview three youths who were living in Brampton Youth Shelter in August of 2023. We’ll hear their stories, learn their insights, and heed their calls to action.
Want to Volunteer? Want to become a Bridgebuilder? Email us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to help!" and let us know what you're interested in doing with us.
Follow up with REST Centres:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // Linkedin // Support the Organization (Canada Helps)
Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. The shelter system is integral for immediate intervention in times of crisis and long-term support of youth without support elsewhere. Without youth shelters to take on the brunt of emergency response, we wouldn’t get anywhere. Too many youths would be outright lost to the adult system or the streets.
In this three-part mini-series, we will uncover the truth of life in a youth shelter in Peel, from both a service provider and youth perspective. We’ll capture some of the rules, norms, and taboos that exist within youth shelters to keep them comfortable, practical, and secure for everyone.
In this episode, Youth Support Supervisor Crystal Groves, Youth Worker Latoya Green, and Complex Case Coordinator Abigail Fraser-Dillon from Our Place Peel share what life is like inside the shelter as service providers. Let's learn about the services provided, their impact on the community, and the pros and cons of the youth shelter system.
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We would like to thank the Laidlaw Foundation for their generous funding of REST Centres' new "My Story, My Power" program!
Want to Volunteer? Want to become a Bridgebuilder? Email us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to help!" and let us know what you're interested in doing with us.
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When the world shut down in 2020, international student Sasha had nowhere to go. Racing against the ticking clock of her university residence shutting down, Sasha and her friends rushed to find housing in the GTA. Little did they know the nightmare they were diving into. On this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, we’ll hear Sasha’s story of renting in the GTA as an international student. Her experiences expose the tricky landscape of unlawful deposits, awful maintenance, and, in her words, the practice of social law versus legal law.Want to Volunteer? Email us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to volunteer!" and let us know what you want to do with us.
Further Reading:
A report about international student fees // Lodging Houses (Brampton) (Mississauga) // International Students In CanadaFollow up with REST:Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // Linkedin // Support the Organization (Canada Helps)
Homelessness and poverty are complicated issues that so often feel like they’re being overlooked by the people in charge. With the skyrocketing costs of living and the harder it's become to find deep-cut affordable housing, it's so easy to feel like everyone’s last priority. In this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, host Mya Moniz sits down with Councillor Martin Reid, the new councillor for Mississauga’s Ward 9, which covers Meadowvale and Central Erin Mills. Today, we get to know a little more about who he is, how he wants to his community heal from poverty, and how he plans to use his position in office to amplify the issues that matter to us.
Cllr Reid's Resources: Open Window Hub Follow up with Martin Reid: Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // LinkedIn
Want to Volunteer? Emails us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to volunteer!" and let us know what you're interested in doing with us.
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Renting life is complicated to navigate, especially for independent youth. Even if a tenant is completely within their rights to stay in the face of a threatened eviction, beyond a certain point, upholding your rights gets complicated when your safety is in danger.
In this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, Host Mya Moniz chats with Chev, an anonymous youth client of REST Centres who was illegally evicted by her landlord and roommate earlier this year. She’s here to tell her story, share the warning signs, and offer advice to any youth in similar situations.
Further Reading:
Official Ontario Lease Agreement (Government of Ontario)
Housing Law (Steps to Justice)(Eviction) (Eviction Process)
Call 311 or visit your city's website: (Brampton) (Mississauga) (Caledon)
Registered Two-Dwelling Units (2023): (Brampton) (Mississauga)
Want to Volunteer? Emails us at info@restcentres.org with the subject line, "I want to volunteer!" and let us know what you're interested in doing with us.
Are you interested in joining our Board of Directors? Learn more about the opportunity here!
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One Youth shares her experience in a psychologically abusive household and her escape in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks.
Host Mya Moniz sits with "Vee," an anonymous youth client of REST Centres who shares her story of homelessness risk, and how she found her way to REST Centres and beyond.
Vee's resources:
Reaching Adolescents in Need
Follow up with REST:
Website //Twitter //Facebook //Instagram // YouTube //Linkedin //Support the Organization (Canada Helps)
Let's take our breakdown of food insecurity beyond the dinner table. From social stigma to long-term impacts, food insecurity is about more than just food–especially for the next generation. Kirstin Beardsley, the CEO of Food Banks Canada, a national organization that supports food banks across Canada and advocates for the end of food insecurity, altogether. She shares the history of food banking in Canada, the importance of supporting food banks, and the systemic and societal impacts of food insecurity in the long run
Further Reading:
Household Food Insecurity (UofT) // When Food Becomes the Next Expense You Have to Cut (The Star) // Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Simply Psychology) // Food Banks Canada's Hunger Count (2022) // Kirstin in the News about Food Insecurity (CTV News)
Follow up with Food Banks Canada:
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Follow up with REST:
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Let’s talk about food insecurity, how it intersects with homelessness and poverty, and how the current inflation crisis amplifies the problem tenfold. Christie Lind and Nichole Norris, the Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Programs Manager from the Mississauga Food Bank sit with guest host Daphna Nussbaum from the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness to define food insecurity, share some data and personal anecdotes from their work, and tell all about the ways food insecurity intersects with so many parts of life–especially in today’s financial crisis.Further Reading:Household Food Insecurity (UofT) // When Food Becomes the Next Expense You Have to Cut (The Star) // Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Simply Psychology) // Mississauga Food Bank 2022 Impact ReportFollow up with The Mississauga Food Bank:Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // LinkedInFollow up with The Peel Alliance to End Homelessness:Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // LinkedinFollow up with REST:Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // Linkedin // Support the Organization (Canada Helps)
Let's talk about youth homelessness in 2022 and how REST Centres strives to serve the over two-hundred youth in our care in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks.
Host Mya Moniz sits with REST Program Manager Nikima Leslie and REST Case Manager Jacqui Henry to show how the homeless youth community now needs REST Centres more than ever before.
Follow up with REST:
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This episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks is part four of our four-part series about encampment communities. In this episode, we hear the stories of those actively experiencing homelessness and their closes friends and allies, straight from the encampment communities, themselves. Today, you will hear the real stories of real people from endless walks of life. People just like me. People just like you. People. People. People.
Encampment communities have been around for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated and proliferated their existence in Peel, Canada, and worldwide. At the beginning of the pandemic, the Region of Peel supported the increase in encampment communities, even promising that established communities would not be disturbed. Ontario, as well, was supporting folks by providing municipalities like Peel with emergency funding to provide folks experiencing homelessness with rooms in hotels and motels if they wanted them.
Now, however, in 2022, much of that funding–much of that understanding, that compassion–has run out. Let's talk about that.
Further Reading:
Kitchener-Waterloo Supporting Encampment Communities // A National Strategy for Encampment Communities (Make the Shift) // Precipitated Withdrawal // Donna's Shelter (Ernestine's) // Free Period Products in Peel (new!)
Follow up with REST:
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This episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks is part three of our four-part series about encampment communities. Host Mya Moniz sits with Jimmy Kim and Mari Leesment, two Organizational Leaders with the Blue Tent Church. This religious organization serves people experiencing homelessness in the Region of Peel and works closely with a number of encampment residents. Blue Tent Church serves anyone in need of community, connection, and love. Their weekly congregations and barbecue act as a safe space for folks to come together, give thanks to whomever and whatever they feel, share their stories, and find comfort and trust in each other. Hear about the remarkable transformation of two community leaders and the heartwarming stories of those living rough on the streets of Peel.
Encampment communities have been around for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated and proliferated their existence in Peel, Canada, and worldwide. At the beginning of the pandemic, the Region of Peel supported the increase in encampment communities, even promising that established communities would not be disturbed. Ontario, as well, was supporting folks by providing municipalities like Peel with emergency funding to provide folks experiencing homelessness with rooms in hotels and motels if they wanted them.
Now, however, in 2022, much of that funding–much of that understanding, that compassion–has run out. Let's talk about that.
Further Reading:
Kitchener-Waterloo Supporting Encampment Communities // A National Strategy for Encampment Communities (Make the Shift)
VOTE!
Peel Region Elections
Support us at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon:
Learn More// REST Registration Link
More from REST:
DL4L Registration // World Homeless Day
Follow up with the Blue Tent Church:
Follow up with REST:
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This episode of Homelessness In Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks is the second of a four-part series about Encampment Communities. Host Mya Moniz sits with Michelle Bilek, the National Field Organizer for the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, to discuss how encampment communities intersect with the discussion of human rights, what it means to exercise our human rights while experiencing homelessness, and how the Region of Peel and its citizens can better approach encampment communities to keep them safe and legitimate.
Encampment communities have been around for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated and proliferated their existence in Peel, Canada, and worldwide. At the beginning of the pandemic, the Region of Peel supported the increase in encampment communities, even promising that established communities would not be disturbed. Ontario, as well, was supporting folks by providing municipalities like Peel with emergency funding to provide folks experiencing homelessness with rooms in hotels and motels if they wanted them.
Now, however, in 2022, much of that funding–much of that understanding, that compassion–has run out. Let's talk about that.
Further Reading:
Kitchener-Waterloo Supporting Encampment Communities // A National Strategy for Encampment Communities (Make the Shift)
VOTE!
Peel Region Elections
Support us at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon:
Learn More// REST Registration Link
Follow up with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube
Resources from Michelle:
Peel ACORN
Follow up with REST:
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This episode of Homelessness In Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks is the first of a four-part series about Encampment Communities, where we break down the emotional, political, and practical sides of encampment communities to discuss their importance in the fight against the housing crisis. Host Mya Moniz sits with Nat Kaminski, Harm Reduction Outreach & Peer Programs Supervisor, and Monica Fantini, Harm Reduction & Satellite Programs Outreach Worker of MOYO: Health and Community Services to discuss how hard it is to find your footing after falling into homelessness, and how important it is for the community of Peel to protect encampment communities and their residents.
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Encampment communities have been around for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated and proliferated their existence in Peel, Canada, and worldwide. At the beginning of the pandemic, the Region of Peel supported the increase in encampment communities, even promising that established communities would not be disturbed. Ontario, as well, was supporting folks by providing municipalities like Peel with emergency funding to provide folks experiencing homelessness with rooms in hotels and motels if they wanted them.
Now, however, in 2022, much of that funding–much of that understanding, that compassion–has run out. Let's talk about that.
Further Reading:
Tent Encampments are Popping up around Peel (The Pointer) // Kitchener-Waterloo Supporting Encampment Communities // A National Strategy for Encampment Communities (Make the Shift)
VOTE!
Peel Region Elections
Follow up with MOYO:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram
Resources from Nat:
Peel Helping Hands (Instagram)
Follow up with REST:
Website //Twitter //Facebook //Instagram // YouTube //Linkedin //Support the Show (Canada Helps)
This episode celebrates the one-year anniversary of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks with a sit-down, tell-all with founding member and host, Mya Moniz.
Guest host Shian Smalling chats with Mya about her perspective as REST’s Advocacy Podcast Coordinator; Mya tells us about what it’s like to rent as a young person in a skyrocketing housing crisis, what she’s learned about homelessness, youth homelessness, and surrounding issues, and how the podcast has changed her outlook on life and how she hopes it does the same for others.
Further Reading:
Official Ontario Lease Agreement (Government of Ontario) // Housing Law (Steps to Justice)(Automatic Renewals)(Rent Increases)(Month-to-Month Renting) // Regional Council of Peel (Region of Peel)
Mya's Other Appearances:
Regional Council of Peel Delegation (REST Centres) // News Article (Mississauga News) // Podcast Episode (The Pointer)
Follow up with REST:
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In this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, we discuss social media, its growing prevalence in our lives, the dangers we see and the frustrations we have with it in the context of youth health and wellbeing, and its societal impact, change, and protection. Where is social media useful? Where is it harmful? How have we and others like us seen the detriments of it on our generation and the way that all humans interact with each other, the world, and ourselves?
Listen to Shian Smalling and Rachel Du, two youth interns of REST, share their lived perspectives on social media and how it impacts our ability to connect with others and show compassion.
Further Reading:
Rise of the Doomer (Sarah Z) // Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia) // What is an Existential Crisis? (Medical News Today) // The Echo Chamber Effect on Social Media (PNAS) // Here's How Social Media Affects Your Mental Health (McLean Hospital) // Arab Spring (Britannica) // On Facebook Moderators (personal discretion is advised) (The Verge)(BBC)
Follow up with REST:
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Individualism, socialism, self-love, and more in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks. Host Mya Moniz sits down with REST client Zach, a youth with lived experience with homelessness. His deep-cut survival story about his battles with domestic abuse, his mental health, and homophobia is an honest portrayal of what one youth’s experience with homelessness might look like. Zach also opens up about an issue in our world that haunts him: individualism and its detrimental impact on our society.
Further Reading:
Socialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Psychology) // Socialism (Britannica) // Individualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Psychology) // Individualism (Britannica) // NIMBY-ism (Homeless Hub)
Resources that Zack used:
Peel Youth Village (Region of Peel)
Follow up with REST:
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Let's discuss the unique experiences of youth identifying as part of the LGBTQ2S+ community with stigmatization, discrimination, and homelessness. Host Mya Moniz sits down with Nick Beckett, a youth worker and local homeless youth and LGBTQ2S+ youth advocate. Nick defines the difference between stigmatization and discrimination through the lens of LGBTQ2S+ youth and explains how a youth's identity can uniquely change their life course for the worst.
Further Reading:
LBGTQ (Homeless Hub) // Trans and Non-Binary Youth Accessing Shelters (The 519) // Youth Homelessness Research Findings (The 519) // Improving Intake Processes for LGBTQ2S+ Youth (The 519)
Resources from Nick:
Friends of Ruby // Pflag Canada // Covenant House Toronto // YMCA Sprott House // The 519 // Gerstein Crisis Centre // Life Voice
Follow up with REST:
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Let's discuss the intricate nature of substance use in Peel, how poverty and homelessness intertwine with it, and how harm reduction plays a significant and important role in returning a sense of agency to a highly stigmatized population of Peel.
Host Mya Moniz sits with Adam Chalcraft, the Harm Reduction Supervisor of MOYO: Health and Community Services, to talk about Peel’s drug crisis and how it relates to homelessness, as well as explain the importance of harm reduction as a means to help people who use drugs across Peel. MOYO provides services relating to health promotion, education, social, and support services for those living with, impacted by, and at systemic risk of HIV.
Further Reading:
Comprehensive Opioid Strategy (Region of Peel) // Peel Integrated Drug Strategy (MOYO)
Follow up with MOYO: Health and Community Services
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram
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Let’s discuss the state of Canada’s homelessness policies and promises ahead of the 2022 Ontario provincial election to break down where our priorities should be as citizens.
Host Mya Moniz sits down with Michelle Bilek, National Field Organizer for the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH, an organization set to prevent and end homelessness in Canada. Moniz and Bilek discuss the present difficulties Canada, Ontario, and Peel are dealing with in terms of homelessness and youth homelessness, as well as any current plans of action proposed by Ontario and various paths forward that we would expect from our next elected office.
Further Reading:
Budget 2022 (Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness) // Budget 2022: Affordable Housing (Government of Canada)
Follow up with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube
Additional Resources from Michelle:
Canadian Alliance Conference 2022 // Vote4Housing (Twitter) (Facebook) (Instagram) // Members of Provincial Parliament Contact List
Ontario's Provincial Parties:
Green Party of Ontario // Ontario Liberal Party // Ontario New Democratic Party // Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario // New Blue Ontario
Follow up with REST:
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Learn how Gender-Based violence is intertwined with homelessness in Peel in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks.
Host Mya Moniz sits with Sharon Floyd, Chief Executive Officer of Embrave: Agency to End Violence, an anti-violence organization that provides shelter, counselling, and advocacy supports for women, Two-Spirit, genderqueer, trans and non-binary folks experiencing violence. In this episode, Moniz and Floyd follow up on Janet Dankwa's survival story (Episode 6) with an in-depth discussion defining gender-based violence, what forms it can take, and how different communities are impacted by it.
Further Reading:
European Union and United Nations Spotlight on Violence Against Women and Girls (Relief Web) // Social Norms and Beliefs about Gender-Based Violence (BioMed Central) // The Facts about Gender-Based Violence (Canadian Woman's Foundation)
Follow up with Embrave: Agency to End Violence:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube
Follow up with REST:
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Learn how one strong woman fought against her abuser and her culture to free herself and her children from gender-based violence and domestic abuse.
Host Mya Moniz sits down with Janet Dankwa, founder of I'm Here Foundation,a non-profit charitable organization serving woman and child victims of abuse, newcomers, and seniors experiencing homelessness in the Greater Toronto Area. Janet, herself, is a survivor of gender-based violence and homelessness, and she has joined REST to share her story and unearth the under-told experiences of gender-based violence.
Further Reading:
European Union and United Nations Spotlight on Violence Against Women and Girls (Relief Web) // Social Norms and Beliefs about Gender-Based Violence (BioMed Central) // The Facts about Gender-Based Violence (Canadian Woman's Foundation)
Follow up with Janet Dankwa and I'm Here Foundation:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram
The resources Janet used:
Victim Services of Peel // Ontario Protective Orders
Follow up with REST:
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Learn how two nurses left their full-time stable jobs in the nursing field for a month-to-month contract to provide health care to the homeless in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Host Mya Moniz sits down with the Director of Operations Rasheen Oliver and Nurse in Charge Kimone Rodney of Homeless Health Peel, a nurse-run organization founded in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Moniz, Oliver, and Rodney discuss the importance of providing coordinated, cohesive healthcare to people experiencing homelessness by medical practitioners trained in trauma-informed care, as well as explore the existing gaps in homeless healthcare that currently complicate access to it.
Further Reading:
Social Determinants of Health (World Health Organization)
Follow up with Homeless Health Peel:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram
Follow up with REST:
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Let's discuss the effects of homelessness in the Peel Region, the efforts being made to tackle it and what it will take to end it. Host Mya Moniz interviews Daphna Nussbaum, Project Coordinator and Analyst of the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness, a community collaborative of agencies from across The Region of Peel.
Further Reading:
Peel Region's Housing Development Office (Region of Peel) //Peel Housing and Homeless Plan 2018-2028 (Region of Peel) // NIMBY-ism (Homeless Hub)
Follow up with The Peel Alliance to End Homelessness:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // Linkedin
Follow up with REST:
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Host Mya Moniz interviews Charlene April, founder of Creating Roots Canada, an organization based around helping youth foster care leavers avoid homelessness. Together, they go over Charlene's experiences living in foster care, why many foster youth become homeless after they turn 18, and the support we can take to help prevent it.
Further Reading:
Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness in Canada (Toronto Children's Aid Society) // Foster Care (Homeless Hub)
Follow up with Creating Roots Canada:
Website // Facebook // Instagram
Follow up with REST:
Website //Twitter //Facebook //Instagram // YouTube //Linkedin //Support the Show (Canada Helps) // REST Christmas Cheer Campaign (ENDED)
Let's unpack the homelessness cycle and how it impacts the people on the inside. Host Courtney Harris interviews Nicholas Beckett, a Youth Worker at the Covenant House in Toronto and a Masters of Theology and Urban Development Candidate at the University of Toronto. Nicholas shares anecdotes from his time as a former Youth Council member at REST Centres, his own personal experiences with homelessness, and what it was like.
Further Reading:
Common Causes of Homelessness (Fred Victor Centre) // I'm Homeless. Now What? (Homeless Hub) // Why Some Avoid Shelters (Bowery Residents' Committee)
Follow up with Covenant House Toronto:
Website // Twitter // Facebook // Instagram // YouTube // Linkedin
Follow up with REST:
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Host Mya Moniz interviews the Founder and CEO of Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition (REST Centres), Dagma Koyi. Together, they do a deep dive into understanding the effects of youth homelessness and the work that goes into helping those at-risk.
Further Reading:
Youth Homelessness Overview (Homeless Hub) // Homelessness in Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Follow up with REST:
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