The final report for Coming Together Project shares the voices and insights of women and transwomen with experiences of homelessness. This report expands on an earlier community report on a Community-Based Research project using staged photography.
Download the final report here.
The Coming Together was part of the collaborative project “Homelessness – Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research”. The policy report from the collaborative presents findings and recommendations from eight community-based, participatory research projects on homelessness in Toronto; six of the eight projects used arts-informed or arts-based research methods.
More information at http://www.artsandhomeless.com/
Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support
Principal Organization: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto
Partner Organizations: Regent Park Community Health Centre, Sistering – a Woman’s Place
Principal Investigator: Izumi Sakamoto, Ph.D
Authors: Izumi Sakamoto, Josie Ricciardi, Jen Plyler, Natalie Wood, Aisha Chapra, Matthew Chin, Billie Allan, Rose Camero & Monica Nunes
Participants: Women and transwomen with experiences of homelessness and marginal housing
Research Methods: arts-based, community-based participatory action research: art-making sessions, staged photography, interviews, focus groups, annotated bibliography
More information at http://www.comingtogether.ca/
To read a journal article discussing the findings of the Coming Together project focusing on the experiences of transwomen who are homeless, please click on the link below.
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/glip/glip_review#current
Sakamoto, I., Chin, M., Chapra, A. & Ricciardi, J. (2009) A ‘normative’ homeless woman?: Marginalisation, emotional injury and social support of transwomen experiencing homelessness. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology 5(1): 2-19.
