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Building on Collaboration: Learnings from Toronto’s Supportive Housing System

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Mental health supportive housing relies on municipal-health sector collaboration. It straddles the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) mandate of coordinating integrated local health systems and the municipal responsibility for local housing and homelessness initiatives. In recent years, municipalities and LHINs have initiated collaborative work to address the overlap of their roles in supportive housing. However, […]

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Seeking Supportive Housing: Characteristics, Needs and Outcomes of Applicants to The Access Point – Summary Report

Frank Sirotich, Anna Durbin, Greg Suttor, Seong-gee Um and Lin Fang |

Supportive housing is the key to ending chronic homelessness, and provides a stable foundation for people living with mental illness or addictions. In Toronto, people apply for this housing through The Access Point, a community agency that works with housing providers. More than 14,000 people are on this waiting list. What are the characteristics of […]

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Seeking Supportive Housing: Characteristics, Needs and Outcomes of Applicants to The Access Point – Highlights

Frank Sirotich, Anna Durbin, Greg Suttor, Seong-gee Um and Lin Fang |

Supportive housing is the key to ending chronic homelessness, and provides a stable foundation for people living with mental illness or addictions. In Toronto, people apply for this housing through The Access Point, a community agency that works with housing providers. More than 14,000 people are on this waiting list. What are the characteristics of […]

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Supportive Housing Helps

Alice de Wolff |

Supportive housing is a proven component of the range of services that can help people facing health challenges to continue to live in the community. But it has occasionally faced local opposition. In 2008, Wellesley Institue funded research on the impact of supportive housing on neighbourhoods as a way to provide answers to people’s questions. […]

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Breaking Ground: Exploring The Role Of Peer Support In Supportive Housing

Habitat Services |

Adults with serious mental health problems require many supports to help them function at their best and enjoy a decent quality of life.  Crucial to the recovery of this population is access to stable, supportive housing. Habitat Services, a non-profit community mental health agency, funds and monitors private sector boarding home accommodations and provides on-site housing […]

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Critical Characteristics Of Supported Housing

Bonnie Kirsh |

Principal Organizations: University of Toronto Partner Organizations: Toronto Branch ,Canadian Mental Health Association Principal Investigator(s): Bonnie Kirsh, PhD Critical Characteristics of Supported Housing: Findings from the Literature, Residents, and Service Providers lays the foundation for the development of principles that can be used to guide Supported Housing programming and that can continue to be examined in […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.