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Responding to Youth Homelessness in the Midst of a Pandemic: Shifting to Collaborative, Prevention-based Services in a Large Urban Setting

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2022

  • Funder

    Making The Shift Inc

  • Principal Investigator

    Amanda Noble, Naomi Thulien

  • Research Location

    Canada

  • Lead Research Institution

    University of Toronto and Covenant House

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adolescent (13 years to 17 years)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Other

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The objective of this study is to understand the impact of COVID-19 on youth experiencing homelessness in Toronto's downtown shelter system, including among youth that moved to a hotel and those that remained in shelter, and to identify recommendations to permanently shift towards a prevention-based response to youth homelessness. Recommendations to permanently shift towards a prevention-based response will be developed, both in anticipation of a second wave of COVID-19 and as a response to youth homelessness in general.