by cfigu | May 25, 2020 | Canada Focused, Featured Homepage, Homelessness, Housing, Learning Tools, SK Focused
Kayla DeMong, the Housing Lead for the Saskatoon Inter-Agency Response to COVID-19, discusses the need for housing as a response to homelessness during COVID-19. Kayla discusses the challenges of COVID-19 to the homeless population in Saskatoon and the importance of...
by cfigu | May 21, 2020 | Homelessness, Transportation, Vulnerable Populations
Recommendations from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians on discharge recommendations for people experiencing homelessness, testing, isolation facilities and general coordination of comprehensive management between ER depts., public health, shelters and...
by cfigu | May 21, 2020 | Food Security, Homelessness, Poverty
A website that fully explains homelessness, provides extensive learning and research resources, and stories. Resources include information on health, mental health legal &justice issues, training & employment. The website also contains a poverty library with...
by cfigu | May 21, 2020 | Homelessness, Risk Stratification, Testing Protocols
This guide written by physician and public health experts provides specific recommendations for providing front-line support for the homeless on Covid 19 testing, surveillance, communication, risk stratification, providing isolation shelters and cohorting Covid 19...
by cfigu | May 21, 2020 | Homelessness, Vulnerable Populations
People experiencing homelessness are presented with unique challenges in the event of a pandemic. This list of sixteen considerations and expectations for a community or organization working on pandemic planning pertains particularly to the homeless sector so that...
by cfigu | Apr 26, 2020 | Featured Housing, Homelessness, Housing, SDOH, Vulnerable Populations
Being homeless means you are more vulnerable to the spread of infectious disease than are people with housing. Building on his research concerning pandemics and homelessness during the H1N1 influenza outbreak, Dr. Stephen Gaetz outlines 5 recommendations for...
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