Thank you Dr. Erin Dej for offering this thought provoking session in the SJMH Lab speaker series entitled "Homelessness, Visibility, and Misplaced Responses for Addressing the Crisis in Mid-Sized Cities". Check it out here if you missed it! Please share in your networks! youtu.be/mrulnsosE0U?...

Come out to hear Dr. Erin Dej, Associate Professor, Wilfred Laurier University, discuss her research on the criminalization of homelessness December 10 at 10am EST: "Homelessness, visibility, and mis-placed responses for addressing the crisis in mid-size cities" Register here: wix.to/XmrNbxT

Check out one of the interviews I did this week with CBC New Brunswick on sleeping cabins and tiny homes as a response to homelessness. Share among your networks! Thanks, CBC for inviting a critical perspective on this issue. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Check it out! New pub from #SJMHLab exploring #HousingQuality following #Homelessness: “I just don’t know what will be better other than an apartment which I can’t afford”: Experiences of housing quality following homelessness in Ontario, Canada journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...

@aoc.bsky.social is legend in her own time. Watching on with admiration from Canada, and glad that good people are pointing out thr thuggery of the Trump administration in this deeply concerning bill. My heart is with the working people in the USA. www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

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Thanks @whigstandard.bsky.social for publishing this article summing up some observations on the #housing and #homelessness crisis in which we are currently embedded. We need to finally commit to solutions rather than maintaining this problem as it grows. www.thewhig.com/opinion/home...

Important article highlighting what has started and what is to come. Fascism is only going to grow in Canada if we don't hold one another to account. We have a responsibility to one another when we see online media that is characterized by disinformation. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-coming...

If you want to educate yourself on #electoralreform, there are alternatives to #firstpastthepost. These may just help to address increasing #polarization, and lead to a more democratic system where a diversity of voices can be heard. Here is a primer: electoral-reform.org.uk/what-are-the...

Lovely to receive this in the mail today! Such an honour to contribute this chapter on the role of #neighbourhoods and #communities in influencing our #mentalhealth. Particularly to collaborate with "the" #TerryKrupa, who has been such an important mentor to me and so many others. Check it out!

Just released today - another video on the guiding principles of the #BridgingTheTransitionFramework. In this video, community advocates, service providers and researchers discuss the guiding principle of #intersectionality and its importance for #homelessnessprevention . youtu.be/ezkalkLybqk?...

Just released today - the next video in our series on the #BridgingTheTransitionFramework for #HomelessnessPrevention. This video focuses on the importance of #HarmReduction in housing and homelessness services. Share broadly in your networks! youtu.be/idYOQd2Ki20?...

Interested in hearing more about #HomelessnessPrevention? #SJMHLab at #WesternUniversity is hosting a one-day workshop on the #BridgingTheTransitionFramework in beautiful #kingstonontario on May 23, 2025. Find out more and register here: BridgingTheTransition.eventbrite.ca

Such an important issue with a haunting message about the Canadian economy. Please listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5rqR...

Sharing a new video in a series on evidence-informed practices in #MentalHealth, #Poverty and #Homelessness. This video profiles #ReViveCenter in #ChicagoIllinois, featuring #PeerSupport and #OccupationalTherapy in the support of persons who experience homelessness. youtu.be/0CEFZA5cF0U?...

Proud to share this recent publication led by #RebeccaGoldszmidt, a recent graduate from #WesternUniversity. This important work focuses on #trauma experienced by #olderadults during #homelessness. Check it out and share broadly in your networks! academic.oup.com/gerontologis...

Excited to be able to share the next video in our series on the #BridgingTheTransition framework. In this video, policymakers and community leaders discuss the importance of #Community level approaches for #HomelessnessPrevention. Please share broadly in your networks! youtu.be/mN4Yfun-PHo?...

Really proud to share this important article just published by #ElhamJavadizadeh et al. on the importance of attending to the #mentalhealth of #international #graduatestudents. Please share broadly in your networks! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Lovely to spend the past week in beautiful Chicago filming videos for the #BridgingTheTransition workshop at #ReViveCentreForHousingandHealing and delivering a workshop at #RushUniversity. Thanks so much for your kindness and putting up with my shenanigans all week Andrea and Laura et al.! 😉

Just published today - The second video in a series on the #BridgingTheTransition framework. This one explores the relationship as a foundation for working with individuals, communities and populations on #HomelessnessPrevention. Please share broadly! youtu.be/-7I79-Lifug?...

Really proud to share the first video in a series on the #BridgingTheTransitionFramework. This video features people with lived experience exploring priorities across the #transition to #housing following #homelessness. Share broadly in your networks! Check it out here: youtu.be/vLqQE6cDLh4?...

Really proud that I get to work with 'the' #DebbieRudman at #WesternUniversity. Check out this great coverage of her research from CBC on the concept of #ThirdPlaces and the importance of #belonging in our communities for #health and #wellbeing: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Such important work! We can do better by treating people living with substance use disorders with kindness and compassion. #harmreduction. Check it out:

Check out this video featuring #BrooklynWard, a master's student in the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences program at #WesternUniversity in #LondonOn. This video focuses on the #stigma of #substanceuse among persons experiencing #homelessness. Please share in your networks! youtu.be/yk2FdV4sCxM?...

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Check out this great coverage on research by #shaunaperez on #moraldistress and #moralinjuy among service providers in #housing and #homelessness services: www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...

Interested in #MotivationalInterviewing #MI in #MentalHealth? I'm offering another 2-day virtual workshop on Feb 18 & 19, 2025. Check out the registration details here and feel free to share in your networks: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1115821103...

Homelessness is costly. The responses also have costs. In this opinion article, Dr. Andrew Boozary asks: How do we want to pay and what do we want to pay for? (www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...).

Check out this video featuring a wonderful MSc student in my lab and service provider in the #kingston community. Her research focuses on #moraldistress and #moralinjury among #sericeproviders in #housing and #homelessness services. Please share broadly in your networks! youtu.be/jFVl9PsX3nM?...

How awesome is this guy? Thanks for all you're doing to support people to survive while unhoused in Toronto: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New pub from www.sjmhlab.com by #ShaunaPerez, @nkerman.bsky.social. et al. @westernuniversity.bsky.social. Check it out here: "When I can’t help, I suffer: A scoping review of moral distress in service providers working with persons experiencing homelessness" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE! Available now as open access, online first at: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ij... This discussion piece presents how Complex Care Housing is a model aimed at filling gaps in the current housing and care continuum for people with mental health and substance use challenges.

As requested, I have created the 'Ending Homelessness Starter Pack' Please let me know as more folks join, or people I have missed: go.bsky.app/9GU6qdM

There you have it. Another solution to our #homelessness crisis. Land for #deeplyaffordable #housing for people forced to live in shelters and encampments.

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