Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Making the Shift is pleased to announce the launch of the second annual Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards Program.
Homelessness prevention refers to policies, practices, and interventions that reduce the likelihood that someone will experience homelessness. It also means providing those who have been homeless with the necessary resources and supports to stabilize their housing, enhance integration and social inclusion, and ultimately reduce the risk of the recurrence of homelessness.
What is Youth Homelessness Prevention?
- The COH’s definition of prevention underpins the Making the Shift work, including the Awards Program. Homelessness prevention refers to policies, practices, and interventions that reduce the likelihood that someone will experience homelessness. It also means providing those who have been homeless with the necessary resources and supports to stabilize their housing, enhance integration and social inclusion, and ultimately reduce the risk of the recurrence of homelessness.
- The COH and A Way Home Canada developed the Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness to not only define youth homelessness prevention, but also to showcase examples of prevention in action across a number of domains in both Canada and around the world. The Roadmap is critical, as it also points to who is responsible for what in the collective efforts to prevent youth homelessness. For the purposes of the Making the Shift Awards, they will use the Roadmap to define the parameters of prevention.
Benefits
- With support from Canada Life, they are pleased to offer two official awards, along with possible honorary mentions, to Canadian organizations and collaborations. Winners will be celebrated in the following ways:
- Winners will each receive a cash prize of $10,000, presented by Canada Life.
- Winners will be showcased in a public webinar.
- Winners will be invited to share their work in conference presentations as opportunities arise.
- Winners will be invited to join the National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness, if they are not already members.
- Winners will receive a mini case study of their initiative, produced by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. The case studies will be published in the Homeless Hub newsletter, with a national and international reach of more than 20,000 subscribers.
- Winners will be showcased in an updated edition of the Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness.
- Organizations may self-nominate their own program or initiative, or nominate another organization or initiative.
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions that can demonstrate preventative activity(ies) aiming to stabilize housing, improve health and wellbeing, promote social inclusion, and contribute to better long-term outcomes for youth and their families.
- Submissions that demonstrate working with youth between 13 and 24 years of age.
For more information, visit https://makingtheshiftinc.ca/youth-homelessness-prevention-awards-2022/