In the Ottawa area: Community Forum on Homelessness with Plenary session by Sarah Evans, Liz Evans & Anita Hubley on Insite

The Alliance to End Homelessness
INVITATION TO REGISTER
2007 Community Forum on Homelessness

LINKING NATIONAL RESEARCH WITH OTTAWA ACTION AND POLICY
IN HONOUR OF NATIONAL HOUSING DAY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007
Location: University of Ottawa, Tabaret Hall Chapel, 75 Laurier, 1st Floor
Time: 9:00 am–3:30 pm ~ Registration Free ~ Lunch Provided
~ Please Email Registration Form

download from http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/events/2007CommunityForumonHomelessness.cfm

FEATURING OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
The Research Alliance for Canadian Homelessness, Housing, and Health (REACH 3), a collaborative interdisciplinary network of academic investigators and community partners in Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MORNING PLENARY RESEARCH PANELS
Housing Solutions

MODERATED BY AN OTTAWA REACH3 MEMBER

• PANEL MEMBERS
  Liz Evans, BScN, Portland Hotel Society, Vancouver
  – on innovative housing programs that have been created in Vancouver.
  Stephen Hwang, MD, MPH, St.-Michaels Hospital, Toronto
  – on policy and program implications of some of their research
  Lorraine Bentley, MA, Executive Director, Options Bytown, Ottawa
  – reacting with implications for the housing situation in Ottawa.
  Resident, Options Bytown, Ottawa
  – providing a personal perspective on their housing difficulties in Ottawa
  Youth Can Move Forward
• MODERATED BY AN OTTAWA REACH3 MEMBER
  PANEL MEMBERS
  Elise Roy, MD, MSc, Université de Sherbrooke
  – Montreal Street Youth
  Bruce MacLaurin, MSW, PhD (Cand.), University of Calgary
  – Calgary Street Youth
  Catherine Worthington, MSc, PhD, University of Calgary
  – Calgary Street Youth
  Andrea Poncia, Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa
  – HIV/AIDS Educator
  An Ottawa youth community member
  – commenting on the findings and their own experience
  
• INFORMAL LUNCH & NETWORKING CAUCUSES — A 1½ hour opportunity to share ideas from Ottawa and ask more questions of REACH3 members.
  Select your lunch then join one of the LUNCH CAUCUSES, focusing on a variety of topics, facilitated by Ottawa’s Alliance to End Homelessness members.
  
• AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION
  The good, bad and ugly – the InSite Experience
  The "how" behind linking community agencies and researchers
  LED BY SARAH EVANS, LIZ EVANS AND ANITA HUBLEY
  A session describing how the community and the academic's worked together on InSite, Vancouver’s legal supervised injection site.
  Hear about the good, bad and ugly parts of the experience when the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, come together locally, nationally and internationally.
  
• CLOSING ACTIVITY
  WALK FOR HOUSING
  Taking the need for a National Housing Program out to the community!
  
• ALL DAY – SPECIAL EXHIBIT
  A Sound & Photo Installation
  Street Health Stories
  How do you take care of your health when you don’t have a home?
  8 Street Health Stories in large lightbox prints with headphones
  The National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence presents the Street Health Stories installation which gives a human face and voice to Street Health’s statistics.
  Four photographers who have experienced homelessness ~ Adrienne, Jess, Keneisha, and Meghan document the stories of 28 homeless men and women through audio recordings and portrait-photography. Katerina Cizek, a documentary-maker and the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence at an inner-city hospital, teaming up with partners at the frontlines – doctors, nurses and patients – to create collaborative media.
  We gratefully acknowledge support from our Alliance to End Homelessness Members, United Way/Centraide Ottawa, the University of Ottawa & the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, Government of Canada.