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A Way Home: Planning to End Youth Homelessness in Kamloops
Carmin MazzottaSocial and Community Development SupervisorCity of Kamloops
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• …an opportunity• Pilot community in a national
initiative to end youth homelessness
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Jan 2013 – visioning session with all of the key stakeholders
“youth should be involved in every step of the process”
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• “novel idea”• Put out a call, create a youth-led
committee• 3 credit crash course on
homelessness• 3 credit crash course on research
ethics• Focus groups and interviews…
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• …and – Voila.
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• Let’s back up…
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• Then…. Challenges: • 3 credit crash course idea and
then adults step out of the way so as not to interfere with this entirely youth-led process….
…didn’t work
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• Reframing:
Youth-Adult Partnership
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Consultation process:• Focus groups with
homeless and at risk youth in the community
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Consultation process:• Key interviews with front line
social workers who were still youth themselves (25 or under)
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Media and public engagement:• Short film on
reflections of the process• Participation in
community events
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• Plan drafted, shared with key stakeholders, youth participants, MCFD
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• And then…. enter the grassroots Youth Supportive Housing Committee• Committee decided to adopt the
plan as their own and became the A Way Home Committee• Perfect marriage: a grassroots
committee, and a plan to provide a strategic framework and structure to guide the committee’s actions
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Launch event • Over 100 people in
attendance• Media, politicians,
community leaders, front line staff, former youth in care
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A Way Home – “Rooted in action:”• Acadia youth housing with
wraparound supports• CHBA partnership• Youth homelessness coordinator