Thank you for the question and the kind words.
Absolutely they should be within education systems. That means really supporting both teachers and educators with education, understanding and coaching for identifying those indicators. It's happening inherently, but they're not trained to do this work. Then there is investing more heavily in guidance counsellors within schools, which is where we're going to have the most success, and in child and family systems. In Alberta, we're receiving a number of referrals from children and family services because they are so overwhelmed, and they are prioritizing younger children, not youth who are experiencing this.
To define hidden homelessness more succinctly, it is the period of time when someone has lost or left their housing and before they present to systems and end up in a shelter. For girls and young women, that's when they're so much at risk for entering survival relationships and experiencing gender-based violence, so by the time they do present to systems, they have experienced very high levels of trauma that is very difficult to recover from.