Veterans Affairs committee  It's for homelessness. Veterans would be identified as well.

Veterans Affairs committee  Right now we're working with 38 communities around the country through our 20,000 homes campaign. Part of that process is something called a by-name list. It is real-time, person-specific data on everyone experiencing homelessness. That's an approach that has been used successfu

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll start. I think there is an assumption that there is a correlation between medical discharge and homelessness. That's not necessarily always the case. We need to have a bit better evidence to suggest that. I also think that when people are released from the forces, there

Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for the opportunity. I'm pleased to be here speaking to you from Calgary, from the traditional territories of the people of Treaty 7 in southern Alberta. The city of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, region III. I'm here in

Status of Women committee  I'll answer that question, but I also want to address the earlier point about staying focused on domestic violence shelters. I take the point of the focus of the committee, but the fact of the matter is that the people in those shelters are all homeless. It's important to think a

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of different strategies that you could use. It's important to remember that a lot of these women remain hidden, and we need to think about why. I think they're hidden because they don't want to risk losing their children to child and family services authorities—c

Status of Women committee  Child welfare systems in the provinces are a superhighway into homelessness for children who are in those systems. They are often more of a threat than a help to vulnerable women with their children, so they won't access those systems at all.

Status of Women committee  Again, it comes down to working directly with the community, working directly with the individuals, understanding their unique needs and providing services, supports and housing that are safe to them. For example, when you look at the homeless system and youth homelessness in p

Status of Women committee  The homeless system and the domestic violence system in every community, including Calgary, operate as completely separate systems. They don't communicate a whole lot. There has been very good work here in trying to connect those two systems. To speak of federal jurisdiction, I

Status of Women committee  How long have we got?

Status of Women committee  I think you're exactly right. I will give you an example of one of the things that we're learning. We've seen the housing first approach applied at the community housing program at Discovery House in Calgary. We've also seen that model replicated in, I think, eight or nine differ

Status of Women committee  Lise spoke to this in terms of the funding for these shelters and for the staff, noting how different it can be from coast to coast. I want to emphasize the point that one of my colleagues made, which is that the chronic underfunding of women's programs and services is in itsel

Status of Women committee  I would say so. One of the key differences is the level of violence, I think, that women will experience when they're homeless, and also their vulnerability on the streets and in homeless systems, but I think it's important to understand that we tend to look at domestic violenc

Status of Women committee  I think it's a mistake to think about this as a homogeneous population. These are individual women with individual needs. They're often the leaders of families. What's challenging about homelessness in Canada, especially for women, is that we don't actually know.... When you look

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of things to consider. First is the level of violent victimization. Second, they're often with children or separated from their children. Third, they also often find themselves sexually exploited. Fourth, they find that the difference is that the homeless systems