Without A Home: 2019 National Youth Survey

Youth Voices matter. This January, the 2nd Without a Home National Youth Survey will amplify the voices of youth experiencing homelessness across Canada. We know from our real-time data that youth continue to experience homelessness in Edmonton.

Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) in partnership with A Way Home Canada (AWH) are conducting Without a Home – a national survey on youth homelessness. First held in 2015, the study was the first and largest of its kind in Canada, with over 1,100 youth participants.

How crucial is this information?

Without a Home (2016) provided data on the causes and conditions of youths’ experiences of homelessness. Three policy briefs were developed in 2017 based on the findings of Without a Home to help inform federal, provincial, and municipal policy.

These briefs included

The purpose of the survey is to further strengthen youth experiences, improve the supports and services they receive, and guide structural, systems, and policy change.

Youth who live in Edmonton and are currently experiencing homelessness (or have within the last year) can participate and will be compensated $10 via gift card. Youth can participate at the following locations by contacting the listed agency representative.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize we are gathered, in collaboration and with joint purpose, on Treaty 6 territory. This territory is the traditional home and gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples. The nêhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwe), Nakota Isga (Nakota Sioux), Inuit, and Métis, among many others cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to steward it today. As visitors in this territory, we honour the importance of the Treaty and our responsibility to these communities. Only in partnership can we create the changes necessary to end homelessness. It is vital we meaningfully engage and partner with Indigenous people and communities in this work while recognizing and addressing the conditions brought forth by colonialism. Displacement from traditional homelands, systemic racism, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the ongoing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in child welfare, correctional systems, and homelessness are responsibilities we all share.