We’re engaging people with lived experience, frontline workers, system managers, and other stakeholders in a frank and inclusive discussion about Peterborough’s homeless-serving system. What’s working? What’s not? How can we improve?

United Way Peterborough & District and the Government of Canada’s Reaching Home program.

In this project, we’re mapping the complex data systems, data processes and data policies that govern young people’s trajectories into and out of homelessness.

Our goal? To make these systems more transparent, more user-friendly and more equitable.

Jointly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab.

As Peterborough’s housing and homelessness crisis intensifies, our Building From Experience research team is documenting the rules and procedures that dictate how housing and shelter resources are distributed in Peterborough.

Our goal? To read these rules and procedures in the context of our legislated obligation to realize the progressive right to housing. Are human rights being respected in Peterborough? Can we do better?

With funding from the Government of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

This participatory research project supported the formation of the Youth Action Research Revolution (YARR), a group of young researchers with experience of homelessness in Montreal.

YARR performed ethnographic research among street-involved youth to determine how public institutions such as schools, hospitals and jails exacerbate young people’s housing struggles — and how these institutions can do better.

With funding from the Government of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Two days of inquiry, reflection, and collaborative learning focused on Institutional Ethnography, the sociology for people developed by Dorothy Smith

A participatory study to document everyday care work in Peterborough and learn how parents can be supported to raise healthy children.

We’re collaborating to develop community-driven data collection initiatives to address the needs of local organizations.