A Way Home Peterborough

The 7th poem from the community voices collection: The Joy of Love - Peterborough Youth 2018 Thank you to @SlamPTBO for running the Poetry Slam workshop in October & creating a space for youth to share their stories. #ptbo #poetry #slam #spokenword #youthvoice

Do you have a spare room and would consider helping youth (16-24) who are struggling with their housing? We want to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: http://tinyurl.com/HH-host-survey We are designing a Host Homes program for Peterborough, where volunteer hosts open up their homes to youth who don’t have a safe or sustainable place to stay or who are experiencing homelessness. We want to hear from potential hosts to ensure we can build a program that works for everyone. Host Homes will provide youth with a safe place where their Indigeneity, sexual orientation, gender, racial and ethnocultural identities are respected and celebrated.

Hey Ptbo Youth, we want to hear your ideas for a new program we are designing! Fill out our survey at http://tinyurl.com/HH-Y-survey A Way Home Ptbo is designing a program for youth with youth. Host Homes is a home-based alternative to emergency shelter. Volunteer hosts open up their homes to youth who are struggling with their housing or who don’t have a safe or sustainable place to stay. Youth will be provided with a safe place where their Indigeneity, sexual orientation, gender, racial and ethnocultural identity is respected and celebrated

New to our community voices: Rain From the youth poetry slam workshop with @SlamPTBO

Canada's current response to homelessness is called emergency response, & it's expensive. However, many members in the community recognize the need to focus our efforts on prevention. Preventing homelessness saves lives & money. Learn more here: http://ow.ly/9FS950mdLif #ptbo #canada

Monday was Family day - but what does that mean? A Peterborough youth shares a deep, heartfelt poem reflecting on what family means to them, and their journey to finding family. #allshapesandsizes #foundfamily #freindfamily

Road map wrap up! A big thank you to @homelesshub and @AWayHomeCa for creating such a thorough & tangible approach to ending youth homelessness. Housing Stabilization:https://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/housing-stabilization Duty to Assist: https://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/duty-assist

Community Voice's 4th poem is "Depression" We're grateful to the youth who shared this piece - 28% of youth in the most recent #ptbo PiT Count identified having mental health concerns. http://ow.ly/Xb6F50knqP6 Reminder: tomorrow is #BellLetsTalk. Hear the stories, end the stigma

The third poem on the #AWHP community voice page is up, titled "My Heart and Soul" These poems are the voices of the youth in our community #ptbo. Thanks to @SlamPTBO & the facilitators for creating spaces for youth to share. http://awayhomeptbo.ca/community-voice/

Week 4 spotlight on The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness is: Eviction Prevention. This breakout report covers 5 ways to address #eviction #prevention - check it out here: https://www.homelesshub.ca///files/Eviction_Prevention.pdf @AWayHomeCa @homelesshub - thank you for this work!

3rd week of our highlights on the The Road Map for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness by @homelesshub & @AWayHomeCa Early Intervention is essential, we should be taking action at the first signs youth might be experiencing instability. Full report here:http://ow.ly/2jNs50kcDgQ