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Total | Nunavut | NWT | Yukon | |
n=61 | n=20 | n=20 | n=21 | |
Number of services reported | ||||
Mean | 7.3 | 5.6 | 6.6 | 9.6 |
Range | (3–15) | (3–11) | (3–15) | (4–12) |
Type of service (n, %) | ||||
Counselling for mental health or addictions concerns | 46 (75%) | 15 (75%) | 13 (65%) | 18 (86%) |
Family violence shelter | 44 (72%) | 18 (90%) | 8 (40%) | 18 (86%) |
Income Support | 40 (66%) | 7 (35%) | 16 (80%) | 17 (81%) |
Housing Authority or other property management | 39 (64%) | 12 (60%) | 12 (60%) | 15 (71%) |
Social service (e.g. Family and Child Services) | 38 (62%) | 14 (70%) | 13 (65%) | 11 (52%) |
Homelessness shelter | 33 (54%) | 9 (45%) | 12 (60%) | 12 (57%) |
Police/justice | 29 (48%) | 10 (50%) | 8 (40%) | 11 (52%) |
Other community-based resource | 28 (46%) | 1 (5%) | 9 (45%) | 18 (86%) |
Food-based service | 20 (33%) | 2 (10%) | 3 (15%) | 15 (71%) |
Educational programming | 17 (28%) | 1 (5%) | 10 (50%) | 6 (29%) |
Hospital | 16 (26%) | 4 (20%) | 4 (20%) | 8 (38%) |
Indigenous cultural or wellness service | 15 (25%) | 3 (15%) | 1 (5%) | 11 (52%) |
Primary health care/nurses station | 14 (23%) | 3 (15%) | 7 (35%) | 4 (19%) |
In-patient addiction or mental health treatment (in Territory) | 11 (18%) | N/A | 6 (30%) | 5 (24%) |
Alcoholics Anonymous | 11 (18%) | 2 (10%) | 4 (20%) | 5 (24%) |
In-patient addiction or mental health treatment (out of Territory) | 10 (16%) | 5 (25%) | 1 (5%) | 4 (19%) |
Service for disability support | 9 (15%) | 1 (5%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (38%) |
Harm reduction service | 8 (13%) | N/A | N/A | 8 (38%) |
Alcohol or drug detox | 7 (11%) | N/A | 1 (5%) | 6 (29%) |
Church | 5 (8%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (15%) | 2 (10%) |
Legal Aid | 5 (8%) | 3 (15%) | 1 (5%) | 1 (5%) |
Crisis line | 2 (3%) | 2 (10%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
Below: Four overarching themes emerged from women's descriptions of the trajectory of their homelessness and their experience of accessing services: (a) unresolved trauma, (b) poverty and social exclusion, (c) inability to find and maintain housing and (d) ineffective services. Participants described how a number of vicious cycles made it difficult to find housing, food security and to heal emotionally
Full article at: http://goo.gl/G9wkPv
By: Schmidt R1, Hrenchuk C2, Bopp J3, Poole N4.
1BC Centre
of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Rose.schmidt@cw.bc.ca.
2Yukon
Status of Women Council, Whitehorse, YT, Canada.
3Four Worlds
Centre for Development Learning, Cochrane, AB, Canada.
4BC Centre
of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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