Health and Home

Includes example course syllabi for the teaching of homelessness as well as reflective statements from educators on the teaching of homelessness. Also includes community resources for the teaching of homelessness; book and film reviews of resources for the teaching of homelessness; and additional teaching resources.

Provides information on the development of a Community Health Plan and Community Health Council for the DTES. Describes the mandate and role of community health councils as part of the regionalization of health. Presents data collected from service agencies and surveys of community members regarding health needs and priorities.

Finds that the problem of homelessness worsened in British Columbia in the eleven years between this conference and Habitat, the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976, where Canadian governments were forced to recognize the crisis in human settlements. The British Columbia government offered little response to the concern of participants regarding a crisis of homelessness in BC. Includes keynote addresses from Stephen Lewis, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, and Seno Cornely, Vice-President of the International Council for Social Welfare. Also includes seven background papers, discussing the international context, defining homelessness, factors contributing to homelessness, the social welfare system, housing policy, temporary shelter, and solutions.

Summarizes the results of community consultation into inner-city revitalization at the end of the Winnipeg Core Area Initiative II, an intergovernmental urban development agreement. Finds that inner city residents are key to sustained "revitalization" efforts, and that if inner city problems are to be successfully addressed, in a preventative rather than remedial way, resources should be allocated to community-based organizations that foster local ownership and responsibility.