Bridging the Transition to Housing

This book presents a detailed exploration of the Bridging the Transition framework, an approach designed to guide practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and advocates on strategies for preventing and ending homelessness. Taking a functional and participation approach to homelessness prevention, chapters describe the processes of leaving homelessness, strategies that can be used at individual, community, and population levels for supporting function and participation in daily life, and guiding principles for practice, research, and policy. This book advances an argument that effective, evidence-based approaches for preventing and ending homelessness are known, yet mobilizing and implementing this knowledge remains a barrier to addressing the growing problem of homelessness and housing precarity in our communities. An ideal resource for a range of health and social care practitioners, researchers, and policymakers who wish to advance homelessness prevention efforts, this book may also be of specific interest to occupational therapists, psychologists, physicians, social workers, peer support specialists, and as a reference text for students in health and social care or research programmes.

Carrie Anne Marshall is a tenured associate professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Western University, Director of the Social Justice in Mental Health Research Lab, and a Western Research Chair in Homelessness Prevention and Mental Health Equity at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. She has a PhD in Rehabilitation Science from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) and is a registered occupational therapist in Ontario, Canada. Rebecca Gewurtz is a tenured associate professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has a PhD from the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and is a registered occupational therapist in Ontario, Canada. Skye Barbic is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) and is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in integrated youth services. She has completed a PhD in Rehabilitation Science at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a registered occupational therapist in British Columbia, Canada.

Section 1: Function and Participation in Daily Activities as a Key Homelessness Prevention Strategy 1. Introduction to the origins and components of the Bridging the Transition Framework 2. Function and participation in daily life activities as a key component of research and practice in homelessness prevention 3. Social Inclusion and its Relevance to Homelessness Prevention & Transitioning out of Homelessness Section 2: the Bridging the Transition Framework and its Various Components 4. Relationship as Foundation 5. The "Four Processes" of Leaving Homelessness 6. Individual Strategies for Supporting Function and Participation in Daily Life 7. Community-Level Strategies for Supporting Function and Participation in Daily Life 8. Population-Level Strategies for Supporting Function and Participation in Daily Life 9. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Social Justice 10. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Housing First 11. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Recovery 12. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Harm Reduction 13. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care 14. Guiding Principles of the Bridging the Transition Framework: Intersectionality Section 3: Application of the Bridging the Transition Framework 15. Applying the Bridging the Transition Framework: Individual Level Approaches 16. Applying the Bridging the Transition Framework: Community Level Approaches 17. Applying the Bridging the Transition Framework: Population Level Approaches Section 4: Key social locations related to homelessness prevention 18. Key Social Locations Relevant to Homelessness Prevention: A Structural and Systems Lens on Preventing Homelessness among Women and Gender-Diverse People in the Global North 19. Key Social Locations Relevant to Homelessness Prevention: Homelessness Among 2SLGBTQIA+ Persons 20. Key Social Locations Relevant to Homelessness Prevention: Homelessness Among Racialized Persons 21. Key Social Locations Relevant to Homelessness Prevention: Homelessness Among Youth 22. Key Social Locations Relevant to Homelessness Prevention: Global South Perspectives Conclusion