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The Rural Ontario Institute has commenced a research study to explore hidden homelessness in rural and northern Ontario.  The study will identify promising local strategies that are responding to this issue and will include interviews with individuals with “lived experience” of homelessness in rural and northern settings. The project is being sponsored under the Province’s Municipal Research and Analysis Grant.

A research team has been formed which will review current homelessness strategies, talk to service managers (Consolidated Municipal Service Managers and District Social Services Administration Boards) and  service providers and interview individuals who have experienced homelessness in rural and northern settings.   Members of the research team include the Project Manager Fay Martin, Carol Kauppi of Laurentian University, Bill O’Grady of the University of Guelph, Rebecca Schiff of Lakehead University and Petra Wolfbeiss from the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association.  Read the full communique about the project here:

Communique- Approved for release