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Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth

Posted by Tristan Remple on July 8, 2024

Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth is an award-winning organization that provides shelter, transitional housing, and programming to help homeless and at-risk youth reach their potential to lead productive, self-sufficient, and healthy lives. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, 123 youth aged 16 to 24 find safe shelter and support in our facilities every night. Eva’s gives youth the tools to transition out of homelessness permanently.


University of Toronto Housing emergency support

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

If you are unable to find temporary housing, stay with family or friends, or if you have any other issues that make it hard to find appropriate housing (short or long-term), we can help. We will work with you and other U of T staff, as appropriate, to help you find housing and continue with your studies.


Toronto Youth Terence Captures his Life in a Homeless Shelter with a Camera Phone

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

22-year-old man in Toronto is given a camera phone to document his experience living in a homeless shelter for youth. He is not enrolled in school at the time but names that he should be, names mental health issues as the primary cause for his situation. CBC's Red Button film series, "a revolutionary approach to storytelling where doc subjects become filmmakers.


Generation Homeless

Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024

Post-secondary age individual homeless in Toronto during shelter-in-place orders at the early stages of the pandemic (not enrolled in school), published by CBC, directed and produced by Jason S. Cipparrone