Call for Abstracts
Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada invites submission of proposals in any one of a number of key themes. The submission deadline is September 30, 2008.
The overall theme of the conference is to encourage a national dialogue on the various issues and potential solutions to housing and homelessness in the diverse communities across the country. A key goal is to establish alliances that will build a national coalition of key stakeholders in providing services and finding solutions.
The main conference themes encompass particular constituents, particular homeless sub-populations, responses to the issues and particular themes or sub-themes. We also encourage submissions that will highlight conference themes from new and emerging technologies such as video documentaries and photo-voice. You are also invited to submit an abstract from any additional presentations relevant to the conference theme.
As a means of encouraging promising practices, innovative solutions, dissemination of research findings and articulation of organizational policy implications, we invite your submission to three formats for abstracts:
Our aim is to provide a broad stage for presentation of all programs, practices and policies relevant to homelessness in Canada. This conference is a rare opportunity for practitioners, administrators, researchers and policy makers to meet collectively, exchange learned wisdom and promising practices and identify future directions for dealing with the multiple aspects of homelessness and housing in the diverse regions of Canada. We encourage all stakeholders to contribute to this national effort.
John Graham, Co-Chair Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff , Co-Chair
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