Bridging the Transition to Housing: A Homelessness Prevention Framework

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.