Making the Shift

Making the Shift conducts, funds, and mobilizes cutting-edge research and prototypes promising program models in communities across Canada to prevent and end youth homelessness. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence program. Here’s how Making the Shift is transforming Canada’s response to youth homelessness: • Funding cutting-edge, prevention-focused research projects • Building capacity for prevention across sectors through training, one-on-one coaching, program support, and facilitating dedicated communities of practice • Prototyping and evaluating the effectiveness of evidence-informed program models through community-based demonstration projects • Mobilizing research findings to create policy, practice, and advocacy tools and resources • Expanding the network of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates who are committed to youth homelessness prevention • Leveraging our international community to exchange research knowledge, experience and best practices through our Toronto Centres of Excellence (TCE) designation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe