Rebecca Schiff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5409447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Schiff |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Schiff |
| ASSINATURA | SCHIFF R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lakehead University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2251-1288 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Cooperative Housing
This scoping review evaluates the impact of cooperative housing on health and wellbeing by synthesizing findings from studies published in English and Spanish over a 20-year period (2004–2024). The review aims to assess how cooperative housing models contribute to physical and mental health, reduce social isolation, and foster health equity. A comprehensive search across 12 academic databases yielded 35 studies, which were categorized by study de…
Community-driven approaches to homelessness enumeration
Introduction The 2024 Thunder Bay Point-in-Time (PiT) Count represents an innovative, community-led approach to enumerating people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in a mid-sized Canadian city, co-led by the Lakehead Social Planning Council and the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre. Grounded in cultural inclusivity, the initiative sought to enhance PEH enumeration through locally adapted methodologies.Methods This case study incorporated a …
Using social network analysis to understand the impact of systems integration efforts
Over the past two decades Canadian municipalities have seen the emergence of formalised systems-level collaborative approaches to addressing homelessness and housing issues. The implementation of such approaches has been widespread and to some extent standardised by the Canadian (federal) government through the mandated formation of ‘community advisory boards’ (CABs) and their associated ‘Community Entities (CEs) which direct the use of federal h…
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
Acknowledging colonialism in the room
Indigenous peoples worldwide continue to face health inequities compared to non-Indigenous populations. Frameworks like cultural safety can be used to mitigate these inequities; however, this is not widely implemented in healthcare settings. Thus, additional research into barriers to providing culturally safe care are critical. To address this need, we examined the existing barriers to culturally safe care for Indigenous peoples in Canada, and Mā…
Filling in the gaps
Purpose Due to ongoing inequities in the social determinants of health and systemic barriers, homelessness continues to be a significant concern that disproportionately impacts racialized communities. Despite constituting a small proportion of the population, Black individuals are over-represented among people experiencing homelessness in many Canadian cities. However, although Black homelessness in Canada is a pressing issue, it has received lim…
Mapping Food Policy Groups
Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of bringing together food systems stakeholders across private (e.g., small businesses, industry associations), public (e.g., government, public health, postsecon…
The impact of Covid-19 on research within the homeless services sector
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the challenges of conducting research with homelessness services frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Between 2015 and 2019, the research team surveyed frontline staff in three cities about their psychosocial stressors and needs. In 2020, the authors replicated the previous study and expanded data collection to seven cities across Canada to determine the extent to which the…
Pandemic preparedness and response in service hub cities
Purpose Responding to the needs of homeless and marginally housed persons has been a major component of the Canadian federal and provincial responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, smaller, less-resourced cities and rural regions have been left competing for limited resources (Schiff et al., 2020). The purpose of this paper is to use a case study to examine and highlight information about the capacities and needs of service hub cities during …
Quality of Life and Mental Well-Being
Covid-19 and pandemic planning in the context of rural and remote homelessness
On the outside looking in
Managed alcohol programs in the context of Housing First
Purpose Recently, Managed Alcohol Programs (MAPs have emerged as an alcohol harm reduction model for those living with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD) and experiencing homelessness. There is still a lack of clarity about the role of these programs in relation to Housing First (HF) discourse. The authors examine the role of MAPs within a policy environment that has become dominated by a focus on HF approaches to addressing homelessness. This exa…
Hospital discharge planning for Canadians experiencing homelessness
Purpose People experiencing homelessness are high-users of hospital care in Canada. To better understand the scope of the issue, and how these patients are discharged from hospital, a national survey of key stakeholders was conducted in 2017. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness distributed an online survey to their network of members through e-mail and social media. A sample o…
Rural Homelessness in Western Canada
Limited research and scarce data are available to understand the scope and dynamics of rural homelessness in Canada. As suggested in our previous work, there is a need for rural homelessness research to examine themes from a provincial perspective. The aim of this research was to contribute to expanding the knowledge base on the nature of rural homelessness at a provincial level in the Canadian province of Alberta. In order to understand the dyna…
Housing first
Sobriety, treatment compliance and celibacy have traditionally been behavioral requirements for housing persons who are homeless, regardless of the circumstances leading to loss of home. This remnant of the British Poor Laws is based on the premise that personal and behavioral flaws lead to housing loss and must be remediated before a person can live in permanent housing. A recent approach has reversed this logic and predicates the ability to cha…
Animating the concept of “ethical space”
This paper reports on an innovative process by which the Inuit and First Nations communities of Newfoundland and Labrador confronted and challenged the policies and procedures of the provincial research ethics system. We describe the ways in which these communities engaged with health and university research review administrators to exchange information, identify challenges with existing processes, and outline a strategy for movement forward. We …
Rural Homelessness in Western Canada
Limited research and scarce data are available to understand the scope and dynamics of rural homelessness in Canada. As suggested in our previous work, there is a need for rural homelessness research to examine themes from a provincial perspective. The aim of this research was to contribute to expanding the knowledge base on the nature of rural homelessness at a provincial level in the Canadian province of Alberta. In order to understand the dyna…
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
Covid-19 and pandemic planning in the context of rural and remote homelessness
Hospital discharge planning for Canadians experiencing homelessness
Purpose People experiencing homelessness are high-users of hospital care in Canada. To better understand the scope of the issue, and how these patients are discharged from hospital, a national survey of key stakeholders was conducted in 2017. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness distributed an online survey to their network of members through e-mail and social media. A sample o…
Quality of Life and Mental Well-Being
Housing first
Sobriety, treatment compliance and celibacy have traditionally been behavioral requirements for housing persons who are homeless, regardless of the circumstances leading to loss of home. This remnant of the British Poor Laws is based on the premise that personal and behavioral flaws lead to housing loss and must be remediated before a person can live in permanent housing. A recent approach has reversed this logic and predicates the ability to cha…
Animating the concept of “ethical space”
This paper reports on an innovative process by which the Inuit and First Nations communities of Newfoundland and Labrador confronted and challenged the policies and procedures of the provincial research ethics system. We describe the ways in which these communities engaged with health and university research review administrators to exchange information, identify challenges with existing processes, and outline a strategy for movement forward. We …
Rural Homelessness in Western Canada
Limited research and scarce data are available to understand the scope and dynamics of rural homelessness in Canada. As suggested in our previous work, there is a need for rural homelessness research to examine themes from a provincial perspective. The aim of this research was to contribute to expanding the knowledge base on the nature of rural homelessness at a provincial level in the Canadian province of Alberta. In order to understand the dyna…
Hospital discharge planning for Canadians experiencing homelessness
Purpose People experiencing homelessness are high-users of hospital care in Canada. To better understand the scope of the issue, and how these patients are discharged from hospital, a national survey of key stakeholders was conducted in 2017. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness distributed an online survey to their network of members through e-mail and social media. A sample o…
On the outside looking in
Managed alcohol programs in the context of Housing First
Purpose Recently, Managed Alcohol Programs (MAPs have emerged as an alcohol harm reduction model for those living with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD) and experiencing homelessness. There is still a lack of clarity about the role of these programs in relation to Housing First (HF) discourse. The authors examine the role of MAPs within a policy environment that has become dominated by a focus on HF approaches to addressing homelessness. This exa…
Quality of Life and Mental Well-Being
Covid-19 and pandemic planning in the context of rural and remote homelessness
Mapping Food Policy Groups
Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of bringing together food systems stakeholders across private (e.g., small businesses, industry associations), public (e.g., government, public health, postsecon…
The impact of Covid-19 on research within the homeless services sector
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the challenges of conducting research with homelessness services frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Between 2015 and 2019, the research team surveyed frontline staff in three cities about their psychosocial stressors and needs. In 2020, the authors replicated the previous study and expanded data collection to seven cities across Canada to determine the extent to which the…
Pandemic preparedness and response in service hub cities
Purpose Responding to the needs of homeless and marginally housed persons has been a major component of the Canadian federal and provincial responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, smaller, less-resourced cities and rural regions have been left competing for limited resources (Schiff et al., 2020). The purpose of this paper is to use a case study to examine and highlight information about the capacities and needs of service hub cities during …
Acknowledging colonialism in the room
Indigenous peoples worldwide continue to face health inequities compared to non-Indigenous populations. Frameworks like cultural safety can be used to mitigate these inequities; however, this is not widely implemented in healthcare settings. Thus, additional research into barriers to providing culturally safe care are critical. To address this need, we examined the existing barriers to culturally safe care for Indigenous peoples in Canada, and Mā…
Filling in the gaps
Purpose Due to ongoing inequities in the social determinants of health and systemic barriers, homelessness continues to be a significant concern that disproportionately impacts racialized communities. Despite constituting a small proportion of the population, Black individuals are over-represented among people experiencing homelessness in many Canadian cities. However, although Black homelessness in Canada is a pressing issue, it has received lim…
Using social network analysis to understand the impact of systems integration efforts
Over the past two decades Canadian municipalities have seen the emergence of formalised systems-level collaborative approaches to addressing homelessness and housing issues. The implementation of such approaches has been widespread and to some extent standardised by the Canadian (federal) government through the mandated formation of ‘community advisory boards’ (CABs) and their associated ‘Community Entities (CEs) which direct the use of federal h…
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy agenda and interventions in many countries. However, there is no cohesive and shared understanding of the characteristics and types of vulnerable households and housing situations, nor the drivers and consequences of different forms of vulnerability. T…
Cooperative Housing
This scoping review evaluates the impact of cooperative housing on health and wellbeing by synthesizing findings from studies published in English and Spanish over a 20-year period (2004–2024). The review aims to assess how cooperative housing models contribute to physical and mental health, reduce social isolation, and foster health equity. A comprehensive search across 12 academic databases yielded 35 studies, which were categorized by study de…
Community-driven approaches to homelessness enumeration
Introduction The 2024 Thunder Bay Point-in-Time (PiT) Count represents an innovative, community-led approach to enumerating people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in a mid-sized Canadian city, co-led by the Lakehead Social Planning Council and the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre. Grounded in cultural inclusivity, the initiative sought to enhance PEH enumeration through locally adapted methodologies.Methods This case study incorporated a …
Political science (13 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras)