{"id":431,"date":"2018-10-23T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/?page_id=431"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:42:59","slug":"evaluation-of-women-and-gender-diverse-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/evaluation-of-women-and-gender-diverse-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Women and Gender Diverse Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Evaluation of Women and Gender Diverse Services\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Evaluation of Shepherds of Good Hope’s Women and Gender Diverse Services Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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From top left clockwise: Tara McWhinney, Phil Nowotny, Zoey Feder, Adje van de Sande, Katherine Occhiuto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From 2017 to 2020, the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship (CSPSC)<\/a> partnered with Shepherds of Good Hope<\/a> to conduct an evaluation of their new Women and Gender Diverse Services program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research indicates that female and transgender individuals experience homelessness differently from men. Factors such as violence against women, trauma, survival sex, poverty and gender-based discrimination affect women in accessing homelessness resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shepherds of Good Hope’s Women and Gender Diverse Services offer an innovative approach to shelter services with a gender and trauma-informed intensive case management program for chronically and episodically homeless women and transgender people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left clockwise: Phil Nowotny, Katharine Larose-Hebert, Zoey Feder, Tara McWhinney, Alicia Kalmanovitch, Sarah Johnston, Adje van de Sande<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Clients work with a gender and trauma-focused case manager that is culturally sensitive to provide stabilization support and housing first services. Clients are also provided extra support through peer support worker services<\/strong>, working closely with women and gender diverse individuals who have previous lived experience of homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goal of the program evaluation was to determine if the new Women and Gender Diverse Services is more effective than the existing Shepherds of Good Hope program in transitioning women and transgender people into long-term secure housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Adje van de Sande\n <\/h2>\n <\/header>\n\n
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