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Another Loss for Team Canada: How Americanization Has Been Stealing Canadian Identity in Sport since the 1930s
Get PDFSpeech-Language Pathologists Work in the Field: The Importance of Cultural Awareness When Providing Palliative Care
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Perception of Social and Physical Environmental Risk Factors Affecting Women Experiencing Homelessness: A Mixed Method Study
Get PDFHomeless people in general confront many difficulties that make their lives very challenging. However, when it comes to women experiencing homelessness, those challenges can threaten their well-being by increasing the risk of victimization and decreasing the levels of personal safety. This research project has three aims: first, to better understand the link between victimization and social and physical environment as it relates to homeless women; second, to recognize which aspects of the social and physical environment homeless women find threatening and difficult to overcome; and third, to examine the areas of conflict within the coexistence of homeless women in a mixed-gender transitional shelter. This study is based on a mixed-method approach. The data are drawn from ten in-depth interviews and secondary survey data collected by Ozanam Manor, a faith-based agency. The qualitative analysis uses a naturalistic perspective to study homeless women in their living settings in a transitional shelter and provides a rich, contextualized understanding of homeless women’s perception of risk. For the quantitative analysis, we also analyzed secondary survey data collected by Ozanam Manor and used correlation analyses to understand the relationship between social environments and respondents’ safety perceptions. Our findings reported that the lives of the participants were not characterized by a unique challenge, but rather by a combination of interconnected challenges that perpetuated their situations of homelessness
