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2023-09-09, 11 : 02 AM CINT908, Module 1 - Course Overview Page 1 of 12 https://de.torontomu.ca/de_courses/templates/m/ ? c=8D9A6E908ED2B731FB96151D9BB94D49&m=1&p=203344 Course Overview Welcome to CINT908: Homelessness in Canadian Society. A central focus of this course is to understand the risk factors that create pathways to – and often work to entrench someone in – a state of homelessness. This course will get you thinking about how these risk factors connect and interact and the impact of inequality. An overall goal for this course is for you to develop strategies to interrupt these pathways so that you leave this course with an academic and professional toolkit that aims to reduce or even work toward ending homelessness within a Canadian context. Your work in this course is meant to leave you inspired, motivated, and ready to implement this work within your own careers, academic lives, and communities! Overview Video The following video provides an overview of the approach this course takes and the key topics that are covered (i.e., pathways, trauma, politics, interventions, and specific populations). Course Overview TMU Video | Duration: 04:48
2023-09-09, 11 : 02 AM CINT908, Module 1 - Course Overview Page 2 of 12 https://de.torontomu.ca/de_courses/templates/m/ ? c=8D9A6E908ED2B731FB96151D9BB94D49&m=1&p=203344 Key Point It is important to understand ending homelessness not as something relegated to specific professions, policies, or programs but rather as an academic and professional responsibility each of us has and can take on in multiple ways. Therefore, the diverse professional and academic backgrounds each of you brings to this course offers a great opportunity to learn, refine, and cultivate a vast array of intervention strategies to address identified risk factors. Reminders This course is asynchronous and self-paced, which means that you will be working through each module (i.e., the content for the week) on your own schedule. Module 1 starts on a Monday, but all subsequent modules start on Saturday. You should finish reading through the content, taking notes, and doing the assignments by Friday at 11:59 pm EST each week. Even though the course is self-paced, there is instructor support and peer collaboration along the way! Each module will start with an instructor-led Guiding Insights video, and you will be encouraged to engage with your peers through both graded and ungraded discussion activities. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with a small group of your peers in Module 12 to apply what you have learned throughout the course and develop a checklist tool that you can use to inform professional, academic, and/or advocacy work beyond this course. Make sure to review the Course Outline, which you can access by clicking on "Course Materials" in the top navigation bar in D2L and then clicking on "Course Outline" in the table of contents. Module 1 Introduction In this first module, you will examine the socio-ecological model and learn how a combination of individual and structural risk factors can lead to homelessness. The focus will be on Indigenous perspectives on housing insecurity and homelessness and how colonialism and racism continue to impact First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
2023-09-09, 11 : 02 AM CINT908, Module 1 - Course Overview Page 3 of 12 https://de.torontomu.ca/de_courses/templates/m/ ? c=8D9A6E908ED2B731FB96151D9BB94D49&m=1&p=203344 Topics and Learning Objectives Topics Ecological systems theory and homelessness The individual and structural risk factors of homelessness Indigenous realities, perspectives, and community-based, self-determined intervention strategies in relation to housing insecurity and homelessness Learning Objectives By the end of this module, you should be able to: Identify the individual and structural risk factors that lead to homelessness in Canada Explain how individual and structural risk factors interact to create pathways to homelessness in Canada Identify several effects that colonization and neo-colonization have on Indigenous communities within Canada and how this influences homelessness and housing insecurity for these populations Identify one or more Indigenous perspectives on homelessness and how to address it Guiding Insights Watch the short video below, which provides an introduction to ecological systems theory and risk factors for homelessness. Module 1 TMU Video | Duration: 06:50
2023-09-09, 11 : 02 AM CINT908, Module 1 - Course Overview Page 4 of 12 https://de.torontomu.ca/de_courses/templates/m/ ? c=8D9A6E908ED2B731FB96151D9BB94D49&m=1&p=203344 Next, you will be taking a closer look at ecological systems theory and risk factors for homelessness through a variety of media: an infographic, videos, and an interactive learning object. Ecological Systems Theory and Homelessness Urie Bronfenbrenner developed the ecological systems theory to explain how a person’s various environments can impact their health and well-being ( Bronfenbrenner, 1992 ). Figure 1.1 below is a visual representation of Bronfenbrenner's model, which informed his theory. This model offers a way of understanding how various risk factors emerge from multiple environments and creates and/or intensifies an individual’s vulnerability to homelessness.
2023-09-09, 11 : 02 AM CINT908, Module 1 - Course Overview Page 5 of 12 https://de.torontomu.ca/de_courses/templates/m/ ? c=8D9A6E908ED2B731FB96151D9BB94D49&m=1&p=203344 Figure 1.1. Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological model Source: Cormac404 WordPress site Long Description See the Download box below for a PDF infographic that explains Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory and model in the context of homelessness. Download You can download an ecological systems theory infographic [PDF] that explains each of the rings in Bronfenbrenner’s model and how they relate to homelessness and this course. The infographic was created by Julie James, Toronto Metropolitan University.
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