MAKING THE SHIFT

The Making the Shift vision began in 2017 with a community-research project funded by the Government of Canada's Youth Employment and Skills Strategy. This project, which continues today as the Demonstration Lab of Making the Shift, has developed, implemented, and evaluated four promising programs for youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The excitement and potential of this project, along with encouragement and support of York University, prompted co-leaders Dr. Stephen Gaetz (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) and Melanie Redman (A Way Home Canada) to apply for Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program. NCEs are mandated to develop an academically led research network that focuses on creating collaborative solutions to issues that are critical to Canadians and to the world. MtS officially incorporated as an NCE on February 27, 2019. In 2020, we successfully advocated to have York University (and Making the Shift as a partner) designated as a UNECE Charter..

Also known as: Making the Shift Inc