Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. Listen as we interview three more youths who were living in Brampton Youth Shelter in August of 2023.  We’ll hear their stories, learn their insights, and heed their calls to action.

Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. Listen as we interview three youths who were living in Brampton Youth Shelter in August of 2023.  We’ll hear their stories, learn their insights, and heed their calls to action.

Youth shelters are an invaluable resource in the fight against youth homelessness. Youth Support Supervisor Crystal Groves, Youth Worker Latoya Green, and Complex Case Coordinator Abigail Fraser-Dillon from Our Place Peel share what life is like inside the shelter as service providers. Let's learn about the services provided, their impact on the community, and the pros and cons of the youth shelter system.

When the world shut down in 2020, international student Sasha had nowhere to go. Racing against the ticking clock of her university residence shutting down, Sasha and her friends rushed to find housing in the GTA. Little did they know the nightmare they were diving into.

On this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, we’ll hear Sasha’s story of renting in the GTA as an international student. Her experiences expose the tricky landscape of unlawful deposits, awful maintenance, and, in her words, the practice of social law versus legal law.

Homelessness and poverty are complicated issues that so often feel like they’re being overlooked by the people in charge. With the skyrocketing costs of living and the harder it's become to find deep-cut affordable housing, it's so easy to feel like everyone’s last priority.

Councillor Martin Reid is the new councillor for Mississauga’s Ward 9, which covers Meadowvale and Central Erin Mills. Today, we get to know a little more about who he is, how he wants to his community heal from poverty, and how he plans to use his position in office to amplify the issues that matter to us.

Renting life is complicated to navigate, especially for independent youth. Even if a tenant is completely within their rights to stay in the face of a threatened eviction, beyond a certain point, upholding your rights gets complicated when your safety is in danger.

In this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks, Host Mya Moniz chats with Chev, an anonymous youth client of REST Centres who was illegally evicted by her landlord and roommate earlier this year. She’s here to tell her story, share the warning signs, and offer advice to any youth in similar situations.

One Youth shares her experience in a psychologically abusive household and her escape in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks. Host Mya Moniz sits with "Vee," an anonymous youth client of REST Centres who shares her story of homelessness risk, and how she found her way to REST Centres and beyond.

Food insecurity is a complicated issue in that a lot of people don’t identify with it–even if they should. Kirstin Beardsley, CEO of Food Banks Canada, continues our food insecurity breakdown and takes the conversation beyond the dinner table. From social stigma to long-term impacts, food insecurity is about more than just food–especially for the next generation.

Let’s talk about food insecurity, how it intersects with homelessness and poverty, and how the current inflation crisis amplifies the problem tenfold. Christie Lind and Nichole Norris, the Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Programs Manager from the Mississauga Food Bank sit with guest host Daphna Nussbaum from the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness to define food insecurity, share some data and personal anecdotes from their work, and tell all about the ways food insecurity intersects with so many parts of life–especially in today’s financial crisis.

Let's talk about youth homelessness in 2022 and how REST Centres strives to serve the over two-hundred youth in our care. REST Program Manager Nikima Leslie and REST Case Manager Jacqui Henry to show how the homeless youth community now needs REST Centres more than ever before.

Let’s hear the stories of those actively experiencing homelessness and their closes friends and allies, straight from the encampment communities, themselves—real stories of real people from endless walks of life. People just like me. People just like you. People. People. People.

Learn about the community found inside encampment communities through the remarkable transformation of two community leaders and the heartwarming stories of those living rough on the streets of Peel.

Encampment Communities Count: learn about how encampment communities intersect with the discussion of human rights, what it means to exercise our human rights while experiencing homelessness, and how the Region of Peel and its citizens can better approach encampment communities to keep them safe and legitimate.

Encampment Communities Count: Let’s discuss how hard it is to find your footing after falling into homelessness, and how important it is for the community of Peel to protect encampment communities and their residents.

This episode celebrates the one-year anniversary of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks with a sit-down, tell-all with founding member and host, Mya Moniz, who shares what it’s like to rent as a young person in a skyrocketing housing crisis, what she’s learned about homelessness, youth homelessness, and surrounding issues, and how the podcast has changed her outlook on life.

Social media, its growing prevalence in our lives, the dangers we see and the frustrations we have with it in the context of youth health and well being, and its societal impact, change, and protection.

Individualism, socialism, self-love, and more with REST client Zack and his deep-cut survival story.

The unique experiences of youth identifying as part of the LGBTQ2S+ community with stigmatization, discrimination, and homelessness.

A breakdown of the intricate nature of substance use in Peel, how poverty and homelessness intertwine with it, and how harm reduction plays a significant and important role in returning a sense of agency to a highly stigmatized population of Peel.

A political perspective of the state of Canada’s homelessness policies and promises ahead of the 2022 Ontario provincial election to break down where our priorities should be as citizens.