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Literature Review

In 2023, CHA contracted Brigid Reynolds (Compass Rose Planning Services) to conduct a literature review of key reports, plans, and other documents from the Cowichan Region spanning 2017 to 2022. The intent of the review was to detail the recent history of, and actions and recommendations related to, affordable housing, homelessness, and the intersection with social and health issues to ensure that future work built off previous learnings and recommendations.

 

Below is the complete literature review along with the reports and documents cited within it.

Literature Review

Cowichan Housing Association and Compass Rose Planning Services

2023

Key Documents

Social Planning Cowichan

2021

Chris Osborne, Manager, Planning

2021

Social Planning Cowichan

2021

Vicky Trill, Reaching Home Manager

Jennifer Lazenby, Reaching Home Manager

2022

Tom Strong

Secretary

Tom Strong moved to the Cowichan Valley in the summer of 2019, retiring from a career as a Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Calgary. Originally born and raised on Vancouver Island, moving back meant encountering an unexpected and alarming degree of homelessness. Homelessness and mental health problems go hand in hand so being involved in addressing homelessness seemed one way of contributing to big picture wellness issues here in the Cowichan Valley. 

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