Co-Creating Housing Solutions:
Enacting Opportunities for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
About the CHOoSE Project
CHOoSE was a Canada-wide research project!
We interviewed 47 different housing providers, youth with FASD, caregivers, researchers, and policymakers across Canada.
That included 8 different regions of Canada: New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon, Manitoba, and Newfoundland!
Building off of previous research, the CHOoSE project’s full title is:
Co-Creating Housing Solutions: Enacting Opportunities for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The focus of this project were these opportunities and solutions.
Researchers, service providers and individuals with living experience have identified many barriers to safe and stable housing in Canada for individuals with FASD.
If we know that housing must become better…
What Did We Learn?
Where there are barriers to safe and stable housing, there are opportunities to improve.
Improving housing needs to happen across four domains: access, collaboration, individualization, and understanding.
These domains are not separate, but overlap and influence each other. This is particularly true for understanding, which is fundamental to success in all other domains.
Flexible access to supports, resources, and housing options are key.
Flexible access to supports, resources, and housing options are key.
Supports, housing and policy should be flexible: able to adapt to the person, not the other way around.
Understanding is the fundamental basis on which everything else can be built.
Who Did This Work?
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Overlap Associates guided implementation.
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CanFASD conducted research and created resources.
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This project was funded by the CMHC National Housing Strategy Solution Lab.