Resources
Find a starting point, prepare for a conversation, or bring a practical tool into your everyday work. These resources draw on the Expert Steering Team’s experience to support learning about homelessness, respectful community responses, and meaningful lived experience engagement.
Description
Sample Lived Experience Team Handbook
Develop a handbook that works for your lived experience team. This editable template includes discussion prompts to help organizations and team members develop their working relationships….
- Type: Template
- Template
Community of Practice
Connect with people across Canada who coordinate, facilitate, or support lived experience engagement….
- Type: Community of Practice
- Community of Practice
Responding to a Crisis in Ottawa: A Quick Reference Guide
A quick-reference guide to emergency, crisis, and outreach services in Ottawa, with reminders for safe, respectful interactions….
- Type: Quick Reference
- Quick Reference
Getting Started with Lived Experience Engagement
This introductory guide explores what meaningful engagement involves, why it matters, and the foundations that help turn good intentions into equitable partnerships….
- Type: Primer
- Primer
Before You Invite: An Engagement Planning Checklist
This checklist helps you work through purpose, decision-making power, compensation, accessibility, and support, so participants arrive with clear expectations and the conditions to contribute meaningfully….
- Type: Checklist
- Checklist