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Welcome to the CHOoSe Project!

Project!

Co-Creating Housing Solutions: Enacting Opportunities for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

What is the CHOoSE Project?

An innovative approach is urgently needed to address housing instability among individuals with FASD.

Many people with FASD need personalized support to meet their housing needs. Across Canada, service providers want to learn how to better support this group.

The CHOoSE Project was a research project conducted with individuals with FASD, caregivers, housing service providers, researchers, support workers and policymakers.

Together, we worked to find new ways to build housing solutions that reflect the needs and strengths of individuals with FASD.

“These are all doable things. We just have to bring the right people together to make it happen.”

— Service Provider and Caregiver to an Individual with FASD

An FASD-Informed Housing Course

The CHOoSE Project taught us so much about the different barriers and supports related to housing. Using what we learned, we have developed a short, free online course on housing individuals with FASD.

What you can find in this course:

  • An overview of the project: What we did, and how we did it

  • Everything we learned: The specific areas we need to target to improve housing

  • Ways to put this into practice: Tools and resources you can download and take with you to help make an impact

Why take this course?

  • Housing is a human right, but up to 80% of youth and adults with FASD have experienced housing instability

  • Canada’s housing crisis is being felt across the country, but individuals with FASD are even more affected

  • Greater understanding of FASD will help you work and foster success for individuals with FASD

  • Read more about the housing experiences of individuals with FASD here.

We are passionate about making knowledge easy to access. Housing for individuals with FASD will not improve without greater understanding: this is a step towards that goal.

Who Did This Work?

  • A logo for Overlap Associates.

    Overlap Associates

    STRATEGY PARTNER

    Overlap Associates specializes in helping organizations, such as CanFASD, create and implement strategies that work for their goals.

    Overlap Associates helped guide the implementation of the CHOoSE Project.

  • The logo of the Canada FASD Research Network.

    Canada FASD Research Network

    RESEARCH

    CanFASD is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research network. We work together across Canada to learn more about FASD, and translate what we learn into action.

    CanFASD conducted all research and created all resources—including this website!

  • The logo for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

    Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

    FUNDER

    The Co-Creating Housing Solutions: Enacting Opportunities for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (CHOoSE) received funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) under the National Housing Strategy Solutions Labs, however, the views expressed are the personal views of the author and CMHC accepts no responsibility for them.