Table 1 Participant Organizational and Socio-demographic data
Variable | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|
Health and Social Service Providers: | |
Organization provides care to persons experiencing homelessness or unstable housing | 74% |
Organization provides care to persons experiencing substance use | 89% |
People with lived experience of homelessness | |
Identifying as First Nations, Inuit or Metis | 13% |
Completed high school of higher education | 68% |
Minimum of part time employment | 33% |
Duration of homelessness months or years | 39% |
Frequency of homelessness | |
Once | 100% |
> 5 times | 17% |
Service use (last 6 months): | |
Emergency department | 55% |
Healthcare clinic | 48% |
Hospital | 45% |
Ambulance services | 19% |
Self-reported mental health average or poor | 58% |
Substance use (last 3 months): | |
Alcohol | 68% |
Benzodiazepines | |
Cocaine | 32% |
Opioids | 29% |
Methadone or Buprenorphine/naloxone | 26% |
Crystal Methamphetamine | 45% |