 Hi, greetings everyone. My name is Philip Shedersky and I'll be presenting my undergraduate honors essay research with you today focused on Social service and health care interventions for the absolute homeless My research question is given the extent of the homelessness crisis our current health care and social service interventions Treating this population effectively and efficiently. So currently there are about 235,000 people homeless in Canada every year and 185,000 of those are considered to be absolute homeless. So living on the street and or in the shelter system This includes entire families, youth, single men, single mothers, the entire gambit of the population They often suffer physical and mental illness rates at much higher percentages than the non homeless population and are accessing the emergency department at hospitals to Gain services for their illnesses, which is extremely expensive and ineffective So I found two systemic influences on the homelessness crisis as we know it They're both around the 1970s and 80s. The first was the deregulation of the federal and National social housing strategy and the second was the de-institutionalization of large mental health facilities for those with severe mental illness So in response to this homelessness crisis There have been many different agencies and programs that have come about but my research focuses on Analyzing housing first and inner city health teams. Housing first is a strategy to housing that focuses on housing people right away With no preconditions and then giving them supportive services afterwards to help maintain their housing and inner city health teams focus on providing Primary health care of the same quality as someone that was non homeless would receive except directly in the shelter system or on the street So my analysis and program evaluation focused on assessing the potential for increased human and social capital for the absolute homeless that used all of the aforementioned services and Did this through two main variables the first is effectiveness which showed improved life outcomes in general Which took priority in my research as it showed the true human and social capital gain possible and an efficiency variable Which assessed the cost saved due to mitigated additional service use by the clients in each respective intervention and The overall results from the research showed that each of these programs Housing first with assertive community treatment or intensive case management and inner city health teams separately show significant potential to improve The human and social capital of the absolute homeless who use these interventions while concurrently saving Canadian taxpayers a lot of money in the process thus it warrants lots of further research into the usefulness of the programming and We should all take it upon ourselves to hopefully fulfill that mandate. So thank you very much everyone