Sean Kidd, a co-author of the report and a clinical psychologist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said 24 per cent of those involved in the study lost stable housing and cycled back into homelessness over the course of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what it has to do with is a number of points of adversity. It takes a tremendous amount of resilience and strength and support to exit the streets in the first place, but you\u2019ve got many, many years of homelessness, the adversity therein, the challenges that led to becoming homeless,\u201d\u009d he said in an interview on CBC Radio\u2019s Metro Morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are often young people that have never in any way managed a home and all that goes into that, so there\u2019s a lot of skills to learn \u201d\u00a6 and what we found over the course of the year is for most they experienced declining hope \u201d\u201d they weren\u2019t engaging in communities that they had access to and mental health was faltering.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n