海角社区

Jino Distasio

Title: Professor
Phone: 204.982.1147
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: j.distasio@uwinnipeg.ca

Teaching Areas:

Urban Geography
Cultural Geography
Social Geography

Courses:

GEOG-3413(3) Urban Revitalization
GEOG-3430(3) Housing and Neighbourhood Planning

Research Interests:

Housing and neighbourhood development.
City planning (land use, zoning and development processes).
Urban revitalization
Homelessness and mental health
Urban transportation

Publications:

Distasio, J.; Mesich, M.; Hatch, J.; & Quanbury, D. (2022). Winnipeg’s Pandemic Response: Supporting Persons at Risk or Experiencing Homelessness. Winnipeg: Institute of Urban Studies, 海角社区.

Manoni-Millar, S., Distasio, J., Latimer, E., Somers, J., Stergiopoulos, V., Kerman, N., ... & Aubry, T. (2022). Examining Risk Factors and Protective Resources as Predictors of Recovery Among Youth with Mental Illness and Lived Experience of Homelessness. Youth & Society.

Distasio, J., Adair, C. E., Hwang, S., Hinds, A., Kopp, B. C., Aubry, T., … Kaufman, A. F. (2021). Exploring the relationship between neighbourhood quality (NQ) and housing stability among formerly homeless individuals with mental illness in housing first. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2,

McCallum, R., Distasio, J., Chateau, D., Sareen, J., Medved, M. I., & Hiebert-Murphy, D. (2021). Longitudinal Mixed Modelling of Emergency Department Use Among a Sample of Homeless Participants in a Housing First Demonstration Trial. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 32(4), 1829-1843.

Distasio, J., Snyder, M., & Ladd, A. (2020). A social enterprise model of housing first: lessons from Canada’s At Home Chez Soi homelessness project. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 1–9.  

Distasio, J; Maunder, M; Zell, S & Quanbury, D. (2020) Divided Prairie Neighbourhood: West Broadway’s Story of Hope, Challenge and Resiliency. Neighbourhood Change SSHRC.  

Distasio, J., Zell, S., McCullough, S., Edel, B. (2019). Localized Approaches to Ending Homelessness: Indigenizing Housing First. Winnipeg: Institute of Urban Studies.

Worton, S. K., J. Hasford, E. Macnaughton, G. Nelson, T. MacLeod, S. Tsemberis, V. Stergiopoulos, P. Goering, T. Aubry, J. Distasio, and T. Richter. 2017. American Journal of Community Psychology. doi:10.1002/ajcp.12219.

Aquin J, L. Roos J. Distasio, L. Y. Katz, J. Bourque, J. M. Bolton, S. Bolton, J. Y. Wong, D. Chateau, J. M. Somers, M. W. Enns, S. W. Hwang, J. C. Frankish, J. Sareen. 2017. . Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 62(7): 473–481.

O’Campo, P.; S. W. Hwang, A. Gozdzik, A. Schuler, V. Kaufman-Shriqui, D. Poremski, L. I. P. Lazgare, J. Distasio, S. Belbraouet, S. Addorisio. 2017. . Public Health Nutrition 1(11).

Hinds, A., B. Bechtel, J. Distasio, L. L. Roos, and L. Lix. 2017. . International Journal for Population Data Science 1(1).

Adair, C. E., B. Kopp, J. Distasio, S. W. Hwang, J. Lavoie, S. Veldhuizen, ... and S. Cote, S. 2016. . Journal of Urban Health 93(4): 682–697.

Hinds, A,M.; B. Bechtel, J. Distasio, L. Roos, L. M. Lix. 2016. . Journal of Epidemiology Community Health: doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206845.

Reynolds, K. A., C. A. Isaak, T. DeBoer, M. Medved, J. Distasio, L. Y., Katz, and J. Sareen. 2016. . Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 34: 1–13.

Poremski, D., V. Stergiopoulos, E. Braithwaite, J. Distasio, R. Nisenbaum, and E. Latimer, E. 2016. . Psychiatric Services 67(6): 603–609.

DeBoer, T.J., M. I. Medved, J. Sareen, D. Hiebert-Murphy, and J. Distasio. 2016. . Housing, Care and Support 19(1): 1–9.

Aubry, T., P. Goering, S. Veldhuizen, C. E. Adair, J. Bourque, J. Distasio, E. Latimer, V. Stergiopoulos, J. Somers, D. L. Streiner, and S. Tsemberis. 2015. . Psychiatric Service: http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400587.

Poremski, D, J. Distasio, S. Hwang, and L. Latimer. 2015. . Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 60(9): 379–385.

Volk, J S., T. Aubry, P. Goering, C. E. Adair, J. Distasio, J. Jette, D. Nolin, V. Stergiopoulos, D. E. Streiner, and S. Tsemberis. 2015. . Journal of Mental Health, DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2015.1101416.

Goering, P., S. Veldhuizen, G. B. Nelson, A. Stefancic, S. Tsemberis, C. E. Adair, J. Distasio, T. Aubry, V. Stergiopoulos, and D. L. Streiner. 2015. . Psychiatric Services: appi.ps.201400359.

De Boer, T., J. Distasio, C. Isaak, L. Roos, S. Bolton, M. Medved, L. Y. Katz, P. Goering, and J. Sareen. 2015. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 34(2): 37–51.

Alaazi, D. A., J. R. Masuda, J. Evans, and J. Distasio. 2015. . Social Science & Medicine 147: 30–37.

Distasio, J., and S. McCullough. 2014. Revitalization in downtown Winnipeg: Current successes and lessons learned. Plan Canada 53(4).

Roos, L. E., J. Distasio, S. L. Bolton, L. Y. Katz, T. O. Afifi, C. Isaak, and J. Sareen. 2014. . Child Abuse & Neglect 38(10): 1618-1627.

Nelson, G., A. Stefancic, J. Rae, G. Townley, S. Tsemberis, E. Macnaughton, T. Aubry, J. Distasio, R. Hurtubise, M., Patterson, V., Stergiopoulos, M. Piat, and G. Goering. 2014. . Evaluation and Program Planning 43: 16–26

Adair, C E., B. Koop, J. Lavoie, J. Distasio, S. W. Hwang, A. Watson, S. Veldhuizen, K., Chislett, J. Voronka, M. Ahmad, N. Ahmed, and P. Goering. 2014. . Journal of Urban Health: doi:10.1007/s11524-013-9851-6