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Halfway houses - Small residential facilities in the community that provide treatment and supervision while at the same time allowing for more integration into ongoing community life.

Handicap - A disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or disability, that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal, depending on age, sex, social and cultural factors for that individual.

Handicapism - Term used to denote prejudice and discriminatory practices toward people with disabilities. Handicapism is similar to other forms of discrimination, including racism, heterosexism and sexism.

Harry Cassidy - promoted scientific social research in Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the University of Toronto, where he conducted studies of welfare services.

Healing lodges - They provide residential treatment or both treatment and lodging for people who become overwhelmed by social, emotional and spiritual problems. Currently approximately 50 treatment facilities provide Aboriginal residential healing. The Nechi Institute and Poundmaker’s Lodge in Alberta are examples, providing healing and lodging for people dealing with additions.

Health insurance - it did not materialize until the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) won provincial elections in Saskatchewan. The Marsh Report recommended comprehensive state funded health insurance, and the Social Service Council led by Charlotte Whitton opposed it. Canadian Health policy was also proposed in the Green Book in 1945. In 1964, the Hall Report discovered that 7.5 million Canadians did not have medical coverage.

Helpless - A category of need used in the Elizabethan Poor Law that was comprised of those with a disabling condition over which they had no control.

Heterosexism - A system of cultural beliefs, values, and customs that exalts heterosexuality and denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any non-heterosexual form of behaviour or identity.

Historical materialism - The view that the development or structure of history is determined by material things, i.e., what and how people produce (rather than by great leaders or ideas or spiritual forces).

Holistic Healing - This means that the whole of the person and the situation is examined and acted upon.

Homophobia - a pervasive, irrational fear of homosexuality. Homophobia includes the fear heterosexuals have of any homosexual feelings within themselves, any overt mannerisms or actions that would suggest homosexuality, and the resulting desire to suppress or stamp out homosexuality.

Homosexual - same-sex emotional and physical attraction and involvement. The more politically liberating terms of gay men and gay women or lesbians and, more recently, self-definitions of Queer and Dyke are preferred.

Horizontal equity - recognizes the fact that parents have heavier financial burdens than childless couples and single persons with the same incomes.

Household - A social unit formed by people who may or may not be married or related, and that performs many of the functions of the family. Often, used to replace the term family to avoid the legal definition in the Canadian Family Law Act which excludes same-sex relationships.

Houses of correction - Facilities similar to prisons established under the Elizabethan Poor Law and to which workhouse residents were sent if they violated the rules. Houses of correction were also used for criminals, vagrants, and welfare cheats.

Hudson's Bay Company - The oldest joint-stock trading company in the English world. It was chartered in 1670 and given exclusive trading rights in Hudson's Bay area, or Ruperts Land. The company started out in Fur Trading and has expanded steadily to the state it is in now, a worldwide retail power.

Human capital theory - an explanation of poverty, low earnings or unemployment are result of lack of abilities.

Human diversity - The biological, psychological, social, and cultural differences among people that affect the way their needs are expressed and satisfied.

Human rights - those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings. It is based on the recognition of individual political and civil rights and collective cultural, social and economic rights.

Human rights types or ‘generations’ – 1) negative rights, represents civil and political rights ensure freedom and curtailment of individual liberty. 2) positive rights or economic, social and cultural rights are aimed at ensuring justice, freedom from want, and participation in society. 3) The third level of rights correspond to changes to the international structures and institutions that hinder the attainment of the basic and fundamental rights of the first two levels.

Human services - Organized activities that help people in the areas of health, mental health, criminal justice, recreation, education, and related spheres.

Hypotheses - Specific propositions or expectations about the nature of thins derived from a theory.