She has worked in the area of homelessness since 1988. She prefers to be called a Street Nurse – a term coined about 20 years ago by a homeless man at the corner of Sherbourne and Dundas in downtown Toronto. She points out that at that time there were only 4 or 5 street nurses in Toronto, perhaps even Canada, compared to probably 100 now, from Victoria to Halifax. That, in itself, makes a powerful statement about the extent of homelessness.