This thesis explores how and why homeless youth in Winnipeg are using information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as the various impacts of this usage on their ability to cope with the realities of being homeless. Further, the study seeks to identify program and policy related recommendations which may be used to inform the development of ICT based programming and service delivery for homeless youth in Canada. Despite perceptions of ICTs as distractions or mere forms of recreation which prevent youth from engaging in productive or meaningful activity, this study provides preliminary evidence to suggest that homeless youth populations in Manitoba have appropriated ICTs into their everyday practices of survival and are increasingly reliant upon internet access in order to meet their basic needs.