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Promising Practices for Serving Philadelphia’s Students Who Experience Homelessness

Family Service Provider Network

This report, Promising Practices, offers a framework to help providers develop and maintain relationships with key personnel in their children’s schools, provide academic support, lower truancy, and improve parental involvement. Authors examine the Education Support Staff Program, evaluating how this model maintains relationships with families and schools to provide support for students experiencing homelessness.

Begging for Change: Begging Restrictions Throughout Washington

Drew Sena and Jocelyn Tillisch

The act of panhandling, commonly known as begging, is a constitutionally protected form of speech.1 But Washington’s cities are increasingly enacting ordinances that criminalize begging. The consequences of criminalizing begging are severe and include violations of First Amendment and due process rights. Indeed, these ordinances often outlaw peaceful and nonintrusive behavior protected by the First Amendment. Some advocates...

Seen or Unseen? The Role of Race in Police Contact among Homeless Youth

Jerreed Ivanich and Tara Warner

Homeless youth are at an increased risk of police contact—being stopped by police and arrested, yet it is less clear if this interaction is patterned by race. The current study draws on diverse scholarship to examine three possible effects of race on homeless youths’ interaction with police: that non-White homeless youth are more likely, less likely or no different than White youth to experience police contact. Using the...

Implementing Change: Addressing the Intersections of Juvenile Justice and Youth Homelessness for Young Adults

Lisa Pilinik

et al.

Young adults ages 18-24 require specific, targeted services and interventions from the juvenile justice and homelessness service providers with whom they interact if they are to achieve successful outcomes and avoid long-term harms. Researchers found that 1 in 10 young adults in the U.S. experience homelessness in a year. This includes many different kinds of experiences, from sleeping outdoors or in emergency shelters to...

Correlates of Treatment Readiness among Formerly Incarcerated Homeless Women

Treatment readiness is a key predictor of drug treatment completion, rearrest, and recidivism during community reentry; however, limited data exist among homeless female offenders (HFOs). The purpose of this study was to present baseline data from a randomized controlled trial of 130 HFOs who had been released from jail or prison. Over half (60.8%) of HFOs had a treatment readiness score of ≥40. Bivariate analyses revealed...

Clinical and functional characteristics of young adults living in single room occupancy housing: preliminary findings from a 10-year longitudinal study

Young adults living in single room occupancy (SRO) hotels, a form of low-income housing, are known to have complex health and substance problems compared to their peers in the general population. The objective of this study is to comprehensively describe the mental, physical, and social health profile of young adults living in SROs. This study reports baseline data from young adults aged 18–29 years, as part of a prospective...

Mental Health & Addiction Interventions for Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Practical Strategies for Front-line Providers

The book contains four sections covering a range of topics that service providers inquire about most often. Part 1: Approaches and Interventions describes specific approaches to addressing the mental health and substance use challenges of youth experiencing homelessness. Topics include the community reinforcement approach and motivational enhancement therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, mindfulness approaches,...

Missed Opportunities: Pregnant and Parenting Youth Experiencing Homelessness in America

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Missed Opportunities: Pregnant and Parenting Youth Experiencing Homelessness in America details the unique challenges faced by young people experiencing homelessness who are pregnant or parenting. The findings suggest that many of the nearly 4.2 million adolescents and young adults in America who experience some type of homelessness during a 12-month period are pregnant or young parents. Many of those young parents are...

Understanding the Success of Chicago’s Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative

Elizabeth Oo

This report documents the story of the Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI), an effort by local, regional, and federal partners to end and prevent homelessness among veterans in the City of Chicago through a coordinated, data-driven process. The first section chronicles the history of EVHI and introduces the initiative’s structure and its members. Subsequent sections characterize changes EVHI has made to the process...

Advisory Committee on Homelessness – Final Report

Advisory Committee on Homelessness

This report outlines the vulnerability of indigenous and rural populations to homelessness in Canada as well as recommends improvements in responses to prevent and end homelessness. According to this report, Indigenous Peoples are 10 times more likely to access homeless emergency shelters thannon‑Indigenous people, representing approximately 30 percent of all shelter users in 2014, while only representing approximately 5...

Ageing out of place: The impact of gender and location on older Victorians in homelessness

In 2011, Hanover Welfare Services completed a research project Ageing in What Place, which investigated the growing number of older persons presenting at homelessness services. The present study builds on this earlier phase of research by undertaking a preliminary investigation into the role that gender and location play in housing crisis and homelessness for people aged 55 and over in Victoria.

Housing challenges for refugee-stream newcomers: research findings and their relevance for the Syrian arrivals 2015-2016

Centre Urbanization Culture Societe

This presentation focuses on refugee stream admissions to Canada, housing experiences, and research on refugee arrivals in 2015-2016.

An Economic Theory of Homelessness and Housing

Brendan O'Flaherty

There is good reason to suspect that changes in the housing market had something to do with the dramatic rise in the homelessness in the United States after 1980. Whether the housing market is responsible, however, remains a controversial question. Resolving this question takes two things: a theory of the housing market that includes homelessness and relates it with other measurable phenomena, and a great deal of serious...

Study reveals cost benefits in housing the homeless

Carolyn Gonzales

The University of New Mexico Institute for Social Research conducted a study for the City of Albuquerque on the cost and benefits of housing homeless people in the city. Results of the Albuquerque Heading Home Initiative reveal that it is cost-effective to house homeless people. The results of the study demonstrate that one-year after being housed, study group member costs were $615,920.49 or 31.6 percent less than costs...

Hacking Nonprofit Collaboration

Art Taylor

This source outlines nine considerations for nonprofits looking to maximise social impact through collaboration.

Missed Opportunities: Pregnant and Parenting Youth Experiencing Homelessness in America

This Research-to-Impact brief is the third in a series that draws on multiple research components from Voices of Youth Count. Adolescence and young adulthood represent a critical developmental window. Every day that young people experience the stress of housing instability represents a missed opportunity to support their healthy development and promote successful transitions to adulthood. Throughout this brief, Voices of...

Dignity and Social Inclusion: Civil society’s role in social protection for homeless

Katy Sherratt

This source discusses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in solving homelessness. Within the context of the U.S., this source outlines key strategies CSOs should employ, such as promoting social inclusion and supporting education, employment, and housing.

Different Paths to Collaboration Between Businesses and Civil Society and the Role of Third Parties

Daniel Arenas

Matthew Murphy

Pablo Sanchez

In this article, we suggest that one of the unexplored paths toward collaboration between firms and civil society organizations starts with confrontation or potential conflict, and that the transition toward collaboration can be further understood if one focuses on triadic relationships rather than dyadic ones. We analyze the presence of third parties and their different roles to explain how collaboration is facilitated. The...

Homelessness Research: Shaping Policy and Practice, Now and Into the Future

Mark Johnston

This source discusses progress in homelessness research, policy, and programming in the U.S. The authors cite the HUD-VASH program and Housing First programs as best practice. Also, this discussion focuses on issues of health and health care within the context of homelessness and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Homelessness and Malnutrition

Hans Wolff

This research summary discusses the link between homelessness and malnutrition in Prague. According to this article, only a small proportion of homeless people were found to have indicators of long-term starvation. Yet, these results are surprising as alcoholism, a common cause of malnutrition was frequent and almost half of homeless people in this study indicated involuntary weight loss. As such, the authors argue that this...

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