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Youth Callaboration Toolkit
True Colors Fund
Whenever decisions are being made that impact young people, it’s important that youth are at the table and have equitable decision-making responsibilities. This can look a number of different ways: working with young people to establish a youth leadership body, including one or more youth representatives on a board of directors, and...
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North America
Engaging Community Residents with Lived Experience
Through the Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) initiative, community partners developed a strengths-based model of community transformation, called Community of Solutions, in partnership with communities. The creators of SCALE believed that communities would create far better, more effective...
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North America
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...
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North America
Leaving Homelessness Behind: Housing Decisions Among Families Exiting Shelter
Benjamin W. Fisher
Jill Khadduri
Lindsay S. Mayberry
Marybeth Shinn
Because homelessness assistance programs are designed to help families, it is important for policymakers and practitioners to understand how families experiencing homelessness make housing decisions, particularly when they decide not to use available services. This study explores those decisions using in-depth qualitative interviews with...
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North America
The lived experience of homeless youth: A narrative approach
Phillip L. Hammack and Erin E. Toolis
Homeless youth are an understudied and stigmatized group. In their daily lives, these youth confront negative social perceptions and harrowing circumstances related to survival, which may present challenges to the construction of a meaningful, coherent identity. Using the theoretical notion of narrative engagement, this study explores...
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North America
Healthcare Experiences of the Homeless
Bonnie Nickasch
Suzanne K. Marnocha
The objective of this study was to explore the healthcare experiences of homeless individuals and inform providers of the barriers created by the situation of homelessness. This was a qualitative research study using a grounded theory approach. The sample included homeless individuals older than 18 years living in northeastern Wisconsin...
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North America
A Place of Refuge: A monitor of homelessness among destitute asylum seekers - A proposal for action
Housing4All
This research, which involved interviews with 36 destitute asylum seekers, was carried out by the newly formed Housing4All campaign group supported by PPR. Destitute asylum seekers are those whose application for asylum in the UK has been refused and are often in the position of gathering further information for an appeal or a fresh...
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Europe
Peer Community Helps Homeless Drug Abusers With Mental Illnesses Reduce Drug Use
Neil Swan
Researchers at the Center for Therapeutic Community Research (CTCR) in New York City, one of NIDA's major multidisciplinary research centers, are studying a treatment program they devised to meet the complex psychiatric and substance abuse needs of homeless substance abusers who are also mentally ill. They have designed a "modified...
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North America
Social Services for Sexual Minority Youth: Preferences for What, Where, and How Services are Delivered
Elizabeth A. Wells
Kenta Asakura
Marilyn J. Hoppe
Kimberly F. Balsam
Diane M. Morrison
Blair Beadnell
The purpose of the current study is to examine and present empirical data directly obtained from sexual minority youth on their preferences for what, where, and how social services should be offered. As part of an internet-based study to investigate experiences of sexual minority youth in the U.S., 544 youth, ages 14–19, were surveyed...
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‘‘Because Somebody Cared about Me. That’s How It Changed Things’’: Homeless, Chronically Ill Patients’ Perspectives on Case Management
Elizabeth Davis
Aracely Tamayo
Alicia Fernandez
Case management programs for chronically ill, homeless people improve health and resource utilization by linking patients with case managers focused on improving management of medical and psychosocial problems. Little is known about participants’ perspectives on case management interventions. This qualitative study used in-depth, one-on-...
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North America
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