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Day in the Life of a Homeless Person: Lesson Plan
Author(s): Valerie Williams
Organization: League
Publication Date: 2002
Division: Junior Subject: Language Arts Complete website available at (http://www.learningtogive.org/units/i-can-do/day-life-homeless-person) A lesson idea Integrates use of multimedia Reading comprehension questions Text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world based questions and connections  This lesson will look at a day in the life of a homeless person and offer students a different point of view. It will demonstrate the importance of social j...
A Prospective Meta-analytic Approach in a Multisite Study of Homelessness Prevention
Author(s): Steven Banks, Gregory McHugo, Valerie Williams, Robert Drake, Marybeth Shinn
Publication Date: 2002
This article focuses on The Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness, a multisite study designed to identify promising approaches to preventing homelessness among persons with substance abuse and mental disorders and to explore the relative effectiveness of these approaches. The article discusses this multisite study designed to explore the relative differences of several interventions developed to ameliorate homelessness among persons with...
Perceived Coercion at Hospital Admission and Adherence to Mental Health Treatment After Discharge
Author(s): Sarah Rain, Valerie Williams, Pamela Robbins, John Monahan, Henry Steadman, Roumen Vesselinov
Publication Date: 2003
The authors investigated whether mental health inpatients' perceptions of coercion were associated with later treatment adherence. Psychiatric inpatients receiving acute care at three sites were interviewed during their hospitalization and up to five times after discharge. Patients' perceptions of coercion were measured at admission. Adherence to medication and clinical treatment was measured every ten weeks for one year after discharge. Among th...
Reliability and Validity of a Modified Colorado Symptom Index in a National Homeless Sample
Author(s): Kendon Conrad, John Yagelka, Michael Matters, Alexander Rich, Valerie Williams, Mary Buchanan
Publication Date: 2001
This study examined the reliability and construct validity of a modified version of the Colorado Symptom Index (MCSI), a brief, self-report measure of psychological symptomatology, in a study of interventions to prevent homelessness. Eight projects in a national, cooperative study collected new data at baseline, 6, and 12 months using a set of common measures as well as site-specific instruments. The pooled sample consisted of 1,381 persons in tr...
Final Report on the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness
Author(s): Valerie Williams, Steven Banks, Pamela Robbins, Dierdre Oakley, J. Dean
Publication Date: 2001
This report focuses on cross-site evaluation in terms of the cross-site data collection and analysis efforts of the Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness (CPPH), an initiative designed to document and evaluate effective homelessness prevention strategies for adults who are formerly homeless or at risk for becoming homeless. The purpose of this report is to describe both the process used for developing the shared methods and measures that...
Integrating Behavioral Health Services for Homeless Mothers and Children in Primary Care
Author(s): Linda F. Weinreb, Joanne Nicholson, Valerie Williams, Fran Anthes
Publication Date: 2007
This article describes an innovative trauma-informed care management model in which mental health, substance abuse, and support services are integrated for homeless families in primary care. The rationale for service integration in a health care setting is discussed and the conceptual underpinnings of the model are elaborated, drawing from the literature and clinical experience. Service encounter data collected by each staff member over a 1-year...
Measuring Homelessness and Residential Stability: the Residential Time-line Follow-back Inventory
Author(s): Sam Tsemberis, Gregory J. McHugo, Valerie Williams, Patricia Hanrahan, Ana Stefancic
Publication Date: 2007
Reliable and valid longitudinal residential histories are needed to assess interventions to reduce homelessness and increase community tenure. This study examined the test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and concurrent validity of the Residential Time-Line Follow-Back (TLFB) Inventory, a method used to record residential histories in the Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness (n = 1,381). The Residential TLFB Inventory yielded t...
A Comparison of Mothers With Co-occurring Disorders and Histories of Violence Living With Or Separated From Minor Children
Author(s): Joanne Nicholson, Norma Finkelstein, Valerie Williams, Jennifer Thom, Chanson Noether, Megan DeVilbiss
Publication Date: 2006
Abstract Data from the Women with Co-occurring Disorders and Histories of Violence Study are used to examine characteristics distinguishing mothers currently providing care for all their minor children (n = 558) from mothers separated from one or more minor children (n = 1396). Mothers are described and compared on background characteristics and experiences, well-being and current functioning, situational context, and services used. Analyses con...