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Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This article examines trauma-informed care and how it can improve the effectiveness of homeless services. It is featured in the "Future of Homeless Services" Special Issue, guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal. The authors use a trauma-informed framework to explore best practices in avoiding traumatic experiences in service care.
It is reasonable to...
Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This literature review examines current knowledge about conducting outreach and engagement targeted to people experiencing homelessness. It is featured in the "Future of Homeless Services" Special Issue, guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal. The authors use this review to underline the importance of outreach and engagement.
Outreach and engagement a...
Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This article examines the unique services needs of families that are homeless. It is featured in the "Future of Homeless Services" Special Issue, guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal. The authors proposes a framework for assessing the needs of families experiencing homelessness over time.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the need for supports...
Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This article is featured in the "Future of Homeless Services" Special Issue, guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal. This introduction provides an overview of needs for homeless services and introduces the eight articles that comprise the special issue, reviewing the literature on homeless services in key areas as a step toward establishing the eviden...
Publication Date: 1998
Objective: This study compared the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders among homeless and low-income housed mothers with the prevalence of these disorders among all women in the National Comorbidity Survey. Method: The authors used an unmatched case-control design for assessing 220 homeless and 216 housed mothers receiving public assistance. Results: Homeless and housed mothers had similar rates of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Both grou...
Publication Date: 1993
Homeless women generally face the same social and economic problems as do men but in an intensified form due to the social marginalization of women and the responsibilities of parenthood, often borne by women alone. Remedies that entail changes in public policy and the enhancement of social-support networks are discussed.
Publication Date: 2009
FREE Access to Full Text: This is an introduction and overview to the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness", guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol 79, July 2009.
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This overview of parenting and homelessness includes the characteristics and needs of families who are homeless, with a focus on the...
Publication Date: 2009
FREE Access to All Full Articles: The Homelessness Resource Center introduces a "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness" that ran in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Vol. 79, No. 3, 2009. This introductory page provides information about earning continuing education credits from the content in this special section.
The Homelessness Resource Center is grateful to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)...
Organization: Better Homes Fund, HCH Clinicians’ Network Research Committee, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Publication Date: 2000
Understanding Trauma
People react to violence and abuse in complex ways, often resulting in serious emotional and medical consequences. Table 1 describes common symptoms of a psychiatric-medical syndrome among trauma survivors called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD involves the short and long-term effects of physical or sexual abuse as well as other traumas.
Organization: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Publication Date: 2009
Many of us recognize the value in outreach and engagement, and we practice and promote it in our communities. But what defines it? How do we know what works? How do we know that our approach to outreach is consistent with other successful approaches? This evidence brief shares preliminary findings from HRC’s review of outreach and engagement.
How do you define outreach and engagement? What are the essential elements? Challenges? Let HRC know by “...
Publication Date: 2006
This article reviews what is known about the role of housing and services in reducing family homelessness. People in families comprise 33 percent of the homeless population, but few resources are available to fully meet their needs. Some researchers have suggested that the vast majority of these families do not need services and that housing vouchers alone can end most family homelessness. The literature on the effects of housing subsidies and se...