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Community Integration in the Early Phase of Housing Among Homeless Persons Diagnosed With Severe Mental Illness: Successes and Challenges
Author(s): Philip T. Yanos, Susan M. Barrow, Sam Tsemberis
Publication Date: 2004
The present investigation used qualitative methods to explore the response to housing and experience of community integration of formerly homeless individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness recently housed in both independent and staffed residential settings. Findings indicate that entering into housing after a long period of homelessness is associated with improvements in community integration for most individuals diagnosed with severe men...
Closer to Home: Interim Housing for Long-Term Shelter Residents: A Study of the Kelly Hotel
Author(s): Susan M. Barrow, Gloria Rodriguez
Publication Date: 2000
Recent evidence that a subgroup of homeless individuals have become long-term residents of NYC shelters has spurred a search for new approaches to engage them in services and providing appropriate housing alternatives. The Kelly Hotel Transitional Living Community (TLC), developed by the Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) with first year funding from the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is one pioneering effort to help mentally ill lon...
Contexts of Mother–Child Separations in Homeless Families
Author(s): Susan M. Barrow, Terese Lawinski
Publication Date: 2009
Families that contend with the losses, disruptions, and hardships occasioned by homelessness often experience dispersal of children as well. Although a federal initiative on homeless families identified family preservation as a focus of intervention development, there is little research to guide service efforts. This qualitative study of mother–child separations in homeless families with maternal mental health and/or substance use problems identi...
Invisible Mothers: Parenting by Homeless Women
Author(s): Susan M. Barrow, N. D. Laborde
Publication Date: 2008
Though surveys repeatedly demonstrate that most women who are homeless alone have minor children living apart from them, there is little information on the circumstances of their separations or whether and how they remain involved with their children. Analysis of data from in-depth interviews with mothers, relatives caring for their children, and shelter and child welfare staff highlights a tension between perspectives and aspirations of mothers...