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Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2010
The Homelessness Resource Center's Annual Report 2010 summarizes project activities for the period September 2009 to September 2010. The report highlights the HRC's on-site and on-line training and technical assistance activities, the growth of the HRC website, development of knowledge-based products, and HRC Expert Panels, workgroups, and listening tours. In 2009-2010, the HRC training team visited 16 cities and trained 1,517 homeless service pr...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2010
A growing number of older adults are facing homelessness in the US. Homelessness is a wearing and traumatic experience at any age. For the elderly, homelessness magnifies the effects of aging, including physical frailty, chronic disease, mental health issues, and social isolation. Hearth, a Boston-based agency dedicated to ending elder homelessness, has developed a model of outreach, case management, and service-enriched housing tailored to the n...
Publication Date: 2010
The SAMHSA/CMHS Homelessness Resource Center (HRC) convened an Expert Panel to better understand the needs of youth who are experiencing homelessness and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, or two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S). The Expert Panel also discussed youth who are homeless and perceived as LGBTQI2-S, as the research demonstrates a clear level of vulnerability and adversity resulting from the perception of sexual...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2010
Ruth, a single mother, shares her story of regaining stability and exiting homelessness with the help of services and supports from Saranam, a transitional housing program in New Mexico. A new article published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal proposes a three-tier approach to assessing the needs of families experiencing homelessness. In the words of Ruth, “Saranam has given me a second chance.”
"I am hopeful about the future. Saran...
Publication Date: 2010
FREE Access to Full Text: This article examines the recovery paradigm across several fields, and explores the need for recovery-oriented 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, drawing from personal and indirect recovery perspectives, support current trends toward recovery-orient...
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...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2009
This Homelessness Resource Center (HRC) Annual Report highlights the work that the HRC has accomplished from 2008-2009. Activities include training, technical assistance, knowledge-driven products, and the website.
About the Homelessness Resource Center
The Homelessness Resource Center fosters the development of an interactive learning community of providers, consumers, policymakers, researchers, and government agencies at federal, state, and com...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2009
Ruth White is the Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare. She works to bring together housing policy and child welfare. Her work shows how children are needlessly held in the foster care system because their parents cannot afford housing. Ruth discusses the connections between affordable housing, parenting, homelessness, and foster care with the HRC’s Wendy Grace Evans.
Visit the HRC Parenting and Homelessness web...