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Author(s): Charles Bliss
Publication Date: 2006
Each State or Territory that receives Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) funds has a State PATH Contact who provides oversight to the program's local implementation. Among other activities, State PATH Contacts identify topics that are of special interest to the PATH program and select workgroups to study these topics in depth. In early 2003, the PATH Consumer Involvement Workgroup, under the leadership of Charles Blis...
Author(s): Craig Coldwell, WIlliam Bender
Publication Date: 2007
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of assertive community treatment in the rehabilitation of homeless persons with severe mental illness using a meta-analysis.
METHOD: A structured literature search identified studies for review. Inclusion criteria were the use of an assertive community treatment-based rehabilitation treatment in an experimental or quasi-experimental model, exclusive treatment of homeless subject...
Author(s): Robert Rosenheck, Alvin Mares
Publication Date: 2007
This resource provides the abstract and link to a study which examines the implementation process for supported employment programs amongst homeless veterans with either mental health or substance abuse diagnoses.
OBJECTIVE: There has been growing interest in the dissemination of supported employment, but few studies have used a control group to examine the benefits of multisite dissemination efforts for clients or have addressed the needs of hom...
Author(s): Mirella Landriscina
Publication Date: 2005
This study explores the historical dynamics of homeless advocacy in Philadelphia from 1981 to 2003. It is both a history of the politics of homelessness in Philadelphia and a comparative ethnography of two homeless service provider organizations in which fieldwork was conducted from May 2002 to September 2003. One central theoretical issue addressed in this study is the effect of contracting on third sector organizations. I employ a comparative a...
Author(s): Barbara Felton
Publication Date: 2005
In this ethnographic study of a mental health service agency staffed by “consumers,” or fellow “recipients” of services for serious mental illness, the concept of community narrative provides the framework for examining how such an agency preserves its consumer identity while providing services dictated by the established service system. Locating the agency's narrative in its “origins tale,” analysis revealed five principles comprising the agency...
Author(s): Mark Munetz, Patricia Gallon, Frese
Publication Date: 2003
The authors present three ethical arguments to address the controversy of mandatory community treatment: rights-based versus beneficence, utilitarian, and communitarian. Each approach suggests that mandatory community treatment can be an ethical intervention for individuals with severe mental disorders in well-defined circumstances. It is critical to recognize that such interventions cannot be effective in the absence of an adequately funded, qua...
Author(s): John McGah, Brian Sokol, Brooke Spellman, Nancy Sullivan
Publication Date: 2004
Homeless Management Information Systems (HMISs) are community-wide software solutions that are designed to capture client-level information over time on the characteristics and service needs of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness. In response to a Congressional directive, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has required all Continuums of Care (CoCs) across the country to implement HMIS at the local level. The pr...
Author(s): Deborah Padgett, Leyla Gulcer, Sam Tsemberis
Publication Date: 2006
This study shows that adults with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse can remain stably housed without increasing their substance use. It draws on data from a longitudinal experiment contrasting Housing First and treatment first programs.
The literature on homeless adults with severe mental illness is generally silent on a critical issue surrounding service delivery—the contrast between housing first and treatment first program philos...
Author(s): Deborah Dennis
Publication Date: 2007
Preliminary outcomes for states that participated in the initial round of the SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access and Recovery) Technical Assistance Initiative are presented. (Author)
Author(s): Diana Bowman, Barbara Duffield, Joy Moses
Publication Date: 2005
This information release from the national partners in homeless education summarizes the main points of federal law as related to the education of students displaced by hurricanes. (Authors)
Publication Date: 2002
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Subtitle B—Education for Homeless Children and Youth), reauthorized in January 2002, ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. This brief summary introduces the basic concepts in the legislation. (Authors)
Author(s): Gary Smith
Publication Date: 2007
Each year, one percent or more of the nation’s population experiences homelessness. An estimated 842,000 people are homeless in any given week. Of these, 66% are single adults and 34% are members of a homeless family (23% of homeless people are children). Homelessness has many underlying causes, ranging from economic crises that dislocate individuals and families to the debilitating effects of chronic (and, frequently, co-occurring) disorders suc...
Author(s): Caterina Roman, Michael Kane
Publication Date: 2007
This report examines the housing landscape of prisoner reentry in the District of Columbia through an analysis of neighborhoods that had high rates of returning prisoners and a survey of housing-related providers. This report fills important gaps in information vital to the District's continuing efforts to implement effective strategies for reintegrating and supervising returning parolees. More specifically, this research has been developed to pr...
Author(s): Margery Turner, Sheila Zedlewski
Publication Date: 2006
In the months since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, shock has given way to deep concern about what to do now, next, and down the road to bring back this unique city to social, cultural and economic health. Many of New Orleans' problems, which—to varying degrees—afflict other U.S. central cities, predated the storm. (Authors)
Author(s): Michael Allen
Publication Date: 2006
This final report incorporates the discussion and recommendations from the November 2004 meeting. Overall, it discusses the impact of short-term quality improvement measures in the use of board and care homes. It also calls for a fresh approach to providing housing for people with psychiatric disabilities — a recovery-oriented approach that revolves around the principles of consumer self-direction and community integration. (Author)
Author(s): Terceira Berdahl, Dan Hoyt, Leslie Whitbeck
Publication Date: 2006
Purpose: To describe and explain variations in first mental health service utilization before and after running away from home for homeless adolescents. <br/>Methods: Survey interviews were conducted with homeless and runaway youth in several Midwestern locations. The effects of family of origin factors and street experiences on the likelihood of seeing a mental health professional for the first time before running away and after running aw...
Author(s): Margaret Taylor-Seehafer, Regina Johnson, Lynn Rew, Rachel Fouladi, Lee Land, Elizabeth Abel
Publication Date: 2007
PURPOSE. To explore relationships and group differences in attachment-related constructs (social connectedness and social support) and sexual health behaviors in a sample of homeless youth. DESIGN AND METHODS. An exploratory design, this study analyzed baseline data from an ongoing intervention study. Survey data were collected by audio, computer-assisted self-interview (A-CASI) from a nonprobability sample of homeless youth (n = 176). RE...
Author(s): Mary Lashley
Publication Date: 2007
Nursing students can play a vital role in addressing the health care needs of the homeless. Through professional service learning experiences in community-based settings, students learn how to partner with key community leaders and agencies to meet the needs of underserved populations and provide culturally competent care to diverse populations. This article describes the development of a professional service learning experience with the homeless...
Publication Date: 2007
In Robinson v. California, the Court held that a statute punishing persons for being addicted to the use of narcotics violated the Eighth Amendment. In Powell v. Texas, however, the Justices disagreed over whether the principle underlying Robinson was that crimes must involve an actus reus or that the state may not punish involuntary conduct. Recently, in Jones v. City of Los Angeles, the Ninth Circuit weighed in on the question, holding that the...
Author(s): Holly Schindler, Rebekah Coley
Publication Date: 2007
The present qualitative research focuses on homeless fathers living with their children in family shelters. Data were collected through semistructured, face-to-face interviews with homeless fathers ( n= 9) and shelter directors ( n= 3). Findings suggest that how fathers made meaning of their experiences in a homeless shelter was related to contextual factors and constructions of masculinity. Contextual constraints deriving from unemployment, beha...