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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...
Author(s): Jaimie Page
Publication Date: 2007
Staff and clients from nontraditional programs for homeless individuals with serious mental illness (HMI) face barriers when trying to transfer client care from street-based services to traditional community mental health centers or organizations (CMHCs). Yet little is known about the extent of those barriers, reported causes, and consequences. In all, 255 mental health supervisors or designees from three programs across the United States that se...
Author(s): J. Bucher, Katharine Thomas, D. Guzman, Elise Riley, N. Dela Cruz, David R. Bangsberg
Publication Date: 2007
Background: Standard two-step HIV testing is limited by poor return-for-results rates and misses high-risk individuals who do not access conventional testing facilities. Methods: We describe a community-based rapid HIV testing programme in which homeless and marginally housed adults recruited from shelters, free meal programmes and single room occupancy hotels in San Francisco received OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody testing (OraSure Technologi...
Author(s): Karen Corsi, Carol Kwiatkowski, Robert Booth
Publication Date: 2007
This study examines entry into drug treatment among 491 street-recruited injection drug users in Denver, Colorado. The primary outcome was treatment entry within 6 months. Univariate tests were run using chi-square t-test analyses. Significant variables were included in a multiple logistic regression. Results showed that having more outreach contacts, not being homeless, having fewer problems with alcohol but more problems with drugs, and the con...
Author(s): Tonia Jones
The article presents an abstract of a dissertation on the relationship between biological and psychosocial factors, health behaviors, sociodemographic variables and immunologic response to hepatitis B vaccination in homeless adults in the U.S. It mentions that there were 135 hepatitis B-negative homeless adults who were involved in the study. (Harvard Libraries)
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...
Author(s): An-Lin Cheng, HaiQun Lin, Wesley J. Kasprow, Robert Rosenheck
Publication Date: 2007
In 1992, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established the HUD-VA Supported Housing (HUD-VASH) Program to provide integrated clinical and housing services to homeless veterans with psychiatric and/or substance abuse disorders at 19 sites. At four sites, 460 subjects were randomly assigned to one of the three groups: (1) HUD-VASH, with both Section 8 vouchers and intensive case...
Author(s): Doreen Rosenthal, Shelley Mallett, Lyle Gurrin
Publication Date: 2007
A cross-national survey was conducted among 358 recently homeless young people in Melbourne and Los Angeles. Drug dependence and mental illness were assessed at baseline, 6 and 12 months. At each time point, participants were classified as no condition, drug dependent, having a mental illness or dual condition. Low levels of drug dependence or mental illness or both were reported at each data point. Most young people were classified as neither dr...
Author(s): Amy Markowitz, Stephen McPhee
Publication Date: 2007
This article describes the unique conditions of a doctor/patient relationship when the patient is homeless. For obvious reason, homeless people have difficulty preparing for death but effective palliative care can still be administered by clinicians. The authors present the case of Dr. E and his patient Mr. K, a homeless man dying from renal failure. Dr. E managed to forge a trusting relationship with Mr. K, who had never followed through on prev...
Publication Date: 2007
The article presents information on a study regarding homeless youth. According to Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, studies suggest that comprehensive intervention reduces substance abuse and improve mental health. 180 youth aging between 14 and 22 were studied and reduction in depression scores and drug and alcohol abuse was noticed in the studies. (Harvard Library)
Author(s): Roseanne Flores
Publication Date: 2007
The purpose of the present study was to compare the understanding of conventional time concepts by urban preschool children reared in poverty with that of their peers not raised in poverty. The questionnaire used in this study was based on the original work of Ames. Thirty-six children ranging in age from three to five years of age participated in the study. Twelve attended a Head Start program for homeless children, 12 lived in low-income housin...
Author(s): Ed Brock
Publication Date: 2007
The article reports on cities' response to the rising demand for emergency food assistance and shelter in the U.S. The U.S. Conference of Mayors' (USCM) Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness is working with members of Congress to increase funding for Community Development Block Grants and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Emergency Shelter Grants that can be used for housing and other services. (Harvard Libraries)
Author(s): Mental Health Weekly
Publication Date: 2007
The article reports on the announcement of California officials regarding its plan to provide funds from its Proposition 63 tax to construct 10, 000 new housing units for homeless mentally-ill people in January 2007. The plan depicts the first major initiative to give forth from funds raised by the Proposition 63, which is also known as the Mental Health Services Act. It aims to leverage the funds with other funding sources and to find multiple r...