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Introducing Housing First in a Rural Service System: A Multistakeholder Perspective
Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
Year: 2014
Housing First (HF) represents a fundamental shift in thinking about how to address chronic homelessness that has taken place during the past two decades. Whether and how the logic of HF fits in rural systems of care has not been … Continue reading
The Relationship between Community Investment in Permanent Supportive Housing and Chronic Homelessness
Social Service Review
Year: 2014
In recent years, permanent supportive housing (PSH) has emerged as the preferred intervention for addressing chronic homelessness in the United States. However, almost all prior studies examining the effectiveness of PSH have been conducted at the individual level, with only … Continue reading
What happens to household formation in a recession?
Journal of Urban Economics
Year: 2013
While many studies have investigated the determinants of housing demand, very few studies have focused on how economic conditions affect the formation of potential households directly. Potential households may choose to delay entry into the housing market by remaining with … Continue reading
Transitioning from Homelessness: A “Fresh-Start” Event
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Year: 2013
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has been recognized as central to the goal of ending chronic homelessness. This qualitative study considers the positive and negative expectations of 31 men and women in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles who are … Continue reading
The Beliefs of Homeless Service Managers About Policy Advocacy: Definitions, Legal Understanding, and Motivations to Participate
Administration in Social Work
Year: 2013
Policy advocacy involvement by human service providers is important to help protect vital services and government funding streams, but for many organizations participation is limited. Meanwhile, scholars know little about managers’ beliefs about advocacy, compromising our ability to create effective … Continue reading
Permanent Supportive Housing: Addressing Homelessness and Health Disparities?
American Journal of Public Health
Year: 2013
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address long-term homelessness. Evidence has resulted in a shift in US policy toward using PSH rather than shelters and transitional housing. Despite recognizing that individuals transitioning from homelessness to PSH experience a … Continue reading
Interlocking Boards of Trustees and Grant Acquisition Among Homeless Service Organizations
Public Performance & Management Review
Year: 2013
Research on trustee effectiveness has traditionally focused on board attributes like size and demographics, but networks are a better mechanism to consider the implications of boards for resource procurement. This research utilizes board of trustee interlocks from a sample of … Continue reading
Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Identifying Homeless Adults in Crisis
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
The triage tool, or crisis indicator, identifies homeless individuals in hospitals and jails who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs. This redesigned tool is four times more accurate than the earlier screening tool released … Continue reading
Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
This study evaluates outcomes from April 2011 to May 2013 for 163 hospital patients screened by the 10th Decile Project in Los Angeles, which works with hospitals to identify the 10 percent of homeless patients with the highest public and … Continue reading
Homeless but Connected: The Role of Heterogeneous Social Network Ties and Social Networking Technology in the Mental Health Outcomes of Street-Living Youth
Community Mental Health Journal
Year: 2012
Although social integration tends to have positive effects on the mental health of housed adolescents, the role of homeless adolescents’ social networks is more ambiguous. Social network data were collected from 136 homeless adolescents in Hollywood, California to examine how … Continue reading