Homeless Service Programs A Study Of Its Effectiveness In Alleviating Homelessness In The City Of Springfield Ma

Author : Luis Santiago-Gaetan
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783960675914

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Homeless Service Programs. A Study of its Effectiveness in Alleviating Homelessness in the City of Springfield, MA by Luis Santiago-Gaetan Pdf

This research project studied the broad subject of homelessness from a distinctive perspective. Homeless individuals have different needs, and different human services organizations offer many homeless service programs to individuals, from temporary shelter to transitional housing, and training and health programs among others. Nonetheless, the most important service needed for homeless individuals should be the one that leads to permanent housing solutions. However, findings from this research study suggested that not all homeless service programs are as effective in alleviating homelessness in the community, as most have been led to believe in the past. Therefore, the required question had to be, how effective are homeless service programs in alleviating homelessness in the City of Springfield MA? Finding an answer to that question was the primary reason for this research. This research study sought to know more about the effectiveness of two distinctive service programs, which although similar in services offered, both operate with completely different funding and visions on how to solve the homelessness problem in the community. Perhaps, this study may someday contribute to further research efforts on the subject, help develop or create more effective programs, or even helps alleviate the growing homeless problem in the community. Nevertheless, as for any other research project, there are limitations to this study. This research is limited to the study of two different homeless service programs in the City of Springfield, Massachusetts. Moreover, program effectiveness was solely measured on the programs abilities to provide permanent housing options to its clients in direct relation to their resources for the purpose to alleviate the problem in the community. A brief roadmap for this master’s thesis research project starts with the introduction to the subject, followed by the review of the existing relevant literature. The community assessment begins with the community description and the research and gathering of data from stakeholders directly and indirectly affected by the problem. Lastly, the action plan, which details a plan of action based on the conclusion of the findings of all the information and data gathered.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113945344

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Strategies for Reducing Chronic Street Homelessness by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309477079

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Permanent Supportive Housing by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals Pdf

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1600212085

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Homelessness by Martha R. Burt Pdf

Homelessness prevention is an essential element of any effort to end homelessness either locally or nation-wide. To close the front door of entry into homelessness, the central challenge of prevention is targeting our efforts toward those people that will become homeless without the intervention. This book identifies elements of community homelessness prevention strategies that seem to lead to reductions in the number of people who otherwise would become homeless. The contributing elements include targeting through control of the eligibility screening process; developing community motivation; maximising mainstream and private resources; fostering leadership; and ensuring the availability and structure of data and information used to track progress, improve on prevention efforts, and facilitate outcome-based contracting. Evidence from the six communities studied indicates that those employing the most elements seem to be more successful at prevention and better able to document their achievements. This book also identifies four promising homelessness prevention activities that may be used alone or in combination as part of a coherent community-wide strategy: (1) supportive services coupled with permanent housing, particularly when combined with effective discharge from institutions, especially mental hospitals; (2) mediation in Housing Courts; (3) cash assistance for rent or mortgage arrears; and (4) rapid exit from shelter. This study provides insight into approaches that will help prevent homelessness. It is an important contribution to our understanding of how to help homeless Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Homelessness
ISBN : UIUC:30112028987524

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Homelessness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : MINN:31951P01034890A

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Toward Understanding Homelessness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781437936810

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Strategies for Improving Homeless People's Access to Mainstream Benefits and Services by Martha R. Burt Pdf

In 2000, HUD, in recognition that any solution to homelessness must emphasize housing, targeted its McKinney-Vento Act homeless competitive programs towards housing activities. This policy decision presumed that programs such as Medicaid, TANF and General Assistance could pick up the slack produced by the change. This study examines how 7 communities sought to improve homeless people¿s access to mainstream services following this shift away from funding services through the Supportive Housing Program. Provides communities with models and strategies that they can use. Highlights the limits of what even the most resourceful of communities can do to enhance service and benefit access by homeless families and individuals.

Author : Heather Larkin,Amanda Aykanian,Calvin L. Streeter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030037266

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Homelessness Prevention and Intervention in Social Work by Heather Larkin,Amanda Aykanian,Calvin L. Streeter Pdf

This important text provides a comprehensive survey of homelessness in America: its scope and causes, its diverse populations, and the array of responses at the individual, community, and systems levels. Expert contributors explore the links between trauma and homelessness, the cycle of homelessness and health/mental health problems, and barriers preventing people from accessing services. Case studies of effective programs and practices focus on science-based interventions, broad understanding of client needs, and close coordination between systems and agencies. Finally, specialized chapters discuss issues and experiences common to homeless youth and young adults, including housing instability on college campuses and empowerment-based strategies for engaging youth voice in programming . Included in the coverage: Homelessness and health disparities: a health equity lens Affordable housing and housing policy responses to homelessness Street talk: homeless discourses and the politics of service provision Multisectoral collaborations to address homelessness Trauma-informed care in homelessness service settings: challenges and opportunities Incorporating youth voice into services for young people experiencing homelessness Homelessness Prevention and Intervention in Social Work fills a critical gap in the social work curriculum as a main or a supplementary text. It also makes an accessible resource for clinicians and community practitioners seeking current knowledge on the topic, practical approaches to working with clients experiencing homelessness, and useful information for effective program and policy design.

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Homelessness
ISBN : OCLC:1358648277

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Homelessness by Martha R. Burt Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Health Care for Homeless People
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309038324

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Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Health Care for Homeless People Pdf

There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Author : Marybeth Shinn,Jill Khadduri
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119104759

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In the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth Shinn,Jill Khadduri Pdf

Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by bringing together the best scholarship on the subject and sharing solutions that both local communities and national policy-makers can apply now. In the Midst of Plenty shifts understanding of homelessness away from individual disability to larger contexts of poverty, income inequality, housing affordability, and social exclusion. Homelessness experts Shinn and Khadduri provide guidance on how to end homelessness for people who experience it and how to prevent so many people from reaching the point where they have no alternative to sleeping on the street or in emergency shelters. The authors show that we know how to end homelessness—if we devote the necessary resources to doing so. In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What to Do About It is an excellent resource for policy-makers, professionals in the homeless services system, and anyone else who wants to end homelessness. It also can serve as a text in undergraduate or masters courses in public policy, sociology, psychology, social work, urban studies, or housing policy. "The knowledgeable and thoughtful authors of this book—two brilliant women who know as much as anyone in the country about the nature of homelessness and its solutions—have done a great service by taking us on a journey through the history of homelessness, how our responses have changed, and how we can end it." —Nan Roman, President and CEO National Alliance to End Homelessness. "Shinn and Khadduri's new book is a thorough yet concise examination of what we know about the nature and causes of homelessness, and the crucial lessons learned. This critically important work provides a roadmap to restoring basic housing and income security as viable policy options, in the face of our daunting inequality divide that otherwise threatens millions with destitution and homelessness." —Dennis Culhane, Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania "Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri have combined their significant expertise to create an essential guide about the history of modern homelessness and to offer a clear path forward to end this American tragedy. Their policy recommendations on ending homelessness are culled from the best about what we know works." —Barbara Poppe, Executive Director US Interagency Council on Homeless, 2009-2014

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761927518

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Encyclopedia of Homelessness by David Levinson Pdf

A readerʼs guide is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into 14 general categories: Causes, Cities, Demography and Characteristics, Health issues, History, Housing, Legal issues, Advocacy and policy, Lifestyle issues, Organizations, Perceptions of homelessness, Populations, Research, Service systems and settings, World perspectives and issues.

Author : Barbara Duffield,Mary Ann Gleason,National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015059201916

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Homelessness in America by Barbara Duffield,Mary Ann Gleason,National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) Pdf

Examines how Americans have fared in efforts to address the problem of homelessness, what we have learned, and what we need to do to end the problem and ensure that homelessness is not part of America's future. Examines the findings of detailed research on homelessness in urban, rural, and suburban communities and states. Draws conclusions and outlines future directions. Provides profiles of homelessness in each of the locations which examines the origins of homelessness and summarizes research from the mid-1980s to the present. Includes interviews with fed. gov't. officials, and state and local providers and advocates, and nat. advocates

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : OSU:32435062409040

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Sociocultural and Service Issues in Working with Homeless Clients by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. Stevens Redburn,Terry F. Buss
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038104647

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Responding to America's Homeless by F. Stevens Redburn,Terry F. Buss Pdf

This useful and clearly written book provides a discussionof the major issues involved in dealing with the homeless, summarizes information available from a number of studies, and draws conclusions about current public policy and future policy alternatives. . . . An important addition to any library dealing with contemporary social concerns. Choice The homeless have become more and more numerous and visible in our society. Responding to America's Homeless presents the most complete, up-to-date scientific evidence concerning the nature, extent, and causes of homelessness. Using an unprecedented survey of 1,000 homeless individuals and families, as well as previous national, local, and scholarly research, the authors draw a vivid portrait of the homeless population and their needs. They challenge the widely held view that most homeless are mentally ill, proposing an original classification of the homeless based on needs for various forms of assistance. On the basis of this empirical research, the authors evaluate current public policies for dealing with the homeless and present alternative plans aimed at returning homeless people to more normal, secure circumstances.