Drawing on a nationally representative sample of interviews with homeless people who use services and with service providers in several large cities, the authors explore the efforts of various states and localities to provide emergency services to homeless people, to help them get out of homelessness, and to prevent homelessness. They find that services and programs to help people work their way out of their homelessness and to prevent homelessness are not well developed, and that the level of interest in finding solutions and the levels of funding to create these solutions vary greatly from state to state.

America's Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and Programs That Serve Them (Urban Institute Report, 89-3)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, Barbara E.

Burt, Martha R.

Social Sciences

Urban Inst Pr

America's Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and Programs That Serve Them (Urban Institute Report 89-3)

<p>The rising poverty and unemployment rates triggered by the recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure social safety net. Such programs should provide economic security, protect vulnerable families, and promote equality—but the United States falls behind other countries in accomplishing these goals. In Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net, Martha R. Burt and Demetra Smith Nightingale encourage strengthening the safety net and making a national commitment to end poverty.</p>

Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net (Urban Institute Press)

Business & Money

Nightingale, Demetra Smith

Economics

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

<p>A text that grew from a research project sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services in 1992. The authors provide overviews of nine programs directed towards at-risk youth, including the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Miami, the Oasis Center, Garfield Youth Services, and Teen Connections. Also included are chapters on the history of comprehensive service integration, a new conceptual framework for understanding risk, and a conclusion which reviews the critical ingredients for the development, replication, and expansion of effective youth programs and service integration efforts. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.</p>

Building Supportive Communities for At-Risk Adolescents: It Takes More Than Services

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Resnick, Gary

Novick, Emily R.

Mental Health

Amer Psychological Assn

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. 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. that may be used alone or in combination as part of a coherent community-wide strategy: supportive services coupled with permanent housing, particularly when combined with effective discharge from institutions, especially mental hospitals; mediation in Housing Courts; cash assistance for rent or mortgage arrears; and 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.

Homelessness: Prevention, Strategies And Effectiveness

Pearson, Carol L.

Montgomery, Ann Elizabeth

Nova Science Pub Inc

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