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Sustainability of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System: The State of Services Integration and Systems Change in Participating Communities as a Federal Demonstration Ends
Martha R. Burt
The Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of Supportive Housing, funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services was designed to explore the effects of providing housing and intensive services to high-need families in the child welfare system. Demonstration sites created new service delivery structures to accomplish set...
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North America
2016 Advocates Guide
The Advocates’ Guide: An Educational Primer on Federal Programs and Resources Related to Affordable Housing and Community Development, is a guide to affordable housing with useful resources and practical know-how written by leading experts in the affordable housing and community development field with a singular purpose—to educate...
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North America
Veterans and Homelessness
Libby Perl
This research addresses the issue of veterans in general and veterans experiencing homelessness keeping in mind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It looks at various programs created to serve veterans experiencing homelessness by Congress of which most of them are funded through the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of...
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North America
Systems Work Better Together: Strengthening Public Workforce & Homeless Service Systems Collaboration
Tara Maguire
Caitlin C. Schnur
Chris Warland
Melissa Young
Melissa Young
Drawing from in-depth interviews with public workforce and homeless service systems leaders and the work of our five Connections Project sites, this paper identifies common barriers to public workforce and homeless service systems collaboration and recommends how to address these barriers in order to help ensure that homeless and...
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North America
Understanding the Success of Chicago’s Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative
All Chicago
The Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI) is an effort by local, regional, and federal partners to end and prevent homelessness among veterans in the city of Chicago through a coordinated, data-driven process. The initiative built off the momentum of multiple national efforts, including 25 Cities, Built for Zero, and the Mayor’s...
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North America
Coordinated Entry System Refinement Lab Chicago Action Agenda and Continuum of Care
Corporation for Supportive Housing
This report outlines the coordinated entry system (CES) in Chicago, USA. According to this source, a CES is a collaborative effort wherein all providers of homeless housing and services in the community work together to ensure that from the moment a household first presents a housing crisis, there is a clear, consistent path towards...
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North America
Supportive Housing and Healthcare Utilization Outcomes State of the Literature
This source discusses the intersection of homelessness and healthcare utilization. According to this literature review, supportive housing can facilitate stronger connections to primary care and more appropriate healthcare utilization by providing a stable environment in which to manage health and by connecting individuals to services...
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North America
A transitional housing program for older foster youth: How do youth fare after exiting?
Sonja Lenz-Rashid
This research journal evaluates the Bay Area Youth Center's Real Alternatives for Adolescents (RAFA) transitional housing program in Hayward, California.  The study examines RAFA as a possible preventative intervention against future homelessness, unemployment, lack of educational attainment, receipt of public assistance, and early...
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North America
Still Hungry and Homeless in College
Clare Cady
Anthony Hernandez
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Jed Richardson
and Joel Schneider
This is the largest national survey assessing the basic needs security of university students. It is the HOPE Lab’s 3rd national survey; the other two focused on community colleges. This year we report on 43,000 students at 66 institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia. That includes over 20,000 students at 35 4-year colleges...
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North America
Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness
Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention
The Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 - 2023 is a five-year plan that includes a set of long-term solutions providing the types of systemic reforms necessary to take a truly collaborative approach to end homelessness in our community and serve as a catalyst to developing real solutions for this urgent need.  The goal...
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North America
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