1. Understanding Homelessness
  2. Demographics
  3. Demographics

Race/Ethnicity/Caste

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Resources

The effectiveness of a Housing First adaptation for ethnic minority groups: findings of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Vicky Stergiopoulos
Agnes Gozdzik
Vachan Misir
Anna Skosireva
Aseefa Sarang
Jo Connelly
Adam Whisler
Kwame McKenzie
Little is known about the effectiveness of Housing First (HF) among ethnic minority groups, despite its growing popularity for homeless adults experiencing mental illness. This randomized controlled trial tests the effectiveness of a HF...
Region:
North America
U.S. Minority Homeless Youth’s Access to and Use of Mobile Phones: Implications for mHealth Intervention Design
Larissa Jennings
Nicole Lee
Deborah Shore
Nancy Strohminger
Burgundi Allison
Donaldson F. Conserve
Lawrence J. Cheskin
Few interventions for homeless youth have leveraged the potential of mHealth technologies, in part because of the limited data on phone behaviors, perceptions, and intervention preferences among youth experiencing homelessness. This study...
Region:
North America
Differential experiences of discrimination among ethnoracially diverse persons experiencing mental illness and homelessness
Suzanne Zerger
Sarah Bacon
Simon Corneau
Anna Skosireva
Kwame McKenzie
Susan Gapka
Patricia O'Campo
Aseefa Sarang
Vicky Stergiopoulos
This mixed methods study explored the characteristics of and experiences with perceived discrimination in an ethnically diverse urban sample of adults experiencing homelessness and mental illness.  Data were collected in Toronto, Ontario,...
Region:
North America
Poverty and ethnicity in Scotland
Gina Netto
Filip Sosenko
Glen Bramley
The size, make-up and settlement patterns of minority ethnic communities are significantly different in devolved Scotland from those in England. Little attention has been given to systematically examining the relationship between poverty...
Region:
Europe
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