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A Nursing Model For Addressing The Health Needs Of Homeless Families
...percent belong to families without permanent shelter. This paper reviews recent research concerning homeless families and the conditions in which they live and outlines the significant health and ment...
Authors: Berne, Andrea; Dato, Candy; Mason, Diana; Raffe...
Tags: health & mental health; nursing interventions; ...
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Contexts of Mother–Child Separations in Homeless Families
Families that contend with the losses, disruptions, and hardships occasioned by homelessness often experience dispersal of children as well. Although a federal initiative on homeless families identifi...
Authors: Barrow, Susan M.; Lawinski, Terese;
Tags: homeless families; children; institutions;
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Defining a Social Problem: the Case of Family Homelessness
When family homelessness surfaced a decade ago as a serious social problem in this country, tis causes and solutions were characterized in starly polarized and unidimensional ways. At one end of the a...
Authors: Jacobs, FrancineH;
Tags: family;homeless families;social policy;services...
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Education for Homeless Children and Youth
Families with children are by most accounts among the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. In the United States an estimated 1.35 million from 600 thousand families will experience hom...
Authors: National Coalition for the Homeless;
Tags: homeless families; housing situations; risk for...
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Homeless Adolescent Parents: HIV Risk, Family Structure and Individ...
This study examined differences between homeless teenage fathers and mothers compared with nonparents. Overall, parents reported significantly more lifetime runaway episodes, more people growing up in...
Authors: Slesnick, N.; Bartle-Haring, S.; Glebova, T.; G...
Tags: homeless adolescents; homeless families; preven...
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Homeless Children and Parents: Short-Term Mental Health Outcome
... be detrimental to the mental health of these families even after rehousing.
Method: Thirty-five homeless families were assessed on their mental health (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Eyber...
Authors: Karim, Khalid; Tischler, Victoria; Gregory, Pet...
Tags: homeless families; mental health; housing; pare...
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Homeless children and youth: a new American dilemma
These 11 reports focus on policy responses to the needs of very young children who are part of a homeless family, and older young people who are homeless but on their own. The following chapters are i...
Authors: Kryder-Coe, Julee, H.; Salamon, Lester, M.; Mol...
Tags: homeless families; Homeless Children; street yo...
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Homeless Children and Youth: Causes and Consequences
...housing is a critical factor for positive child and youth development. Unfortunately, the number of homeless families with children has increased in recent years due to the lack of affordable housing....
Authors: Aratani, Yumiko;
Tags: homeless families; economic recession; stable h...
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Homeless Children: Problems and Needs
...itical evaluation of recent research the authors present a comprehensive review of the situation of homeless children and their families. Readers from all backgrounds will find this book of benefit as...
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Tags: Homeless Children; homeless families; education...
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Homeless Families with Children
There is a common misconception that homelessness is an issue that only pertains to single men and women, but in reality over 600,00 families a year will experience homelessness (Burt et al, The Urban...
Authors: National Coalition for the Homeless;
Tags: experiencing homelessness; economic turmoil; ho...
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