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A Guide To Counting Unsheltered Homeless People
...al programs within a local homeless assistance network. Collecting good baseline data about this subpopulation is essential to understanding the causes of homelessness and to designing effective respo...
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Tags: counts; counting methodology; street population;
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Assessing Homeless Population Size Through the Use of Emergency and...
OBJECTIVES: This study reports findings from the first-ever systematic enumeration of homeless population size using data previously collected from administrative records of homeless services provider...
Authors: Metraux, Stephen;Culhane, Dennis;Raphael, Stacy...
Tags: counts;counting methodology;street population;
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Barriers To Transferring Care of Homeless People With Serious Menta...
...ndividuals with serious mental illness (HMI) face barriers when trying to transfer client care from street-based services to traditional community mental health centers or organizations (CMHCs). Yet l...
Authors: Page, Jaimie;
Tags: mental health;street population;health care sys...
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Dark Days
In the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn Station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home...
Authors: Singer, Mark;
Tags: tool kits/curricula/training materials;local da...
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December
Simon and his mom don't have much--the cardboard house they built for themselves, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel pinned to one wall. On Christmas Eve they take in a frail stranger wh...
Authors: Bunting, Eve;
Tags: children;street population;
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Estimating Homeless Populations through Structural Equation Modeling
This article overviews the results from a test of a model of homeless populations throughout the 3,141 counties of the United States. The data were extracted from the 1990 Census, a Census Bureau surv...
Authors: Hudson, Christopher G.;
Tags: research and evaluation;street population;
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Every Success Story is A Great Story
This handsome and moving booklet tells the personal stories of sixteen Health Care for the Homeless clients and their struggle to overcome homelessness. It will prove useful for client support, public...
Authors: Olivet, Jeff;
Tags: personal accounts;street population;substance u...
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Ex-Servicemen on the Road: Travel and Homelessness
... literature has recently attempted to address the transitory characteristics of the single homeless population. In this paper I contribute to this focus by arguing that one way in which to account for...
Authors: Higate, Paul;
Tags: street population;
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Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street
... of kindness, humor and even heroism alongside the expected violence and desperation of life on the street. There is always room, Stringer writes, "amid the costume" jewel glitter...for one more diamo...
Authors: Stringer, Lee;
Tags: substance use;street population;consumer involv...
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Health and Access to Care: Perspectives of Homeless Youth in Baltim...
... and continue to seek advice from parents and other family members. Health interventions with urban street youth need to acknowledge the primacy of the social context for these youth, as well as the r...
Authors: Ensign, Jo ;Gittelsohn, Joel;
Tags: youth;health;local data/report;street population;
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