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Standards of Excellence for Outreach Programs/Engagement Services, Emergency/Crisis/Interim Housing, and Permanent Supportive Housing
Home for Good
Year: 2014
The Standards of Excellence are a set of performance goals and quality standards for outreach programs / engagement services, emergency / crisis / interim housing, and permanent supportive housing. More importantly, they are a framework for applying Housing First principles … Continue reading
Quality of life after housing first for adults with serious mental illness who have experienced chronic homelessness
Psychiatry Research
Year: 2014
This 1-year longitudinal study of adults who have recently transitioned from homelessness to Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) focuses on quality of life as a primary outcome of interest. Eighty of 103 new tenants participated in structured interviews at the time … Continue reading
Service Integration to Reduce Homelessness in Los Angeles County: Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives
Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance
Year: 2014
Homeless people are among the most marginalized individuals in the United States and experience significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Los Angeles County, California, has the highest concentration of homeless individuals in the nation, and although it features the largest … Continue reading
From Skid Row to the Statehouse: How Nonprofit Homeless Service Providers Overcome Barriers to Policy Advocacy Involvement
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2014
Human service nonprofits are thought to be critical players in advocating on behalf of marginalized communities and improved service delivery mechanisms. However, as human service nonprofits are organized primarily to provide services, not to conduct advocacy, their managers face substantial … Continue reading
Innovations in NYC Health & Human Services Policy: Street Homelessness and Supportive Housing
Urban Institute
Year: 2014
Under the Bloomberg administration, New York City has become a national model for how to reduce unsheltered and chronic homelessness. This policy brief—based on interviews with city officials, service providers, and national experts, as well as a review of public … Continue reading
Introducing Housing First in a Rural Service System: A Multistakeholder Perspective
Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
Year: 2014
Housing First (HF) represents a fundamental shift in thinking about how to address chronic homelessness that has taken place during the past two decades. Whether and how the logic of HF fits in rural systems of care has not been … Continue reading
The Relationship between Community Investment in Permanent Supportive Housing and Chronic Homelessness
Social Service Review
Year: 2014
In recent years, permanent supportive housing (PSH) has emerged as the preferred intervention for addressing chronic homelessness in the United States. However, almost all prior studies examining the effectiveness of PSH have been conducted at the individual level, with only … Continue reading
Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
This study evaluates outcomes from April 2011 to May 2013 for 163 hospital patients screened by the 10th Decile Project in Los Angeles, which works with hospitals to identify the 10 percent of homeless patients with the highest public and … Continue reading
The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2013
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
The 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2013
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR). AHAR provides a national estimate of homelessness and presents a comprehensive understanding of who uses local shelter systems and how these systems are used. HUD has … Continue reading