Tags: Research

resource

This article describes the commonalities between the Housing First model and the tenets of domestic violence victim advocacy work and explores how Housing First can be adapted to effectively...

resource

resource

The gap-mending concept is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals...

resource

This research examined the sustainability of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi Housing First (HF) programmes for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase...

resource

Melissa Bird, Harmony Rhoades, John Lahey, Julie Cederbaum and Suzanne Wenzel ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand goals and the gender differences in goals among men and women who...

resource

Kaylene Zaretzky, Paul Flatau, Bridget Spicer, Elizabeth Conroy & Lucy Burns This research provides a significant economic argument for government intervention to break the cycle of homelessness as the...

resource

Existing research demonstrates that mean health care costs incurred by those experiencing homelessness are high. However, high mean health care costs mask the fact that a sizeable number of...

resource

Abstract Objective No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesised that CHF and SHF would be associated...

resource

Objective: To determine whether two Housing First configurations (scattered site versus congregated site ) are associated with different health-related outcomes. Methods: This ecological study employed a longitudinal, quantitative...

resource

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: “Housing First” has been shown to improve housing stability in homeless individuals with mental illness, but had not been empirically tested in homeless youth. We aimed...