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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"emergency shelter"”.
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Supporting Emergency Shelter Staff: The Co-Design and Deployment of a Human-Centred Data-Navigation Interface
… co-design study with frontline staff at an emergency housing shelter in Canada: The Calgary Drop-In Centre. The homelessness sector encounters high rates of staff turnover due to mental health issues. If these issues interrupt important frontline work, vulnerable clients could miss the …
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The Massachusetts HomeBASE Program : lessons learned from a statewide housing-first policy for homeless families
… is the only state in the US to maintain an emergency shelter entitlement for homeless families with its own dedicated line item in the state budget. However, in the last decade that line item has increased by 134%. In fiscal year 2011, Massachusetts spent more money on homeless services …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… to a social assistance benefit for people in emergency housing need, and a campaign to increase the number and improve the conditions of emergency shelter beds. My research demonstrates the active and ongoing research and theorization that anti-poverty activists engage in as well as the …
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The hyperbolic lattice : morphology, kinematics, and potential applications
… and the design for a lightweight deployable emergency shelter. These applications share many criteria while spanning a wide range of scales and manufacturing methods. The mechanics of soft bodied organisms such as the worm and the sea anemone were observed to better understand the kinetic …
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Down and Out on the Kaw: An Examination of Emergency Shelters in Lawrence, Kansas.
… I formally interviewed 31 people made up of shelter employees, board members, and homeless clients of the Lawrence Community Shelter and the Salvation Army emergency shelter. Eight people defined themselves as homeless, six were members of advisory boards associated with the shelters, and 17 …
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Designing a Home Share Program for Asylum Seeking Migrants in New York City
… numbers of asylum-seeking migrants have sought shelter in New York City through the city’s shelter system. To provide shelter to asylum seekers, New York City expended shelter capacity by expanding services at congregate shelters, contracting with hotels to provide emergency shelter, and by …
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Data + disasters : rethinking the role of Metro Boston's data intermediaries in disaster management
… Digital tools such as maps that display emergency shelter locations or levels of E.Coli contamination in floodwaters are typically created and managed by a local data intermediary. A data intermediary is defined by the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership as a mediator between …
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Reciprocity: Seattle's Housed Community Hosts a Network of Villages for Seattle's Unhoused Families
… reducing the amount of time they wait to find shelter. Neighborhood site locations not only offer the resources necessary to nurture healthy families, such as grocery stores, medical clinics, schools, community centers, friends and playgrounds, but also the chance to grow a supportive social …
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Fast Assembly of Curved Structures from Flat Configuration
Imagine deploying an emergency shelter that transitions seamlessly from a flat configuration to a lifted structure, or a folded robot that is sent through a tunnel and subsequently activated to expand into a larger form at the endpoint, with a single, collective pull of strings. This scenario …
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Rehousing homeless families in Massachusetts : an analysis of "best practice" in Boston and Worcester
… and Community Development (DHCD). First, the shelters for homeless families in Massachusetts were at capacity, and over 1,000 homeless families had been placed in hotels and motels across the state. Second, Article 87 of the Amendments to the Constitution transferred the Commonwealth's …
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ReLife: Transitional Housing for Victims of Natural Disaster
… around the globe have left individuals without shelter. Governments have shown slow response for these victims with examples seen from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People are still living in structures that are hazardous to their health, insufficient for normal day activity, and socially …
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Families Moving Forward: Homeless Women with Children Transitioning to Independent Living
… housing, a step beyond the familiar short-term emergency shelter. Transitional housing typically shelters families for up to 2 years. During this extended stay, women participate in programs designed to assist them with addiction, mental health, domestic violence, parenting skills, nutrition, …
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Pathways to Homelessness: Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of Refugees Experiencing Homelessness in Canada
… most especially refugee claimants, accessing emergency shelters in Canada. Research to date has been limited on how the diversity of factors, such as refugee’s mental health experiences, could potentially play a role as pathways to shelter. The purpose of this study therefore is to explore the …
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From Shelter to Home: Flexibility in Post-Disaster Accommodation
… a disaster is the gap between shortterm needs (emergency or temporary shelter) and long-term needs (permanent housing). In most cases, the process of achieving permanent accommodation takes years for various reasons, such as the removal of debris and finding available land on which …