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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"homeless shelters"”.
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Supporting Breastfeeding Among Women Residing In Homeless Shelters
<p>In general, homeless women face many challenges including intimate partner violence, abuse history, mental illness, chemical dependence, alcohol abuse, smoking, medical co-morbidities, lack of permanent address, or any combination of the aforementioned (Vijayaraghavan, et al., 2012). Adding …
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Interior design in the realm of social services: Housing the homeless
… study plans to investigate the social issues of homelessness and the strategies for creating positive living environments that aim to enable inhabitants to re-enter society. Supported by statistical evidence, homelessness has been recognized as a growing issue in the United States that deserves …
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A program evaluation of a structured homeless shelter
This study compared homeless shelters, one was a structured homeless shelter and the other a non-structured homeless shelter, evaluating the residents' level of social functioning and level of self-sufficiency at both shelters. A structured shelter may offer counseling, parenting classes, money …
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Exploring the individual and organizational effects of formerly homeless employee inclusion within North Carolina shelters
… and organizational effects of formerly homeless employee inclusion on members of the homeless shelter community, including shelter directors, formerly homeless employees, professional employees, and shelter residents. The effects of formerly homeless employee inclusion on shelter …
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Describing Human Resource Development in Illinois Social Service Organizations
… or chief executive officer in ail Illinois homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, and child crisis centers to describe the HRD profiles of their organizations. The profiles examined the frequency of HRD activities, the job functions responsible for HRD, and the barriers to HRD in the …
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Crossing the Line: Experiences of the Formerly Homeless Living Past Homelessness
… study explored the experiences of formerly homeless individuals and families who have moved from homelessness into stable housing. This was an ethnographic study and involved the researcher staying in an east coast shelter where some of the formerly homeless participants had become staff …
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
… in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow and dozens of the city's homeless froze to death. By April, anarchist throngs had paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled New York's Union Square demanding "Bread of Revolution." Then, on …
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Urban temporal storage : re-thinking the public domain using interstitial space in NYC
… interstitial spaces as a tool to integrate the homeless issue in the dynamic of the city. The aim is to encourage public intervention that soften the threshold between disparate urban classes, while fulfilling several civic functions, the most important of which is to explore new, safe, and …
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The Importance of the Relationship Between Domestic Violence Victims and Their Pets
… study collected data from domestic violence and homeless shelters across the United States by sending a questionnaire via email. Two themes emerged based on the questionnaire responses, first, shelters reported that victims disclosed their fear of leaving an abusive situation due to abuse or …
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Under the Bridge: A Qualitative Investigation of Homeless Persons' Perspectives on Substance Abuse and Its Treatment
Although homelessness is generally thought of as an urban problem, it is also a growing problem in rural areas, such as Missoula, Montana (Jacobson 2010). Studies of urban homelessness indicate that substance abuse is a part of life for many homeless individuals, and the barriers to substance abuse …
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Under the Bridge: A Qualitative Investigation of Homeless Persons' Perspectives on Substance Abuse and Its Treatment
Although homelessness is generally thought of as an urban problem, it is also a growing problem in rural areas, such as Missoula, Montana (Jacobson 2010). Studies of urban homelessness indicate that substance abuse is a part of life for many homeless individuals, and the barriers to substance abuse …
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Building against vacancy : space, shelter, and support for LGBTQ homeless youth on double vacant lots in NYC
… York City-owned vacant lot in Harlem to serve homeless LGBTQ youth. The City of New York maintains the condition of vacancy scattered throughout the five boroughs where, The Department of Housing Preservation and Development owns over 1,300 empty lots. While these spaces may be viewed as real …
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Permanent Shelter in The Empire City: Youth Experiencing Family Homelessness and Navigating the Homeless Industrial Complex with a Narrative Inquiry Approach
… have examined unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness; however, a relative silence persists about the lives of youth and young adults (YYA) while in family homeless shelters. This study aims to fill the gap in the literature about the lives of youth residing in family shelters and to learn …
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The clinic and the community: exploring the role of the designed environment in the creation of social value
… for low income women, was addressed through homeless shelters, transition homes, and community resource centers. The idea of social value creation was also examined from a cross-cultural perspective, examining one case in detail and several smaller cases from India. Each site was visited in …
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A Decent Place to Stay: Housing Crises, Failed Laws, and Property Conflicts in Washington, D.C
<p>In 1978 the District of Columbia City Council enacted a measure to tax up to 97 percent of the profits on speculative housing sales. In 1984 the District of Columbia voters approved an initiative to guarantee every resident who needed it access to overnight shelter for every night of the year. …
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Homeless Mothers' Perceptions of Parenting in Shelters
Descriptions of parenting in a homeless shelter were obtained from nine single mothers housed in one of two shelters in a major southwestern border metroplex. Case study methodology was used to obtain their perspectives on parenting in this unique context. Content analysis was used to organize and …