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Head Start Children and Families Experiencing

Head Start Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Trends, Characteristics, and Program Services

This research brief presents findings on the characteristics of Head Start children and families that experienced homelessness, as well as services Head Start programs reported providing to these vulnerable children and families, using data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey. Trends in the percentages of Hea
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Homeless Families Research Briefs

Homeless Families Research Briefs

This project produced a series of research briefs on issues related to the well-being and economic self-sufficiency of families and children experiencing homelessness. The briefs are based on data collected as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Family Options Study, a multi-site random assignment experiment desi
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Child and Partner Transitions among Families

Child and Partner Transitions among Families Experiencing Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study finds that about 30 percent of sheltered homeless families reported a separation from at least one family member. Family transitions continued in the following 20 months, with 10 percent of families experiencing new child separations and 8 percent reporting reunification with children who had no
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Well-Being of Young Children Experiencing

Well-Being of Young Children after Experiencing Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study shows that twenty months after staying in an emergency shelter with their families, young children scored worse in pre-reading skills and had higher rates of overall behavior problems and early development delays compared to national norms for children their age. However, they displayed only sma
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HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End

HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: An Evaluation of an Initiative to Improve Coordination and Service Delivery of Homeless Services Networks

By: Greg A Greenberg, PhD Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VAMC West Haven, CT, Yale University Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT and Robert A Rosenheck, MD Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VAMC West Haven, CT, VA New England Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center; Yale University Department of Psyc
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HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End

HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: Preliminary Client Outcomes Report

By: Alvin S. Mares, Ph.D., M.S.W. Project Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center and Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC) VA Connecticut Healthcare System
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HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End

HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: Is System Integration Associated with Client Outcomes?

By: Alvin S. Mares, Ph.D., M.S.W. (1, 2, 3) Greg A. Greenberg, Ph.D. (1, 2) Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. (1, 2, 4, 5)
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Research on Early Childhood Homelessness

Research on Early Childhood Homelessness

This infographic shows that, in the United States, infancy is the age at which individuals are most likely to enter shelter or transitional housing, followed by ages one to five, and homelessness during pregnancy and in the early years is harmful to children’s development. Given the research showing the importance of addressing early childhood h
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Summary of CICH Interim Reports

Summary of CICH Interim Reports

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Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially Supports Faith-Based Social Services

Luis Lugo, Director of the Religion Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, has developed a nine-point scale in describing the variety of ways that the government can support faith-based agencies in organizations in their delivery of social welfare services.  The nine types of government support — ordered from high to low in terms of general pub
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Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC

NSHAPC covered 16 different types of homeless assistance programs, defined as follows:
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Appendices

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendices

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Adolescent Well-Being after Experiencing Family

Adolescent Well-Being after Experiencing Family Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study of adolescents’ experiences in shelter with their families and 20 months later shows that most adolescents continued to live with their families, and some continued to experience housing instability or live in overcrowded situations. These adolescents were more likely to have changed schools o
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Health Coverage for Homeless and At-Risk Youth

Health Coverage for Homeless and At-Risk Youth

This fact sheet explores eligibility for health care coverage, including through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), for youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness. It provides information on subpopulations of youth who are likely to be eligible for health care coverage, which services are covered, and how to enroll.
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Are Homeless Families Connected to the Social

Are Homeless Families Connected to the Social Safety Net?

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study of families' experiences in shelter and 20 months later shows that families experiencing homelessness are generally connected to public benefits at similar rates to other families in deep poverty. This non-experimental analysis finds that homeless families receive TANF, publicly funded health i
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Human Services and Housing Supports to Address

Human Services and Housing Supports to Address Family Homelessness: Promising Practices in the Field

From: Human Services and Housing Supports to Address Family Homelessness: Promising Practices in the Field
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Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research

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Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action

Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action

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Conclusions

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Conclusions

Faith-based and other community-based non-profit organizations have a long history of helping people in need.  The NSHAPC data analyzed here provide yet more evidence of the continuing importance of faith-based organizations in serving people who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness.  Faith-based non-profits run the majority of homeless
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Government Funding of Homeless Assistance Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Government Funding of Homeless Assistance Programs

Revenue streams in non-profit organizations are “a complex mix of private and public dollars raised through grants, contracts, fees for services, sales, donations, investment income, special events income, and income from commercial ventures” (Boris 1998) and NSHAPC collected only very limited funding information from service providers.  The

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