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Hewitt, Jennifer. "Young people, home and homelessness : a narrative exploration." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2014. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/71338/.
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This thesis explores the experiences of homeless young people with a particular focus on the process of making the journey out of homelessness. It consists of a literature review, a research paper and a critical appraisal. The literature review comprises a narrative approach exploring the meaning of ‘home’ in relation to the lives of homeless young people. It explores, synthesises and critically appraises a range of inter-disciplinary research to consider the physical, psychological and social dimensions to this concept. The review then considers the clinical implications of these ideas for supporting homeless young people to regain a sense of ‘home’ in their lives. The research paper explores the experiences of seven young people making the journey out of homelessness. The research, developed in collaboration with a research advisory group of young people, adopted a narrative methodology to explore participants’ stories. The findings are presented as a ‘shared story’ containing five chapters. The findings illustrate the psychological and social mediators which impact on young people’s experiences of navigating the journey out of homelessness. The contributions of these narratives are discussed in relation to guiding interventions to address the psychological wellbeing of homeless young people. Finally, the critical appraisal presents my reflections on the research journey and is divided into five chapters. The first chapter details my hopes and motivations when embarking on the research project. The second chapter reflects upon the process of how I conceptualised and planned the project, including the challenges I faced in attempting to do this this. The third chapter provides an account of my experience of undertaking the research project. Finally, the fourth chapter summarises my reflections about the future dissemination of the research and how my experiences conducting this research have impacted on my personal and professional development.
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Akilu, Fatima. "A multimethod investigation into the experience of single homelessness." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307003.
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Ehmling, Amelia E. "PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WITHIN MUSIC THERAPY SETTINGS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/106.
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The population of people experiencing homelessness has decreased less than 15% in the last ten years, but issues like mental illness and substance use are rising. There are many misconceptions about race, gender, location and age of people experiencing homelessness. Music therapy research about the homeless population is minimal and often focused on just one setting or treatment location. The purpose of this study was to better understand the relationship between music therapists and people experiencing homelessness. A survey of 365 music therapists in the United States revealed just under half of working clinicians provide services to people experiencing homelessness. Results from the survey revealed the most common settings where music therapists provided service to people experiencing homelessness were mental health, medical, and school systems. Additionally, the results discussed people experiencing homelessness’ demographic differences in clinician’s experiences versus annual reports. Results are not to be generalized but to be used as a tool to better understand people experiencing homelessness.
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Hodgson, Kate. "The mental health of young people with experiences of homelessness." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/59590/.
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Background: A link between youth homelessness and mental illness is recognised (Bines, 1994; Craig & Hodson, 1998; Kamieniecki, 2001; Whitbeck, Johnson, Hoyt, Cauce, 2004). However, very little empirically robust research has examined the role mental health plays in the lives of young homeless people, particularly in the United Kingdom. In the UK, approximately 80,000 young people are known to experience homelessness each year. The actual figure is likely to be far larger as it does not take into account those young people who are ‘hidden homeless’ (DePaul UK, 2013). Young people with experiences of homelessness represent a highly vulnerable group in terms of their mental health (Hodgson, Shelton, van den Bree & Los, 2013). This thesis aimed to explore the relationship between psychopathology and youth homelessness and presents the findings of a prospective longitudinal study comprising of three interview stages over the course of two years. The design aims to address the gaps in our knowledge about these two phenomena. The thesis begins by providing an introduction to the area of youth homelessness in the UK (Chapter 1). The relationship between mental illness and homelessness is explored by drawing on a number of psychological theories including family systems, attachment, diathesis stress and the social support stress buffering hypothesis. This is followed by a systematic literature review examining the prevalence of mental health issues within this population and exploring the link between the two phenomena (Chapter 2). The review reveals high rates of psychopathology among young homeless people and identifies a possible reciprocal relationship between homelessness and mental illness. Chapter 3 provides a description of the research method and questionnaires. The longitudinal design used in this project involved three waves of data collection using a pack of questionnaires that explored a range of housing situations, family background, maltreatment, 2 criminality, self-control, loneliness and self-mastery. The interviews also included a full neuropsychiatric assessment in order to assess presence or absence of mental illness. In Chapter 4 a detailed description of the 121 participants recruited for the study revealed a sample representative of the youth homeless population as a whole. The sample had high levels of mental health problems (88%) and had a number of other areas of vulnerability including high rates of comorbidity, past abuse experiences, heavy use of drugs and alcohol, problematic family relationships and premature exits from education. Chapter 5 involved the analysis of the relationship between current disorder and future access to health and mental health services. The results revealed that while young homeless people had a particularly high rate of disorder they also had relatively low levels of access to appropriate services at follow up. However, access to emergency medical care was high. Some forms of disorder, such as depression, were particularly predictive of future health care use whereas other disorders including substance dependence were not. Cluster analysis using differing lifetime mental health conditions was conducted in Chapter 6 in order to identify subgroups of young people with experiences of homelessness. The subgroups derived from this analysis were used to examine differences in past, current and future experiences. Identification of three groups enabled prediction of future outcomes measured at follow up including differences in levels of observed loneliness and self-mastery, as well as level of suicide risk. The final analysis in Chapter 7 was concerned with change in mental health status over the course of the longitudinal study. A fine grained analysis of different characteristics and experiences was conducted, with the aim of assessing the differences between young people whose mental health improved, worsened or remained stable. The research reported in this chapter and the findings of the cluster analysis was then synthesised to further validate the 3 subgroups. This revealed relationships between poor past mental health and future mental health problems. The implications of the findings are discussed in Chapter 8 in terms of psychological theory, intervention work and current government policy relating to youth homelessness. Service providers need to be aware of the prevalence and variation of mental illness among the young people they support. Mental health offers a way of grouping young homeless people in order to tailor support that improves outcomes. Interventions need to be adapted and made accessible, collaborative work should be encouraged enabling support that accounts for heterogeneity in this population.
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Myers, Paul Michael. "Hepatitis C testing among young people who experience homelessness in Melbourne /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00003848.
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Keenan, Lynn D. "Identifying risk factors for homelessness among people living with HIV disease /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11169.
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Cuncev, Alexandra. "Narratives of 'single homeless people' : reformulating and reinterpreting the homelessness experience." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2015. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/809489/.
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This PhD study focuses on understanding formerly homeless people’s attitudes to self, their home and their status in the housing system. The study was based on the analysis of twenty-eight narrative interviews with people who had experienced homelessness and who were, at the time of the interview, living in supported housing in a city in the South East of England. The decade 2000-2010, which provides the policy context for the research, was seen as a period of positive developments in homelessness research. In the current study and by using a combined narrative and thematic research approach, I place the single homeless people’s conceptualisations of identity into the Third Space (Shilling 1999, Burkitt 2008) presentation of flexible individualities, but which, despite the challenges and pressures experienced, maintain a strong sense of the core of the self that makes them unique. My approach to the homeless people’s identity formation accepts the possibility of a decentralisation of identities in contemporary societies; however, I maintain that there are parts of own identity which persist in individuals’ definitions of self and ultimately help ground the homeless individual. I acquiesce that identities can go through changes, imposed by personal circumstances and social context, and that these changes can lead to variations in the elements which retain value for the individual. However, despite all these changes, the homeless interviewees continued to refer to their self as easily recognised – retaining the same main qualities which belonged to the self before the homelessness experience. It was this strength of self that the interviewees ultimately wanted to transmit to the interviewer and it is this strength of self which places their conceptualisations of identity in the ‘Third Space’ approach. The study was placed at a crossroads for homelessness policies which had passed through a series of changes through two different governments: New Labour and the Coalition Government. As well as highlighting areas that required improvement, the study showed that a holistic perspective towards the homeless person, taking into account their experiences before, after and during the homelessness event and acknowledging the value of training and unpaid employment, could lead to policy and practice which is closer to individuals’ perceived identities and routes out of homelessness.
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Rosebert, Che-Louise. "The role of clinical psychology for homeless people." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://oro.open.ac.uk/58078/.
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Recent research has suggested that mental health problems are over-represented in the homeless population. Currently mental health services are under-utilised by this group in proportion to need. It is often assumed that psychological intervention is unlikely to be helpful with a client group where basic needs are often not met. The Transtheoretical Model of Change is used as a framework to describe the complex, dynamic processes that are likely to impact on a homeless person with mental health problems' ability to seek help for their mental health difficulties. This model is also applied to services. The empirical evidence for Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a help or hindrance to help-seeking behaviour is examined. This study asked homeless people to identify their own needs and explored current working practices of the few clinical psychologists who work with them directly. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the role for clinical psychology for homeless people. A pilot study was conducted. In the main study, nine men from two day centres/night shelters (one rural and one inner city) were recruited opportunistically. Five clinical psychologists working within the homelessness field were recruited. Psychopathology of the homeless participants was measured using the GHQ-12 and BPRS. Within a user-designed approach a semi-structured interview was developed for the main study from the pilot study.
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Harding, Jamie. "Success and failure in independent living among 16-17 year olds." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366535.
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Coward, Sarah. "Home life : the meaning of home for people who have experienced homelessness." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21626/.
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‘Home’ is widely used to describe a positive experience of a dwelling place (shelter). It is about a positive emotional connection to a dwelling place, feeling at ‘home’ in a dwelling place, where both physiological and psychological needs can be fulfilled. This portrayal of ‘home’, however, is not always how a dwelling place is experienced. A dwelling place can be a negative environment, i.e. ‘not-home’, or there may be no emotional attachment or investment in a dwelling place at all. Both circumstances receive little attention in the literature. This research explores the realities of ‘home’ by delving into the ‘home’ lives of seventeen individuals who had experienced a range of different housing situations, including recent homelessness, moving to a (resettlement) sole tenancy and then moving on from that tenancy. Participants were asked to recall their housing histories, from their first housing memory as a child up to the time of interviewing. For each housing episode, they were asked to describe the circumstances of their life at the time, for example relationships, employment and education. They were also asked to reflect on their housing experiences. Similarities and differences of experience are explored according to gender and type of housing situation. This research tells the story of lives characterised by housing and social instability, often triggered by a significant change in social context in childhood. As such, the fulfilment of both physiological and psychological needs was often constrained, and experiences of a dwelling place were more likely to be negative rather than positive, although ‘home’ could be found in the most challenging of circumstances, and often in the most unlikely of places. The participants’ constructions of ‘home’ and ‘not-home’ were largely focused on a singular feature, unlike the broader social constructions of ‘home’. ‘Not-home’ was characterised by physical insecurity, whereas ‘home’ was characterised by emotional security, with many characteristics mirroring human needs, of which ‘positive relationships’ was the most common feature. Many participants, however, had limited experience of, and/or struggled to forge and maintain, ‘positive relationships’, they lacked ‘social capital’, which meant having to navigate through a life of instability pretty much alone. As such, this research proposes a new narrative of ‘relationship poverty’, in which a lack of ‘positive relationships’ hinders the fulfilment of needs, and therefore the possibility of feeling at ‘home’ in any dwelling place.
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Clutton, Samantha. "Young people : from homelessness to citizenship? : an evaluation of the Foyer approach." Thesis, Swansea University, 2001. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42802.
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This thesis is intended to test both a theory concerning the causes of youth homelessness and the validity of one approach to overcoming this social problem, that is the approach adopted by the British Foyer Movement. I argue that youth homelessness is the result of denied citizenship in the absence of family membership and through a lack of economic independence from both the family and the state. British social policy restricts the welfare entitlements of young people under the age of 25 years. For government, social security and other advantages of citizenship must be 'earned' through the fulfilment of certain obligations such as work and the making of tax contributions. My thesis provides evidence to show how environmental and structural disadvantages prevent many young people from meeting these obligations, thus rendering them vulnerable to homelessness. Evidence gathered through an in-depth study at one British Foyer is used to test the explanation of youth homelessness offered above through an investigation of the process of homelessness as it was experienced by the 33 young people who took part in the study. The experiences of and outcomes for study participants are also used to assess the validity of the Foyer approach to youth homelessness. It is suggested that the Foyer approach is unable to meet the stated aims of the British Foyer Federation in empowering young people to become socially and economically active citizens as it fails to recognise the prior needs of young people who have often experienced social exclusion. It is argued that the Foyer approach to tackling youth homelessness is based on individual rehabilitation and the conditional provision of services and as such is ineffective in overcoming the structural causes of youth homelessness for those who are most vulnerable to this social problem.
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Lenhard, Johannes Felix. "Making better lives : home making among homeless people in Paris." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274609.
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How do homeless people make homes on the street? Over two years of fieldwork in Paris, I observed the daily practices and routines of people who are sleeping rough. How do they earn money through begging? What factors do they consider when finding and making shelters? I followed people through different institutional settings – a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and ultimately also a homeless shelter – on their way away from the street always documenting the conflicts between their short term – drugs and alcohol – and long term hopes. I observed the ways which they were supported by assistants socials and other institutional actors in their struggle to create spaces of reflective freedom. I argue that their efforts were about home making and as such about making a better life first on and then away from the street.
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Donley, Amy Melissa. "The perception of homeless people important factors in determining perceptions of the homeless as dangerous /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002261.
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Phillips, Joshua Daniel. "From Losing Everything to Finding Community: How Homeless People Narrate their Lived Experiences." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/965.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an academic platform for people who are homeless to narrate their lived experiences. Traditionally, scholars and politicians drive public conversations about homelessness and commonly reach conclusions that require more social programs and more funding. In the literature review of this dissertation, I argue that many social programs for the homeless, while well intended, fall short of their goals because scholars and politicians do not appreciate the idea that homeless people are part of a distinct culture with different lifestyles and objectives. Because of the cultural differences between the housed and the homeless, social programs that may work for the housed may not work for the homeless. Therefore, to create policy that will best function for the homeless, it is important to learn about the culture of homelessness by listening to the voices of homeless people. In an effort to learn about the culture of homelessness, in this dissertation I utilize the narrative paradigm as a theoretical framework and ask: How do homeless people narrate their experiences?; What types of experiences and relationships do homeless people have with government benefits and charitable organizations?; and How would homeless people craft economic and social policy if given the opportunity to do so? To answer these questions, I spent one summer working at a homeless shelter and interviewed 10 homeless people. While each person had an individual story, there were common themes that emerged among participants. These themes were arranged chronologically and analyzed in chapters entitled: Losing Everything, Navigating the System, Manipulating the System, and Seeking Recognition/Finding Community. Based on my analysis of these narratives, I propose suggestions for how public policy can better respond to the needs of the homeless by offering long-term shelter assistance, connecting benefits to work and education performance, and educating the housed about the resources available for the homeless in their community. In the end, implementing policies that address homelessness should be done in conversation with the homeless. The voices of homeless people matter and intercultural dialogue between the housed and the homeless fosters a sense of mutual respect, personal empowerment, and shared ownership of public policy.
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Luscombe, Claire. "Mental health and social exclusion in people experiencing homelessness : the case for improved assessment." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47950/.
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This study investigated the Mental Health and Social exclusion in People experiencing Homelessness and was completed in two phases; A large cross section study in which six screening assessments and a diagnostic test battery were completed with 529 individuals, followed by an exploratory secondary analysis investigating the association between social exclusion factors and mental health disorders. Analysis included the prevalence of the disorders found within this group, comparisons of the reported disorders with that of the general population and the utility of the screening test administered. A logistic analysis was completed for the 8 mental health disorders to understand the association between these and the 21 factors of social exclusion identified from the work of Percy- Smith and the Multiple Exclusion Project. Prevalence rates within the homeless study were found to be significantly higher than that of the general population with major depression and substance dependency being most prevalent. Psychosis yielded the biggest difference between the two populations. Only the AUDIT and DAST were found to be useful screening tools. Twelve indicators were found to be associated with mental health disorders with odds ratios ranging between 1.20 and 4.43. The study added evidence to the growing awareness of the multiply excluded nature of homelessness. Whether homelessness should be given such prominence in their support is debatable. This research supports the need for services that are multidisciplinary and cater for a broad range of needs. With the current reforms to the health and social care system what seems likely is that without more robust data and assessment, homeless individuals will not receive the services that they so clearly need. Further research is needed into the associated factors of social exclusion and their utility within needs assessments and how services should support those individuals with these complex needs.
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Donley, Amy. "THE PERCEPTION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: IMPORTANT FACTORS IN DETERMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOMELESS AS DANGEROUS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3813.
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This study uses two quantitative and two qualitative data sources to determine if homeless people are viewed as dangerous and if they are what factors contribute to this perception. Areas examined are respondent's characteristics, media affects and the perceived rights of homeless people to urban space. Actual levels of perpetration among the homeless are examined to allow for comparisons between perception and reality to be made. Findings showed that race plays a major role in the perception of homeless peo-ple among whites, while gender is more influential among blacks. There was no rela-tionship between media and perceptions. A negative relationship was found between support of rights of the homeless and the perception that they are dangerous. While the homeless have higher incarceration rate as compared to the poor-but-never-homeless, the crimes for which they are sentenced appear to be non-violent in nature and are of-ten what are characterized as nuisance crimes. Recommendations were made to study actual perpetration rates among the homeless to allow for a more in-depth analysis of criminal involvement.<br>Ph.D.<br>Department of Sociology<br>Sciences<br>Sociology PhD
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Czechowski, Konrad. "“What the Fuck is the Point of Unpacking?”: Perceptions of Residential Transitions Among People with Histories of Residential Instability." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38086.
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This study examined the perceptions of housing transitions of individuals with histories of residential instability. Participants were recruited from the Health and Housing in Transition study (HHiT), a longitudinal multi-city Canadian study tracking the health and housing of 1,192 participants over a 5-year period. Twenty-two participants from Ottawa were recruited from the larger study to participate in the present study. Participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide about their experiences of housing transitions (moves from one housing situation to another). A general inductive method for the analysis of qualitative data was used to examine participants’ perceptions of their transitions. Findings suggest that participants experienced feelings of disconnection from their housing situations. Their transitions were characterized as chaotic and initiated by factors outside of their control. Participants attributed their transitions to factors such as interpersonal issues, substance use, financial issues, safety concerns, and pests. The present study emphasizes the complexity of participants’ precarious housing situations and the multifactorial nature of their residential instability.
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Marsh, Kate. "People Out of Place: Representations and Experiences Of Female Homelessness In Christchurch, New Zealand (Aotearoa)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/965.
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This anthropological thesis focuses on female homelessness in Christchurch, New Zealand. I am interested in how different groups in society understand female homelessness and how their perceptions compare to the experiences of homeless women. Consequently, my research centres on the narratives of women who have experienced homelessness providing a view from the "inside". It is also concerned with representations of homelessness in the media and by service providers. The different representations raise issues relating to "normalisation" and "abnormalisation", classification and dichotomisation, self-governance and control, and social participation. I take up these issues to explore the social exclusion of homeless women. My research reveals a dominant homelessness discourse as well as one that might be considered a counter-discourse. The first suggests a dehumanising and unsympathetic approach as it situates homeless people as "abnormal" and "deviant" while the second suggests an empathetic and charitable approach as it situates homeless people as "normal" and "human". The media seem to reflect and reinforce the dominant discourse while service providers seem to reflect the counter-discourse. The women's narratives indicate that they reinforce the dominant discourse by internalising social norms. However, they are unable to reproduce them. Disconnection from mainstream society results in their being caught in a cycle they find difficult to break. This research shows that homeless women are predominantly positioned as social failures. They seem to be unable, or do not know how, to reproduce social norms, to govern themselves and to create meaningful and enduring social networks. Essentially, I explore why homeless women often remain on the periphery of society as "outsiders" and why they find it so difficult to transcend their circumstances. As there has been no contemporary research undertaken specifically on homeless women in New Zealand, I hope the current research will provide a building block for further research on what I conclude is a marginalised and socially excluded group of people who are dominantly portrayed as dysfunctional and "out of place".
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Kissoon, Priya N. "Pathways to homelessness a case study of the housing careers of the homeless people in Toronto /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56185.pdf.
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Kemp, McKinsey. "Social Work Services: How can Social Workers Improve the Healthcare Experience for People who are Homeless?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/639.
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This research project focuses on how social workers can improve the healthcare experience for people who are homeless. The twelve participants in this study were recruited from a homeless shelter located in Southern California. Data was collected for this study using qualitative methods by means of interviews. Interviews were conducted in person, audio recorded, and then transcribed for data analysis. Findings from this study indicated that the concepts of time, perception of needs being met, service connection, staff interaction, social work intervention, and potential social work intervention were all connected to whether participants viewed their healthcare visit as a negative experience or a positive experience. In addition, findings from this study revealed a low percentage of reported social work encounters at healthcare facilities among study participants. Results from this study have implications for social work practice in regards to location of social work intervention at healthcare facilities and extension of social work roles in healthcare settings.
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Coles, Emma. "A qualitative exploration of the public and private faces of homelessness : engaging homeless people with health promotion." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/3837305d-7c34-412c-b535-32f8b3482a85.
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This qualitative exploration takes place within the context of homelessness, oral health and health promotion. The idea for this work was associated with 'An Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland', which identified homeless people as a priority group. This led to ‘Something to Smile About’ (STSA), a pilot oral health promotion intervention for homelessness sector practitioners and homeless clients. An evaluation of STSA, which was judged to have failed, highlighted the interplay between intervention design, and the two principal stakeholders: practitioners and homeless clients. The aim of the research was to explore the contextual and experiential elements of homelessness that influence homeless people’s engagement with health promotion. As the research progressed, these two factors were conceptualised as the public and private faces of homelessness. It became apparent that to fully understand the issues surrounding homeless people’s engagement, it would be necessary to explore the private, innermost elements of homelessness. Seventeen homelessness sector practitioners and 34 homeless people took part in a qualitative exploration, in order to examine the engagement process from the perspective of both stakeholders. It emerged that that the homelessness policy context, coupled with work environments and perceptions of clients, shaped practitioners’ interactions and thus influenced client engagement. Practitioners utilised a narrow ‘window of engagement opportunity’ within a wider framework of managing client health problems and preparation for engagement, engaging with clients, and finally, disengaging from clients. From the work with homeless people, a ‘journey’ through homelessness emerged, in the form of a trajectory from ‘deconstruction’ of pre-homeless identity, to ‘construction’ of a homeless identity, and finally, to ‘reconstruction’ of a post-homeless, ‘reclaimed’ life. Appropriate points for engagement on this trajectory were identified. The thesis ends with a set of recommendations to assist practitioners to engage their homeless clients, and from the client perspective, encourage and facilitate engagement with practitioners and health promotion services.
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Robinson, Catherine Social Policy Research Centre Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Being somewhere: young homeless people in inner-city Sydney." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/36679.
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Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observation and my experiences of working with young homeless people in refuges, in this thesis I develop an analysis which identifies some key spatial practices through which young people negotiate the field of homelessness in inner-city Sydney. The particular contribution of this work is to consider homelessness in terms of a theorised understanding of the broader role of place within homelessness, rather than in terms of the immediacy of cause or solution. While acknowledging the importance of the large body of work which has focused on the structural causes of homelessness and the need for a clear policy-oriented definition of homelessness, I develop an alternative agenda for a focus on young homeless people's struggles to feel 'in place' and 'at home'. These struggles throw into relief the need to understand young people???s homelessness in terms of a search, not just for a place to stay, but for a place to belong. Utilising the rich body of work which explores the important relation of place and subjectivity, I connect young people???s experiences of place within homelessness with the broader social and phenomenological concepts of ???displacement??? and ???implacement???. In particular, I focus on the spatial relations through which young people construct and organise their daily paths and begin to make sense of their often painful and chaotic lives and their fears about the future. I contextualise their fragile experiences of being somewhere in a broader spatial structure of constant movement and grief and feelings of alienation from the wider community. I consider the enduring role of past homes in their continuing struggle to piece together a way of ???being at home??? both in terms of drawing together a network of physical places of safety and in terms of experiencing a sense of acceptance, recognition and rootedness through place. I point to the critical need to include broader understandings of both home and homelessness in addressing the displacement which shapes the experience of homelessness for young people and impacts on the success of immediate measures developed to respond to it.
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Embleton, Lonnie, Hana Lee, Jayleen Gunn, David Ayuku, and Paula Braitstein. "Causes of Child and Youth Homelessness in Developed and Developing Countries." AMER MEDICAL ASSOC, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614740.
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Westaway, Coral. "The experiences of men who have had multiple moves within projects for people who are homeless." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21097.
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Homelessness and rough sleeping has dramatically increased in the UK over the past six years. Links between welfare changes, inequality and social exclusion are pronounced. This study looked into the experiences of a particular group of people experiencing homelessness; those with complex needs who had had multiple moves round homeless projects. Qualitative research of the lived experiences of those experiencing homelessness is limited, particularly for this group of individuals in the UK. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was applied to interviews undertaken with six men with these experiences. The four main themes from this analysis were Moving forward vs no way forward, Being here has really helped but it's only temporary, Being treated as different and Desperately longing for yet deeply fearing relationships. These themes were supported with extensive participant quotes and were contextualised in the current literature. The themes reflect and demonstrate: Challenges with hope and future plans and the role of substance use; Relationships to help in the context of conditionality and the temporary nature of projects; Issues regarding coherent identity development and stigmatisation; and Complexity around forming relationships. These findings develop our understanding of this population and support improvements in practice. A clear role for Clinical Psychologists in this area was identified and recommendations across domains of individual, service level and community practice were presented.
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Silva, George Randell. "Powerlessness and Service Utilization by People without Homes by Chronic Homelessness, Age, Gender, Mental Health, and Substance Use." Thesis, Alliant International University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3620289.
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<p> This dissertation examined correlates of powerlessness, chronic homelessness (more than one-year homelessness), age, and gender, by analysis of the mental health (MH) and substance use (SU) service requests made by 699 people who attended a San Francisco, California homeless outreach event in May of 2005. People without homes (PWH) suffer MH and SU issues at a much higher rate than housed people, yet PWH who acknowledged they experienced MH and SU issues were least likely to request MH and SU services. PWH may have experienced chronic feelings of powerlessness, which resulted from marginalization. These chronic feelings of powerlessness contributed to a person's belief that his or her actions would produce no positive results. The concept of powerlessness may help explain PWH's reluctance to request MH and SU services. The author explored the relationship between chronicity of homelessness and requests for MH and SU services. Analyses showed that non-chronic PWH requested more MH services than those who were chronically homeless. However, this association was not seen when requests for SU services was examined. Additional analysis examining the relationship between service requests, age and gender did not result in significant findings. These findings provided support for the idea that powerlessness was an intrapersonal factor in PWH's choices to request or not request MH and SU services, based upon non-chronic homelessness and theoretically less exposure to powerlessness. These results assist in identifying intrapersonal factors influencing a person's experience in overcoming homelessness, providing an alternative to the current suggestion from the literature that services were unattractive to PWH.</p>
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Stewart, Alasdair B. R. "Managing a tenancy : young people's pathways into, and sustaining independent tenancies from, homelessness." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20409.
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Due to their disproportionate risk of tenancy non-sustainment there have been concerns raised for young people making a pathway out of homelessness into independent living. Despite these concerns, there has been limited research looking at how young people experience tenancy sustainment or where they move onto after terminating a tenancy. This thesis, drawing on Bourdieu’s (1990a) theory of practice, presents a reconceptualisation of tenancy sustainment as a practice of sustaining a tenancy. The theoretical-empirical analysis is based on data collected through longitudinal research involving two waves of semi- structured interviews with 25 young people, aged 16-25, who had recently made a pathway out of homelessness into their own independent tenancies. The interdependency between a tenant and their tenancy presented young people with pressures which they developed techniques of independent living in response to in order to sustain their tenancy and make it a home. Young people not only had a particular housing position of being a tenant, they held family and education-employment positions which took part in the formation and shaping of the pressures they experienced living independently. Tenancies were not seen as an end in themselves by young people who desired, through the experience of sustaining a tenancy, increasingly independent positions within their other social positions as well. An uneven process of actually existing neoliberalism across policy areas through its influence on young people’s constellation of interdependent relations also created a dissonance within the positions held by young people fostering social suffering. Young people ending a tenancy viewed this as a ‘step backwards’ when it meant decreasing independence such as a return to supported accommodation; ambivalence where it arose from the end of a relationship; and as a move forwards, or ‘getting on with life’, when making a youth transition and housing pathway towards establishing their own family household.
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Collins, Jennifer. "Characterising homeless people in Scotland : can oral health, health and psycho-social wellbeing enhance the ETHOS typology of homelessness?" Thesis, University of Dundee, 2012. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ab21eefa-2aab-4937-92e8-aa7ac4470d87.
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The issue of healthcare provision for homeless people provides an ongoing concern throughout Scotland. Homeless people have been shown to experience high levels of ill-health, including oral diseases and are disproportionately affected by mental health problems. This thesis sought to establish the health, oral health and psychosocial well-being needs of Scottish homeless people with a view to enhancing understanding, and providing a basis for improving models of care and service delivery for this group of vulnerable individuals. Two literature reviews were carried out, a narrative review of the available literature relevant to concepts of homelessness and relevant to the health of homeless people, and a structured review which allowed a detailed systematic examination of the literature specifically pertaining to the oral health of homeless people. In order to provide greater context, the information gathered in this survey was evaluated against a framework of typology; typologies being frequently used to characterise homelessness. The ETHOS typology, internationally recognised and considered to be a valid and reliable construct of homelessness, was selected for use in this context of this thesis. Thus the aim was to investigate if oral health, health and psycho-social wellbeing could be used as additional descriptors of the ETHOS typology of homelessness for a Scotland-wide homeless population to inform the development of a tailored service provision to increase engagement with health services. In order to achieve this aim, homeless people throughout seven NHS Boards in Scotland were sampled. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which assessed demography, general health and associated health-related behaviours, psycho-social wellbeing, oral health and oral health-related attitudes and behaviours. An oral examination was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of obvious decay experience, levels of plaque present, oral mucosal disease, and denture wear. Eight hundred and fifty three homeless people participated, 85% of whom had an oral examination. Using the data obtained it was possible to show that demographic, oral health, health and psycho-social wellbeing descriptors existed which could characterise the various dimensions of the ETHOS typology, allowing an enhanced ETHOS typology to be developed. It is recommended that this enhanced ETHOS typology could act as a framework against which targeted and tailored health service provision for specific groups of homeless people could be developed. It is proposed that such a tailored health service provision is necessary, and would allow health services to improve their engagement of homeless populations.
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Talley, Jennifer. "A Comparison of Coping Strategies Among Homeless Women with Children and Homeless Women without Children." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2018. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/129.
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The purpose of this study is to compare the coping strategies between homeless women with dependent children and homeless women without dependent children. Of the 192 homeless women in this study, 64 were mothers who have their dependent children living with them and 132 were women who did not have dependent children living with them. The women were recruited from homeless shelters in Georgia, in the Metro-Atlanta area and several surrounding counties: Bartow, Clark, and Cobb. MANOVA analysis was used to test the differences between both groups using their scores on the Coping Strategies Inventory scales (problem solving skills, problem reframing, and ability to access social networks). Univariate analysis was used to look at each dependent variable. There was no statistical difference in coping strategies between both groups. The conclusions from this study suggest continued research regarding the benefit of coping strategies among homeless populations.
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Spieth, Russell E. "An Exploration of Behavioral Health Workers’ Attitudes Toward Treating People Without Homes." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1402155134.
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Alden, Sarah L. "'At the coalface' : the role of the street level bureaucrat in provision of statutory services to older people affected by homelessness." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8378/.
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Research has revealed that households affected by homelessness in England have increased due to the combined effects of an economic downturn and political austerity. Yet due primarily to the latter statutory provision to meet these extra demands have, if anything, decreased. This thesis employs Lipsky’s street level bureaucrat conceptual framework to assess the effectiveness of Local Authority Housing Option Service (LAHOS) provision in respect of older people at threat of homelessness in England. More specifically it considers how frontline delivery at the individual level coalesces with organisational and central level determinants. Lipsky maintained that resource scarcity and higher level pressures underpinned an inability to undertake public sector roles effectively. Investigations which have shown that LAHOSs at times resort to illegitimate gatekeeping to meet politically motivated objectives or in order to protect limited local supplies lend additional support to this argument. Although households of all ages are potentially vulnerable to homelessness, it has been found that older people lose their home due to a unique combination of singular or aggregate causations. Further, in many respects the housing need of older people has been shown to be qualitatively distinct from other groups. Despite this, evidence suggests that policy is persistently failing to address these issues due to a tendency to homogenise older people, or focus on the ‘oldest old’ who require care or support services. Yet homelessness amongst ‘younger’ older people is likely to increase in parallel to the expected exponential rise in the percentage of people over 50 in the population. A multi faceted research design was adopted to explore the wider conditions of provision alongside the delivery mechanisms at the meso and micro levels. This incorporated a national baseline survey, 27 individual interviews in 12 LAHOSs and a group interview with third sector professionals. It was found that service outcomes were negatively affected by pressures due to resource shortages and role objectives set at a higher level. It was further identified that individual or peer level factors, such as categorising particular service users within narrow or stereotypical frames, could also impact upon decision making processes. Overall, the application of Lipsky’s framework to homelessness services proved an effective tool to assess the complex interplay between higher level and frontline role pressures, highlighting where policy makers should consider directing change. However, the model is best viewed as a conceptual guide to frontline statutory implementation, rather than as a prescriptive ‘one size fits all’ approach.
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Irving-Clarke, Yoric. "'Supporting People' : how did we get here and what does it mean for the future?" Thesis, De Montfort University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13055.
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This study explores the implementation and impact of Supporting People, a policy of the New Labour and Coalition governments of 1997 to the present designed to provide housing related support to those considered vulnerable. The theoretical framework uses concepts from past studies of implementation, policy networks, governmentality, path dependency, other temporal concepts and a recent heuristic that provides an independent framework for analysing policy success. This conceptual framework was used in exploring the history of care and support services in the UK; assessing the successes and failures of the past. The study then looks at the drivers and policy goals for Supporting People and at some of the key reviews and studies of it thus far. The fieldwork uses a “mixed methods” approach utilising both quantitative and qualitative methods. An initial survey gathered views from a range of supported housing professionals, followed by a series of in-depth interviews with management practitioners from Supporting People funded organisations. Both stages utilised ideas from the conceptual framework in asking about implementation processes and successes and failures of the programme. This section also explores the use of evidence, dissemination and impact. In terms of the Supporting People policy, the study found a number of areas of strengths on which to build e.g. increased funding and improved strategic frameworks, but also many areas of weakness that require improvement. These include protection for funding, consistency across local authorities, fragmented structures of related policy networks and the top-down implementation style of the policy – there were lessons from No Second Night Out (NSNO) – Leicester in this regard. This was a piece of evaluative research carried out in tandem with the main study and integrated into it. The study found a consistent failure to provide adequate services for vulnerable people; services had failed to build up sufficient path dependent processes to protect them from funding and other resources being diverted to other priorities. The lack of a legislative and conceptual consensus around what it means to be “well housed” was key.
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Gazy, Michael G. "What is a City but the People?: An Evaluative Study of the Development and Implementation of a 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Macon, Georgia." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/174.
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Contemporary circumstances have increased the occurrence and risk of homelessness for millions of Americans. The Macon Coalition to End Homelessness (a group of homeless service providers in the Macon-Bibb County) has noted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based plan which would more efficiently coordinate and dispense services for homeless people; with the eventual goal of preventing/mitigating the influence of factors which initiate, perpetuate, and prevent the pathways that would lead one to establish an independent life.
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The explicit purpose of this capstone project is to analyze the processes inherent in the development and implementation of a community-based intervention aimed at homeless populations: the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Macon, Georgia. The development of preventive policy initiatives and the intended target of the community-based initiatives are direct public health measures.
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This evaluative study tracks the initial development, planning, writing of a community-based intervention. The study tracks the progress of the various phases of the development of the plan. It should be noted that the author of this study was also a member of the 10-Year Plan Steering Committee and the primary author of the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Macon, Georgia. These dual roles allowed the author to have unrestricted access and support regarding information pertinent to these processes.
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The study analyzes the steps needed in completing a successful implementation of a 10-year Plan. Additionally, this project delivers a draft of the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Macon, Georgia.
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Finally, suggestions for further steps to be taken by the MCEH for successful buy-in and establishment of a 10-Year Plan are made. This includes strict adherence to the tenets of other succesful10-Year Plans; increased community support (both financial and in terms of volunteerism/direct service) including but not limited to governmental sponsorship, community-wide awareness, and strong private-sector support; and, the development and reliance upon systems which utilize measurable objectives – of note, this would include a more accurate census mechanism. Further examination of factors such as these should result in a tailored, highly-effective preventative community-based intervention
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Kerman, Nicholas. "The Role of Services for Homeless and Housed People with Mental Illness: The Relationship Between Service Use and Housing Stability, Recovery, and Capabilities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39596.
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People with mental illness and histories of homelessness represent a vulnerable and marginalized population for whom a wide range of health, social, and community services have been developed. Despite the array of services, their role in the lives of currently and formerly homeless people with mental illness is not fully understood. Three studies were conducted that addressed two research questions: [1] How do patterns of service use differ during transitions from homelessness to housing compared to those from housing to homelessness among people with mental illness? and [2] What is role of services in enhancing the lives of housed and homeless people with mental illness? The first research question was addressed in Study 1, which involved secondary data analysis from a multisite randomized controlled trial of Housing First in Canada known as the At Home/Chez Soi demonstration project. The study explored how service use patterns over 24 months differed among people who achieved housing stability compared to those who remained unstably housed or re-experienced housing instability during the second year of the study. Findings showed that, as homeless people with mental illness transition into stable housing, their service use patterns change, with less time being spent in psychiatric hospitals, prison, and emergency shelters. Housing First minimally affected the changes in service use patterns, indicating that housing stability is the key factor in producing the changes as people transition out of homelessness. Study 2 also used data from the At Home/Chez Soi demonstration project to examine predictors of recovery among homeless people with mental illness at baseline and 24 months. Findings showed that health and community factors most strongly predicted mental health recovery at baseline. The housing and service use block of predictors was also significantly associated with most components of recovery, though the effect sizes were small. At 24 months, the model, which included receipt of Housing First, did not significantly predict residual changes in recovery from baseline. Study 3 of this dissertation qualitatively explored how currently and formerly homeless people with mental illness view services in their lives using two theoretical frameworks: recovery (Part 1) and the capabilities approach (Part 2). In-depth interviews were conducted with 52 participants living in Ottawa, Ontario. Participants perceived services to have a range of positive and negative impacts of their recovery and capabilities. However, the limits of service helpfulness in helping people to move forward with their lives was also highlighted. Overall, the findings of this dissertation indicate that the health, social, and community services used by homeless people with mental illness change as people become stably housed yet are limited in their impacts on recovery and capabilities. Implications for transformative change, service delivery, and future research are discussed.
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Roebuck, Benjamin S. "Exclusion and Resilience: Exploring the Decision-Making Processes of Young People Who Are Homeless." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30710.
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Young people who are homeless experience adversity, but many are able to overcome the challenges of street life and transition back into housing. This exploratory, qualitative research draws on the narratives from interviews and focus groups with 35 young people who have experienced homelessness, as well as interviews and focus groups with 30 service providers working in youth shelters and a youth drop-in centre. Exploring themes of victimization, criminal offending, police involvement, and interactions with community services, this research highlights the capacities of young people to navigate around obstacles and negotiate to meet their needs. Integrating symbolic interactionism and social constructivist perspectives, this research explores the importance of micro-level interactions and perceptions, as well as the contexts that frame the decision-making processes of young people passing through homelessness. The implications of these perspectives are discussed within the framework of resilience discourse.
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Battams, Samantha Jane, and sam battams@flinders edu au. "Housing for people with a psychiatric disability; community empowerment, partnerships and politics." Flinders University. Public Health, 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20080926.215213.
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This research examined intersectoral relationships and community participation in policy processes across the mental health and housing sectors. The focus was on the development of suitable housing options for people with a psychiatric disability. The study period covered five years of mental health system reform in South Australia (2000-2005). The research found a shortage of housing and support options for people with psychiatric disability and lack of significant strategic policy coordination or ongoing cross-sectoral programmes. The problems faced by people in gaining access to housing and disability support services and the ways in which families provide housing or support in the absence of public services are documented.
This case study used qualitative research methods which were triangulated across four stages: 1) a thematic analysis of national and state policies in the health, housing and disability sectors; 2) participant observation of NGO activity, a thematic analysis of NGO documents, and interviews and focus groups with NGOs; 3) interviews and focus groups with consumer and carer representatives and a thematic analysis of the minutes from state-level groups; 4) interviews with professionals from the health, housing and disability sectors
The housing situation for people with psychiatric disability was explained in terms of a number of key issues in the policy environment;
X The overarching neo-liberal policy context synonymous with a decline in public housing resources and increasing tension between NGOs service provider and advocacy roles.
X The political nature of the local mental health policy context and lack of political commitment to ongoing resources. Broad community stigma reflected in the media and government, affecting ongoing political commitment to mental health and housing and the introduction and progress of housing ¡¥projects¡¦.
X The slow development of peak NGO and consumer organisations and alliances in South Australia which affected access to policy networks and contributed to the dominance of professional interests within policy processes.
X The separation of health, housing and disability policy and networks within and across levels of government. This was associated with bilateral agreements (between Australian and state governments) tied to resources within departments, the programme objectives and the goals of bureaucrats.
X The separation of policy networks by sector was also connected to the dominance of bio-medical discourses and interventions and associated professional interests in the health policy sector. Medical discourses on health and disability and ¡¥consumerist¡¦ discourses on participation also led to social determinants of health such as housing being overlooked within policy processes.
X Governance reform at a state level contributed to organisational instability within departments, causing some problems for cross-sectoral initiatives and protocols.
Kingdon¡¦s (2003) multiple streams analysis of policy helped to explain what missed or reached political agendas within each policy sector of the case study. Kingdon predicts that the unity of policy networks is important for the realization of policy solutions, and the lack of unity in policy sectors was an obstacle to policy agendas on housing for people with a psychiatric disability. However, the way in which problems were being represented (Bacchi 1999) was also important to understanding this policy environment. For example, a medical discourse on disability (Fulcher 1989) tied to the health sector led to a narrow focus on clinical mental health services. Similarly, neo-liberal discourse (Dean 1999) supported private housing solutions and resources or NGOs advocating ¡¥within sectors¡¦ for the types of services they already provided or wished to provide.
The case study suggested strategies for ¡¥policy change¡¦ need to address a number of factors across service delivery, policy and political realms. Firstly, better recognition is warranted of the difficulty experienced by many people with psychiatric disability in achieving stable housing, and the need for indicators on housing access and stability for this group. Secondly, processes to address stigma (particularly that perpetuated in the media) will be instrumental for policy change and political commitment. Thirdly, ongoing cross sectoral advocacy and alliances require development at both a national and state level and support by a political culture which encourages advocacy. Developing processes for working across sectors such as policy learning forums involving both experts and community groups could counter problems arising from professional culture and territories that were documented in this study. Finally, the cross-sectoral development of policy, programmes and accountability mechanisms and the stability of policy networks will be important to ensuring stable housing for people with psychiatric disability.
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Edgar, Gemma Tamsin Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "What does it mean to engage with the state? a comparative case study of two non-government organisations working with marginalised young people." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44569.
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This thesis is centrally concerned with the question of how non-government organisations (NGOs) can support marginalised young people and the role the state plays in facilitating this. It utilises a comparative case study methodology and examines the circumstances of two NGOs, Twenty10: Gay and Lesbian Youth Support, located in Sydney, Australia and the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) which is located in both London and Manchester in the United Kingdom. Twenty10 and AKT share a similar client base: both work with gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered (GLBT) young people experiencing homelessness or in a housing crisis. Both also engage in advocacy and service provision. At the time of my fieldwork Twenty10 and AKT differed in two key respects. First, AKT operated in a political context that was significantly more open to NGO advocacy than was the case for Twenty10. Second, AKT was supported almost entirely by the work of volunteers and through philanthropic support, whereas Twenty10 received the bulk of its funding from government. These differing factors allow a consideration of how the varying nature of an NGO???s relationship with the state impacts upon their activities within varying political contexts. The theoretical frameworks drawn upon in this thesis are those of citizenship theory and queer theory. Citizenship theory is particularly useful in analysing the objectives of Twenty10 and AKT, which focus on redressing the distributive and recognition based needs of their young people. The strategies employed by these organisations are also both subsumed within the normative framework of citizenship theory ??? while nonetheless being dependent upon how closely each engages with the state. These case studies are situated against the queer critique of citizenship discourses, which emphasise its normalising and de-politicising consequences. As such, this thesis evaluates critiques of forms of activism that involve citizenship-focused issues and engagement with the state, and hence examines the effect a relationship with the state can have upon an NGO???s work.
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Hedlund, Camilla, and Camilla Jeppsson. "Att få bo och komma till ro : Om arbetet på Gamlebo ett äldreboende för personer som varit hemlösa." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-89373.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate a nursing home for people who were previously homeless. The study was based on a case study done on the nursing home Gamlebo. The fol-lowing questions were asked, (1) What conditions apply for the job? (2) How is work carried out ? (3) What are the needs of the residents at Gamlebo? (4) What distinguishes Gamlebo from other nursing homes for older people? A qualitative approach was used along with semi-structured interviews. The theory was made with standard theory. The results showed that the staff at Gamlebo had the potential to work through clear guide-lines that took into account the residents' individual needs. Work was conducted with individ-ual solutions and most importantly a good treatment. A good treatment was according to the staff crucial when working with the residents. The residents were characterized by their homelessness and had a distrust of society. To create trust towards the residents was therefore crucial and to wait out the residents own will. What distinguishes Gamlebo from other tradi-tional nursing homes is that the staff has the expertise and experience to meet older people who have been homeless in their own terms.
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Allgire, David James. "Evaluation of field based ministry project 11 week class designed to facilitate recovery for people experiencing homelessness resulting in part from struggles with drug addiction and/or alcoholism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0292.
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Johansson, Markus, Mats Jakobsson, and Jane Kotz. "Titel: ”Det ska inte vara något jävla fyllställe där man släpar hem folk och grejer” : En studie om hemlösa missbrukares syn på socialtjänstens gruppboenden i Gotlands kommun." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-363.
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<p>Studiens syfte har varit att få kunskap om hemlösa klienters syn på sin boendesituation. Samt att få fördjupad kunskap om klienternas upplevelse av möjlighet till förändring och hur de beskriver att de bemöts och behandlas på Beroendeverksamhetens gruppboenden. En kvalitativ metod har använts för att besvara syftet. Det empiriska materialet består av intervjuer med sju personer som för närvarande bor på ett kommunalt gruppboende. Tolkningsramen har utgjorts av teorier och forskning kring förändringsprocesser och strategier för att motverka hemlöshet. Rollteori har också använts för att ge en djupare förståelse för interaktionen mellan individer och mellan individ och organisation.</p><p>Resultaten visar att det är svårt att trivas på en institution. Det har mycket att göra med den maktstruktur som präglar en sådan inrättning. I studien framkom att det skapas motståndsstrategier för att värja sig i en sådan situation. Resultatet visar också att motstånd skapas när man inte känner sig delaktig i sin egen förändringsprocess. Det är viktigt för de boende att kunna påverka sin boendesituation. Boende som tycker de får hjälp på boendet anser att de kan använda vistelsen till något positivt.</p><p>Personalens roll inskränker sig för de boendes del till att vara behjälpliga med praktiska saker, ett slags yttre förändring. Någon tycker att personalen även kan vara ett socialt stöd i en inre mening, att hjälpa de boende med strategier som gör att de kan fortsätta att leva ett drogfritt liv. Studien visar vidare att man både önskar mer av socialt stöd samtidigt som några upplever att man själv är det bästa verktyget i en förändringsprocess. Resultatet visar slutligen att institutionens strikta regler blir en viktig förändringsfaktor i klienternas liv. Kravet på drogfrihet gör att de boende får upp ögonen på ett alternativt sätt att leva. Slutsatsen är att institutionen bidrar till att förmedla känslan av att en förändring är möjlig.</p><br><p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Title: ”It’s not supposed to be a bloody hangout where you bring people and stuff” A study on how homeless clients feels about living in communal group homes provided to them by the social services.</p><p>The purpose of this paper has been to gain knowledge about homeless clients view on their housing situation. And also to learn more about how clients perceive the possibility to change and how they feel they are being treated at the social services collective housing facilities. A qualitative approach has been used in order to answer these questions. The empirical material consists of seven interviews with people currently staying at the communal homes mentioned above. The study’s frame of interpretation has consisted of theories and research about changing processes and strategies to counteract homelessness. Role theory has also been used in order to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between individuals and between individual and organisation.</p><p>The results in general show that it is hard to feel at home in an institutional setting. This has mainly to do with the unequal power structure that exists in such places. The study shows that under such circumstances oppressed people develop resistance strategies in order to cope. Furthermore the results points to the fact that resistance is more likely to occur when you’re feeling that you have no influence on your own future life situation. It is vital for the residents’ well being to be able to have an active part in their living situation. Those who feel they get adequate help in the institution are most likely to see the stay as a positive experience.</p><p>The role of the staff is primarily limited to helping out with practical things. This can be seen as a way of helping the residents to adapt to society’s rules. Someone thinks that the staff also can function as a social support that helps them rethink their attitude towards their drug abuse. The results are somewhat ambiguous in that respect. The clients do want more of social support from the staff. At the same time they emphasises that the best agent in a successful changing process is the own self. The results finally show that the strict rules of the institution turn out to play an important role as a changing factor in the lives of the clients. The demand for total abstinence from drugs and alcohol helps in demonstrating for the clients an alternative way to live. The conclusion of this is that the institution contributes in conveying the message that change is in fact possible.</p>
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Westerdahl, Caroline, and Therese Jonsson. "Hemlöshet bland äldre : -Ett komplext fenomen." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för beteendevetenskap och socialt arbete, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-27720.
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Syftet med denna studie har varit att få en förståelse för hur situationerna för äldre i hemlösa situationer kan se ut samt bidragande orsaker till varför de blir kvar i hemlösheten. För att uppfylla syftet har kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts med organisationer som kommer i kontakt med de äldre i hemlösa situationer. Utifrån deras erfarenheter har det gått att urskilja teman som beskriver den rådande situationen för de äldre i hemlöshet utifrån bidragande orsaker och tillvaron i den hemlösa situationen. Temana beskriver bland annat hur de äldre exkluderas från olika hjälpinsatser och hur det, vi benämner som, slitsamma livet kan se ut men också förslag på förebyggande åtgärder. Temana tolkades utifrån en individuell, en strukturell perspektiv, samt normer, normalisering och kategorisering. Studiens slutsats belyser vikten av vidare studier inom området, specifikt i relation till den biologiska ålderns betydelse i relation till det sociala stödsystemets kategoriseringar. Det är även av vikt att studera förekomsten av skillnader mellan långvarig och kortvarig tid i att vara äldre i en hemlös situation.<br>The purpose of this study is to develop a thorough understanding of the representation of homeless older people and an insight into contributing factors as to why they remain homeless. To meet the purpose of the study, qualitative interviews have been conducted with organizations that come into contact with older people in homeless situations. Themes have been identified based on the experiences that describe the current situation of the elderly in homeless situations including the contributing factors and the amount of time spent in homelessness. The themes detail how the elderly are excluded from various relief efforts and how the backbreaking life can be, and also suggestions for homelessness preventive measures. These themes were interpreted on an individual basis and a structural approach and standards, normalization, and categorization. The study's conclusion highlights the importance of further study in this area, specifically in relation to the biological age significance in relation to the social support system categorizations. Another important factor is to study the differences between long and short-term homelessness in older people.
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Velli, Linda Joan. "Young people's transition into and out of homelessness /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19972.pdf.
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Williams, Julia. "Street homelessness : people's experiences of health and health care provision." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426214.
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Borysow, Igor da Costa. "O Consultório na Rua e a atenção básica à população em situação de rua." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5137/tde-12062018-132859/.
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Trata-se de análise a respeito do Consultório na Rua, estratégia de atenção básica às pessoas em situação de rua. Foram utilizados três métodos para compreender este serviço: análise comparada das propostas legais das unidades móveis de Portugal, Estados Unidos da América e Brasil; estudo sócio-histórico, por meio da sociogênese proposta por Pierre Bourdieu, com base em documentos oficiais, literatura indexada e entrevistas de agentes; e avaliação de implantação de uma equipe de Consultório na Rua da cidade de São Paulo, utilizando-se de observação participante, informações oriundas de relatórios e prontuários, entrevistas com trabalhadores e usuários do serviço, e apoiando-se em modelo lógico e matriz de avaliação de grau de implantação. A proposta brasileira de unidade móvel apresentou semelhanças no uso de equipes multiprofissionais e oferecimento de ações de redução de danos entre as demais analisadas, elementos que contribuem para o alcance da equidade. Sua gênese foi possível em contexto político favorável ao investimento de políticas sobre drogas e expansão da Política Nacional de Atenção Básica. Porém sofreu influências de conflitos entre agentes de diferentes polos do espaço social. A análise de implantação revelou adaptações da proposta federal oriundas de programas anteriores do município de São Paulo, de limitações da rede de serviços, e influências de conflitos identificados na gênese<br>This is an analysis of the Clinic on the Street, a strategy of basic care for people in homelessness. Three methods were used to understand this service: comparative analysis of the legal proposals of the mobile units of Portugal, the United States of America and Brazil; socio-historical study, through the sociogenesis proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, based on official documents, indexed literature and interviews of agents; and evaluation of the implantation of a \'Clinic on the Street\' team from São Paulo, using participant observation, information from reports and records, interviews with workers and users of the service, and based on a logistic model and evaluation matrix of degree of implantation. The Brazilian proposal of mobile unit showed similarities in the use of multiprofessional teams and offering harm reduction actions among the others analyzed, elements that contribute to equity. Its genesis was possible in a political context favorable to the investment of policies on drugs and expansion of the National Policy of Basic Attention. However, it was influenced by conflicts between agents from different poles of the social space. The implementation analysis revealed adaptations of the federal proposal from previous programs in the city of São Paulo, limitations of the service network, and influences of conflicts identified in the genesis
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Valado, Martha Trenna. "Factors Influencing Homeless People's Perception and Use of Urban Space." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195017.
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In recent years, cities worldwide have employed various tactics to control homeless people's use of urban space. Yet such measures never fully accomplish their goal, because homeless people develop ways to adapt the hostile landscape. In so doing, they not only respond to tactics of spatial control but they also create their own conceptions of urban space that serve to compensate for the structural systems that fail or even punish them. Thus, just as legal categories of property ownership leave homeless people without access to private spaces, they in turn create their own concepts of ownership and continually seek to privatize public space. Whereas legal restrictions are passed that criminalize homelessness in order to protect housed urban residents' "quality-of-life," homeless people develop tactics to protect themselves from the dangers of street life. Just as municipal authorities remove various amenities and add deterrents to try to prevent the use of certain locations, homeless people are attracted and repelled by features that are often beyond the control of authorities. While social services are relocated to encourage either spatial dispersion or concentration, homeless people build internal support networks that often serve their short-term needs better than social services. In short, homeless people not only respond to spatial control tactics in a variety of ways but also create their own landscape that often frustrates attempts to control their use of space. Drawing on interviews with 60 homeless people in Tucson, Arizona, this dissertation attempts to shed light on both these facets of street life, revealing that homeless people constantly strategize to find or make private, safe, functional, comfortable, and supportive places for themselves in a landscape designed to exclude them. Findings indicate that restrictive urban polices aimed at controlling the movements and actions of street people are not only ineffective but also exacerbate the problem of homelessness. These policies have the greatest impact on newly homeless individuals, pushing them toward existing street community in order to access vital information and support networks.
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Marcolino, Sheila Costa. "Saída das ruas ou reconstrução de vida: a trajetória de estudantes universitários ex-moradores de rua em São Paulo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17587.
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Previous issue date: 2012-06-18<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>The aim of this research is identifying in the trajectory of university students, who are also former homeless people in Sao Paulo, objective and subjective elements that contributed with their process of getting off the streets.
The narrative of the researched subjects, besides presents a unique process that differentiates them in the context of the homelessness, conveys throughout their own voices and experiences an assessment of the social service which they accessed and used as homeless people.
Thus, this study displaces the debate to the realm of effectiveness of the homeless people care policy, focusing on the social service s outcomes in the subjects process of overcoming and getting off the streets.
The acknowledgment of social movements, the production of knowledge on homelessness, and the construction of homeless people care policy in Sao Paulo in the last 10 years, are fundamentally important for this research. This is because the achievements, stagnations and retrocession which historically have shaped the construction of that policy point out two premises: the first has an emergency character with a pattern focus based on job placement as the way to get people off the streets, and the second integrates principles of dignity, citizenship and recognition of the subject as well as the variety of needs and human capacity and potential. This latter approach suggests a broader process and articulations leading to the subjects autonomy for reconstruction of their lives<br>Este estudo busca identificar nas trajetórias de estudantes universitários, ex-moradores de rua da cidade de São Paulo, elementos objetivos e subjetivos que contribuíram em seu processo de saída das ruas e reconstrução de suas vidas.
As narrativas dos sujeitos, para além de demonstrar um processo singular que os diferenciam no contexto em que estavam inseridos quando em situação de rua, expressam, pela própria voz e vivências, uma avaliação sobre a dinâmica de serviços socioassistenciais que utilizaram nesse percurso. É um estudo que reposiciona algumas questões sobre a atenção a essa população na cidade de São Paulo. O reconhecimento do movimento das lutas sociais, da produção de conhecimentos sobre a temática, bem como o conteúdo da Política de Atenção à População em Situação de Rua na cidade de São Paulo nos últimos 10 anos, têm fundamental importância para este estudo. Os avanços, estagnações e retrocessos que marcam historicamente o desempenho dessa política ao longo de diferentes governos da cidade, indicam dois pressupostos que resultam da atenção à população em situação de rua na cidade: um de caráter emergencial, fragmentado e restritivo com enfoque padronizador, fundamentado na operação de saída da rua. Outro, pautado na processualidade e que a partir de valores e princípios de dignidade e cidadania no reconhecimento do sujeito e na diversidade de necessidades e das capacidades humanas, sugerem referências pautadas em processos que conduzam ao protagonismo e autonomia para reconstrução de vidas
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HSIEH, HAN-HSIN, and 謝翰昕. "The Course of Exiting From and Returning Into Homelessness: A Pilot Study of The New Taipei City Homelessness People." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/exu6r9.
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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>社會工作學系碩士班<br>104<br>The homeless has been seen as an issue which government were acknowledged it should be deal with cross-departments. However, related welfares, regulations and researches were still have rooms for improvement. Currently, the study of homeless in Taiwan, are belongs to master and doctoral thesis. The quantitative study of the homeless' real life and the issue of exiting from and returning into homelessness were deficient. Through real cases and literature reviews, researcher has profound insight on homelessness issue. From the field study, researcher observe a phenomenon that social workers make great efforts to assist those homeless who were constantly stay at half-way home to rent a house outside. But some return to homelessness again shortly after. Therefore, research would like to know what happened on them and what had they been through to lead these people back to homelessness.
The homeless' definition in Taiwan is different from America and England. It isn't seen as a residency problem but personal. But the issue of homelessness isn't just personal but also structural, familial and other factors which were inter- affect. Moreover, studies indicated that the type of exiting from homelessness will affect the possibility of repeated into homelessness. In order to search for interviewees who were exiting from and returning into homelessness, researcher visit the half-way house in New Taipei City-幸福居. People who live inside are who already have a job and prepare to rent a house outside. Through the introduction from social worker, the 4 interviewees are cases who had been homelessness and after successfully rent outside and return to homelessness again. Beside 4 cases, researcher also interview the social worker who work in the half-way house-幸福居.
Research realized that the main reason for repeated homelessness is their poor healthy which leads to unstable working. And unstable working leads to unstable income made them unable to rent a house for living. In the end, they return to homelessness again. Besides, bad working conditions, the period of homeless, the regulations and environment of half-way house and other factors also affect the interviewees possibility of repeated homeless. Researcher propose 3 practical suggestions to lower the possibility of repeated homeless: establish sheltered workshop, improvement of the environment of half-way house and straighten the connection between social workers and cooperate companies. In the end of the study, researcher indicated there's limitation on this research including insufficient number of interviewees, all interviewees were introduced by half-way house and hazy memories.
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Rollinger, Laura. "Health, hygiene, and practical interventions, for people who are experiencing homelessness." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41717.
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Homelessness is a serious national and international issue, with significant implications for societal health. It is such a complicated and multifaceted issue to address, and it needs much more attention than it has currently. Alongside discussions on how to house homeless individuals, it is important to discuss how to help increase this populations overall health. The homeless population is one of the most medically at-risk patient populations. Existing research has shown that homeless individuals are at a higher risk for developing ill health and disease. They face numerous barriers to obtaining health care, and have many competing priorities. As a result, they are more likely to present to hospitals and clinics with advanced stages of disease that could have been prevented, or treated more easily earlier. Overall, the homeless population is at such a high risk of developing disease due to a variety of factors. Some of which are, their chronic exposure to the elements and other ill people, a lack of access to hygiene facilities or healthy food, and certain advantageous preventative resources. Past research has focused on interventions such as housing first over healthcare, and mobile clinical services, but they take a great deal of time and money to be fully realized. It is important to expand resources to include smaller, more feasible, preventative provisions for conditions that homeless individuals are more susceptible to such as skin cancer, tooth decay and loss, and others. More research into practical interventions, which can help improve the health and hygiene of homeless population, will close a gap in the current medical literature. This thesis focuses on practical prevention efforts for the homeless in the form of, SPF 70 spray sunscreen, hard bristled toothbrushes, sugarless gum, body wipes, dry shampoo, hand sanitizer, and more. These scientifically backed interventions can be immediately incorporated into the resources that community healthcare centers, shelters, or any other related homeless care facilities, provide. These supplies should improve homeless individuals’ health and quality of life while waiting for larger interventions such as housing, or free clinics, to be implemented. Importantly, these resources can help to bring an end to this current period in time in which homeless individuals are left to wait for any form of preventative or curative health care. As Ben Carson recently said, “Leaving [the] homeless unsheltered, unhealthy, and unsafe is a human tragedy and unacceptable.”
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Mahlangu, Timson. "The collaborative role of social workers and homeless people in addressing street homelessness." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27082.
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Homelessness is an increasing social challenge both locally and globally. Social problems associated with street homelessness and services provided to homeless people by social workers are well documented in South Africa. Little is known though concerning the collaborative role of social workers and homeless people in addressing street homelessness. This study explored the role of social workers in promoting social justice through a collaborative purpose amongst the homeless people in addressing street homelessness. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive, and contextual study was undertaken with 14 homeless participants aged 21 to 63, and eight social work participants aged 25 to 38. This study was informed by an amalgamation of two theories, indicating the collaboration theory and the structural theory. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, analysed by following Tesch’s eight steps (Creswell, 2009:186). The data was collected and verified, employing the Lincoln and Guba’s model of trustworthiness. The ethical considerations adhered throughout this study are informed consent, confidentiality and anonymity, management of information and debriefing. The major findings identified first, poverty and unemployment as major homelessness causes. Second, deprived, or non-existing family support, family or marital breakdown, substance use, migration of individuals from rural or foreign countries to city centres, as major contributing factors towards homelessness. Third, homeless people are more vulnerable to personal harm than the housed population. Fourth, the society and derogatory labels, such as crazy, nyaopes, and criminals are often used to describe these individuals. Finally, homelessness places homeless people at substantial risk of elevated mental health conditions. Implications for social work and recommendations for future research are presented.<br>Social Work<br>M.A. (Social Work)
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Tenning, Jillian. "If suit people are going to listen. A strengths-based perspective on Indigenous homeless youth." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13309.
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Indigenous youth are overrepresented within homelessness and form approximately 20 percent of the total youth homeless population in Canada that uses emergency shelters. While extensive studies have been conducted and new practices have been put in place in an effort to reduce the number of individuals experiencing homelessness, the number of Indigenous youth journeying into homelessness continues to increase. This suggests that the solutions implemented to date have inadequately addressed the needs of Indigenous youth and the situations integral to their worlds.
The purpose of this research was to explore Indigenous youths’ experiences of homelessness that promote positive identity development. It used a community-based Indigenous methodology. Building on research by Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics with the stories of Indigenous homeless youth, this research was centered at the intersection of Indigenous youth homelessness and their engagement in behaviours affected by past and present events that impact their processes of identity development. With its strengths-based lens, it deepens understandings of how Indigenous homeless youth create prosocial outcomes that bolster their self-esteem and encourage positive identity development that will support them in young adulthood and stages beyond. Indigenous youth prosocial outcomes must include holistic health outcomes that encompass spiritual, physical, mental and emotional well-being. Ultimately, this research challenges existing conversations held in society regarding Indigenous youths’ behaviours exhibited in homelessness and contributes to Indigenous resurgence, equitable colonial-Indigenous relationships, and reconciliation consistent with the goals put forth in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s recommendations.<br>Graduate<br>2022-08-09
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""Man, I just need a job": Serving People Experiencing Homelessness in an Economic-Focused Society." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14485.
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abstract: People going through homelessness in the contemporary U.S. struggle with a number of dehumanizing challenges. Even as some attempt to secure employment and end their homelessness, they may run into difficulties because they have been Othered to such a significant level. They have effectively been left out of society because of their lack of participation in its dominant activity as prescribed by market fundamentalism, the creation and exchange of goods. The following thesis seeks to explore the experience of homelessness for those within a homeless shelter environment in an economic-focused society. It utilizes Midrash Social Research Methodology (MSRM) to focus on the voice of the person going through homelessness, the marginalized Other. It relies on the phenomenology of the 20th-Century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in an effort to explore the meaning and knowledge to be found in conversations held with the Other. The goal of this thesis is to propose a purposeful refocusing on service through conversation. The issue of homelessness is multi-faceted and its causes are as diverse as the people who experience it. Service providers in particular must engage those being Othered, and they must provide support in ways that allow for pluralistic realities, not prescribing singular means of ending homelessness.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>M.A. Social Justice and Human Rights 2011