Download or read book Homeless Families on Cape Cod Massachusetts written by Lee M. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families at Risk of Homelessness in the Land of Plenty written by Lee M. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeless Families in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rehousing Homeless Families in Massachusetts written by Roger Emanuel Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Massachusetts Homelessness Report 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...Covers each area of the state and includes a list of organizations concerned with the homeless...
Download or read book Out Of Sight Out Of Mind written by Yvonne Vissing and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because they're small, they're easy to overlook. Because their voices don't carry far, it's hard to hear them. We'd rather not look too closely or listen too carefully. And if we don't see them, maybe they'll just go away. But the invisible homeless cannot simply fly away to never-never land, or pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or make a wish upon a star. These homeless people are children, and they are not always in the inner cities, as Yvonne Vissing shows in this poignant study of families, housing, and poverty. As many as a third of our nation's homeless are found in rural and small-town America. They are all too commonly out of sight-and out of mind. Homelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise. Drawing on interviews with and case studies of three hundred children and their families, with supporting statistics from federal, state, and private agencies, Vissing illustrates the impact this social problem has upon education, health, and the economy. Families vividly describe the ways they have fallen through cracks in the social structure, from home ownership into homelessness. Looking toward the future, Vissing asks if homeless children are destined to become dysfunctional adults and provides a sixteen-year-old girl's moving testimony of the vagabond life her homeless family led. While the economy and the very nature of the family have changed over past decades, housing, education, and human service industries have failed to adapt. Vissing provides a planning model for improving support networks within communities and challenges Americans with a fundamental philosophical question: Do homeless children merit fullscale social intervention? Ultimately, Out of Sight, Out of Mind compels us not merely to voice concerns for family and community values, but also to assert this commitment consciously through improved essential services.
Download or read book The Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Plan to End Family Homelessness written by Massachusetts. Policy Academy on Family Homelessness and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rehousing Homeless Families in Massachusetts written by Laura Humm Delgado and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, three significant events related to family homelessness converged on the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). First, the shelters for homeless families in Massachusetts were at capacity, and over 1,000 homeless families had been placed in hotels and motels across the state. Second, Article 87 of the Amendments to the Constitution transferred the Commonwealth's Emergency Assistance (EA) program to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), thereby designating DHCD to run the emergency shelter system for homeless families and individuals. Third, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development granted Massachusetts $45 million to implement the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP), a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. With the newly acquired responsibility to run the EA program, put HPRP into practice, and rehouse the homeless families, especially those in hotels and motels, in Massachusetts, DHCD developed "the Architecture." The Architecture introduced a new policy model for how to address homelessness in Massachusetts through prevention, diversion, rehousing, and stabilization. It also provided the narrative for the HPRP Request for Responses that DHCD released July 3 1, 2009. This thesis is an analysis of how two "best practice" agencies in Massachusetts put the HPRP policy into practice using the Architecture developed by DHCD. Those two agencies are Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP) in Boston and the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance (CMHA) in Worcester. The agencies' practices upon which this research focuses are rehousing and stabilization programs for homeless families, including landlord outreach and support. This thesis provides an analysis of how the agencies incorporate this new HPRP policy into existing practice while coping with the challenges and dilemmas they encounter along the way.
Download or read book The Green Family of Cape Cod Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Massachusetts HomeBASE Program written by Ellen Elizabeth Ward and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massachusetts is the only state in the US to maintain an emergency shelter entitlement for homeless families with its own dedicated line item in the state budget. However, in the last decade that line item has increased by 134%. In fiscal year 2011, Massachusetts spent more money on homeless services while at the same time serving more families through the Emergency Assistance (EA) system than ever before. In an attempt to rein in the cost and volume of participants in the system, the state underwent a major reform that culminated in the launch of a new program, HomeBASE, on August 1st, 2011. The program adopted a housing-first approach to serving families at imminent risk of homelessness that offered financial assistance for families to secure their own housing unit rather than entering an emergency shelter. This thesis looks at the implications of the housing-first policy shift and determines whether the program was able to achieve its intended goals: to reduce the cost and volume of the EA system. I find that the costs associated with offering 12-months of rental assistance are less than half of the average cost of serving a family in EA shelter. However, the savings are partially offset by the increase in demand for assistance when offering a housing subsidy instead of emergency shelter. To understand the reasons for the increased demand, I compare families enrolled in HomeBASE to EA shelter families from previous years to determine which, if any, factors contributed to demand. I find that HomeBASE did not attract a different population of families but merely more of the same. Using this analysis I make recommendations for how the state can modify the program using targeting tools and stabilization services to achieve its intended outcomes. These recommendations are relevant for other homeless policymakers and service providers as more and more programs adopt a housing-first approach to homelessness.
Download or read book People in Crisis written by Lee Ann Hoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of People in Crisis, published in 1978, established success as a comprehensive and user-friendly text for health and social service professionals. The book and its following incarnations included critical life events and life cycle transition challenges, clearly pointing out the interconnections between such events, stressful developmental changes, and their potential for growth but also danger of suicide and/or violence toward others. This revised edition includes new case examples and expanded coverage of cross-cultural content, including 'commonalities and differences' in origins, manifestations, and crisis responses. The authors illustrate the application of crisis concepts, assessment, and intervention strategies across a wide range of health and mental health settings, as well as at home, school, workplace, and in the community. Each chapter contains a closing summary that includes discussion questions, references, and online data sources for maximum application and learning. Updated chapters discuss new, research-based content on: • workplace violence and abuse • youth violence in schools and higher education settings • the use of psychotropic drugs, including for very young children in the absence of comprehensive assessment • the crisis vulnerability of war veterans and the hazards of 'pathologizing' what should be considered a 'normal' response to the repeated and catastrophic trauma of war • the intersection of socio-political factors with individuals’ psychological healing from catastrophic experiences such as war and natural disaster.
Download or read book The Weeks Family of Cape Cod Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-05-08 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policy Shifts in the Massachusetts Response to Family Homelessness written by Margaret A. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welfare Motels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homelessness in America II written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cape Cod Housing in the 70 s written by Barnstable County (Mass.). Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commission and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
