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The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
In 2001, the U.S. Congress required that HUD fund communities to implement information systems to track the use of homelessness services, with the understanding that ending homelessness requires knowledge about the size of the problem and the way in which … Continue reading
Feasibility of a computer‑assisted social network motivational interviewing intervention for substance use and HIV risk behaviors for housing first residents
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Year: 2016
Social networks play positive and negative roles in the lives of homeless people influencing their alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) and HIV risk behaviors. This study is the first of its kind that has developed, with input from Housing First staff … Continue reading
Integrated Primary Care in Assertive Community Treatment
Psychiatric Services in Advance
Year: 2016
Assertive community treatment (ACT) has the potential to serve as a medical home for adults with serious mental illness, a population that experiences some of the most significant health disparities in the United States. Using site visit methodology, the authors … Continue reading
Pilot Test of an Adapted, Evidence-Based HIV Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for Homeless Women
Society for Research Prevention
Year: 2016
Women experiencing homelessness are at heightened risk for HIV, yet risk reduction interventions specifically designed for this population are lacking. This study reports on a pilot efficacy trial of a brief evidence-based intervention, Sister To Sister (STS), that we specifically … Continue reading
Risk behavior and access to HIV/AIDS prevention services in a community sample of homeless persons entering permanent supportive housing
AIDS Care
Year: 2016
Homeless persons suffer disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, and moving into permanent supportive housing (PSH) can provide a stable base from which to access needed prevention services. However, little is known about HIV risk or prevention behavior during this … Continue reading
Roadmap to a Unified Measure of Housing Insecurity
CESR-SCHAEFFER
Year: 2016
We argue for the development of a unified measure of housing insecurity, which includes the creation of a consistent definition and an instrument that allows researchers to accurately measure the problem. Our survey of the literature uncovers that there are … Continue reading
Location, Location, Location: Perceptions of Safety and Security Among Formerly Homeless Persons Transitioned to Permanent Supportive Housing
Journal of the Society for Social Work & Research
Year: 2016
Objective: Low perceived safety and security might have adverse health consequences, especially for chronically homeless individuals who are at high risk of victimization on the street. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an effective strategy to address chronic homelessness and improve … Continue reading
How Would Terminating USICH Affect Efforts to End Homelessness?
Urban Institute
Year: 2016
To understand the US Interagency Council on Homelessness’s (USICH’s) role in the nation’s efforts to end homelessness and potential effects of the agency’s impending termination in 2017, we interviewed more than 50 federal, national, state, and local stakeholders across the … Continue reading
How the Federal Government is Working to End Homelessness
Urban Institute
Year: 2016
Veteran homelessness has fallen 47 percent since 2010. Though no one agency or organization can take full credit for this progress, many stakeholders we interviewed said that the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) played a critical role in helping … Continue reading
A computer-assisted motivational social network intervention to reduce alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors among housing first residents
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Year: 2016
Background: Individuals transitioning from homelessness to housing face challenges to reducing alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors. To aid in this transition, this study developed and will test a computer-assisted intervention that delivers personalized social network feedback by an intervention … Continue reading