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This brief summarizes the current knowledge base and identifies key areas for future research related to human services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. It focuses on three types of services funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S....
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Homelessness is part of the lives of many people. But almost no one is homeless for all or most of his or her life. The … median shelter homeless spell is well under a month, and even “chronic homelessness” officially entails spells of a year or … so. I model homelessness as part of people’s lives in a dynamic stochastic framework in continuous time. I can explain …
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concerning solutions to address the recurring homelessness social problem, while a third, more moderate one contributed in …
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This paper aims to explore the commonality of social policies on homelessness between Japan and England and to discuss … the role of social policy in response to the recent emergence of homelessness throughout the world. Japan and England are … regarded as different types of welfare state, and policies towards homelessness in both countries contrast sharply with each …
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homelessness, though the way it exercises that power has taken new forms. Government by …'legislation';,'regularization';and'subven tions';. The paper focuses on the central state's approach to initiatives against homelessness, with special regard to its … understanding that homelessness is not a necessary feature of a modern nation, and that it would be possible for the central state …
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This study examined the Continuum of Risk Hypothesis by assessing the unique relations between early homelessness and … homelessness and academic engagement problems in school. However, after controlling for co-occurring risks, an experience of … homelessness was found to be uniquely related to social engagement problems in first grade. These results support the Continuum of …
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by poverty and homelessness. This study examined African-American homeless and unstably housed youth's interests in …
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about the policing of homelessness in those areas into which homeless people are exiled. To address this lacuna, this … pathologies deemed responsible for homelessness. The article thus provides an analysis of how, why and with what consequences the … policing of homelessness varies over space. …
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is to critically interrogate particular faith-based organisations’ moral discourses on homelessness, and to show how …
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This paper describes a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a savings competition on the behavior of homeless individuals staying at a transitional shelter. When monetary prizes were offered for achieving the highest savings rates within a particular month, savings increased while...
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