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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022 Background It is estimated that around 160,000 households in Britain experience homelessness each year, although no definitive statistics exist. Between March and September 2020, as part of the initial ‘Everyone In’ government response to COVID-19 in ...
Elizabeth Randell +16 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson +6 more
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Estimating annual rates of homelessness
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Homelessness is an important though exceedingly difficult phenomenon to measure and understand. The most common sources of data measure homelessness only on a given night or set of consecutive nights, contact with homelessness service ...
James O'Donnell
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The value of utility payment history in predicting first-time homelessness.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Homelessness is a costly and traumatic condition that affects hundreds of thousands of people each year in the U.S. alone. Most homeless programs focus on assisting people experiencing homelessness, but research has shown that predicting and preventing ...
Colin D Middleton +3 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
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2022 South Carolina State of Homelessness Report
, 2022 This report is intended to provide a broad overview of the extent of homelessness and housing instability in South Carolina. This report also includes overviews of statewide programs that are currently providing housing and services to individuals and ...
South Carolina Council on Homelessness
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Pathways into multiple exclusion homelessness in seven UK cities [PDF]
, 2013 This paper interrogates pathways into multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) in the UK and, informed by a critical realist theoretical framework, explores the potential causal processes underlying these pathways.
Johnsen, Sarah +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor +3 more
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Homelessness among Indigenous Australians [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents information on the prevalence of homelessness among Indigenous Australians, the characteristics of Indigenous people who are homeless, and the use of specialist homelessness services by Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of
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