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Ortiz, Valdez Miguel Alberto. "Integrating faith into social services for homeless immigrants." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Millspaugh, Gary F. "Use of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act by two small cities." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Card, Amanda Nicole, and Heather Nicole Sylvester. "Service utilization among the mentally ill homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3143.
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This study conducted in-depth interviews with 11 homeless or formerly homeless individuals at eh Central City Lutheran Mission. The focus of this research project is mental health service utilization among the homeless in San Bernardino. A wide array of services are available to the mentally ill homeless in this area, however services offered often do not meet the needs of this population.
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Atkinson, Joellen Marie. "A program evaluation of a structured homeless shelter." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1255.
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This study compared homeless shelters, one was a structured homeless shelter and the other a non-structured homeless shelter, evaluating the residents' level of social functioning and level of self-sufficiency at both shelters. A structured shelter may offer counseling, parenting classes, money management, nutrition classes, a 12-step program and support groups, and after school and summer programs for youths. Whereas a non-structured shelter is one that only offers a place to sleep and some food.
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Garde, Maria Salomé. "Mentally ill homeless and companion pets." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2186.
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The present study assessed the relationship between mentally ill homeless and their companion pets and questioned if the pets acted as a barrier for them to receive shelter and other services. The study also sought to find if pets acted as a communication tool between this population and society. themselves because they are mentally vulnerable and victims of a mental disorder.
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Robinson, Miranda Dawn. "Do the homeless choose to remain homeless?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1366.
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Parks, Susan Carol. "A needs assessment of the homeless and the lack of affordable housing programs for the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3297.
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The purpose of this study was to interview the social workers that work with the homeless population within the Inland Empire. Explored were the social workers perceptions of and attitudes about the homeless population as well as hoping to understand the lack of housing for the homeless and to find out what can be done to provide housing for them.
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Prasad, Vandana. "A study to understand the barriers and facilitating factors for accessing health care amongst adult street dwellers in New Delhi, India." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5387.
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Master of Public Health - MPHUrban health policy has remained a neglected area in India. The homeless remain the most deprived, neglected and stigmatized group amongst the urban poor. While they suffer from a large burden of disease, there are a variety of reasons that prevent them from accessing the available health care services – particularly in the public health sector. Some interventions by concerned non-governmental organisations have attempted to circumvent the barriers to health care access faced by the homeless but these have not been well documented or assessed. This study seeks to establish both the barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care and health care seeking amongst adult street dwellers in an area of New Delhi which is known for a high concentration of homeless persons. Using a qualitative approach 18 adult street dwellers (both male and female) were individually interviewed – along with 6 key informants working in the public and non-governmental health sector. This was accompanied by a process of participant-observation. The results were analyzed by identifying recurrent themes associated with barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care by the homeless, following which a set of recommendations related to the homeless, have been developed so as to inform those working in the public health sector. In terms of ethics, informed consent was taken from each interviewee and they were explicitly given the option not to participate without adverse consequences to themselves. If any participant was found with acute health problems immediate assistance was facilitated. The study reveals a number of barriers faced by the homeless in attempting to access health care services. While minor ailments are taken care of by local private practitioners, they need to access public health care services for major problems. There they encounter many barriers due to the lack of money, delays and being shunted from place to place. Moreover, they are not able to get admission for reasons such as lack of address and the lack of an attendant. Facilitating factors include assistance for transportation, facilitation of admissions, arranging money for out of pocket expenditures on drugs and consumables, arranging blood and providing after-care. The role of social contacts in enabling access is also demonstrated through this study. The recommendations that emerge from the study are intended to assist in policy advocacy towards a comprehensive health care system for them, as well as assist health care providers to provide a better service for homeless people.
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Anderson, Queenesther Marie. "Women and homelessness in San Bernardino County: Causes, demographics, services, and hope." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3108.
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This study examines the conditions of hopelessness in the city of San Bernardino. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which women and men's accessing of services for homelessness differ. This study employs a survey administered at an event given specifically for the homeless population in San Bernardino, and the differences between men and women and their access to support is documented.
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Willoughby, Kate. "The moderating influence of resilience on childhood trauma : towards an understanding in homeless persons." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/163083/.
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Resilience is offered as a theoretical framework from which the competent functioning of a small proportion of survivors of childhood trauma can be understood. Despite the likely deleterious impact of abuse and neglect some individuals continue to thrive and achieve positive outcomes. The literature investigating protective factors implicated in resilience to childhood trauma is reviewed. Studies indicate that certain individual and environmental protective factors provide encouraging experiences and promote positive adaptation. Although current literature needs to move to a more process orientated approach for investigating resilience, existing findings offer valuable insights for the direction of prevention and intervention programmes for at-risk populations. This focus on strengths rather than deficits paves the way for innovative approaches especially with disenfranchised groups who might otherwise be less receptive, for instance individuals marginalised from society such as homeless individuals. On this basis, the empirical study investigated the relationship between childhood trauma and maladaptive coping and the relative influence of resilience, in homeless individuals. A significant relationship between childhood physical abuse and maladaptive coping existed, which was moderated by high levels of resilience. It is postulated that resilience in the homeless population may have a greater protective effect against maladaptive coping as severity of childhood physical abuse decreases. Studies replicating these findings in this and other disenfranchised groups are essential in order to fully understand the role of resilience and potential benefit of promoting and enhancing resilience and coping in reducing tenancy breakdown and therefore chronic and repeated homelessness.
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Schindeler, Emily Martha. "A genealogy of the problematic of homelessness and the homeless in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32068/1/Emily_Schindeler_Thesis.pdf.
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The homeless have been subject to considerable scrutiny, historically and within current social, political and public discourse. The aetiology of homelessness has been the focus of a large body of economic, sociological, historical and political investigation. Importantly, efforts to conceptualise, explain and measure, the phenomenon of homelessness and homeless people has occurred largely within the context of defining “the problem of the homeless” and the generation of solutions to the ‘problem’. There has been little consideration of how and why homelessness has come to be seen, or understood, as a problem, or how this can change across time and/or place. This alternative stream of research has focused on tracing and analysing the relationship between how people experiencing homeless have become a matter of government concern and the manner in which homelessness itself has been problematised. With this in mind this study has analysed the discourses - political, social and economic rationalities and knowledges - which have provided the conditions of possibility for the identification of the homeless and homelessness as a problem needing to be governed and the means for translating these discourses into the applied domain. The aim of this thesis has been to contribute to current knowledge by developing a genealogy of the conditions and rationalities that have underpinned the problematisation of homelessness and the homeless. The outcome of this analysis has been to open up the opportunity to consider alternative governmental possibilities arising from the exposure of the way in which contemporary problematisation and responses have been influenced by the past. An understanding of this process creates an ability to appreciate the intended and unintended consequences for the future direction of public policy and contemporary research.
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Suzuki, Tsudoi. "Comparative analysis of depression in homeless populations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2393.
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The purpose of this project was to find out whether or not there were specific factors that made homeless people depressed. Finding depression factors will help to establish strategies and programs that would prevent homeless people from being depressed. The current study tested the hypothesis that basic needs and education are needed to help in factoring depression.
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Roth-Felter, Cynthia Sophia. "Ethnic make up of individuals who receive services from San Bernardino County's mentally ill homeless program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2017.
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Sackett, William James. "An assessment of Lifeline, a transitional shelter for women and their children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2239.
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This study was an outcome assessment of how well "Lifeline", a transitional shelter for women and their children, has been fulfilling its stated mission. It was also a program evaluation in terms of learning what former residents of Lifeline think about the quality and the importance of Lifeline's program.
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Kilic, Gorunmek Hediye. "Demand and Supply Explanation: Nonprofit Size in Homeless Service Area." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404549/.
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This study explores the demand and supply oriented factors that may contribute to the size of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. communities. This research tests demand theory, which indicated that nonprofit organizations grow more in communities where large service demand exists and when there is a service gap between community demand and government service supply. On the other hand, supply theories contend that nonprofit organizations are prevalent where a community carries the supply of human capital and financial resources and these supply of human and economic capital will mobilize nonprofit organizations to fulfill civic duties. For the scientific test of demand and supply theories, this study employs hierarchical linear model (HLM) and develops a longitudinal data set from multiple sources such as Department of Housing and Urban Development and National Charitable Center for Statistics, and Census. The proposed model analyzes how demand and supply indicators explain homeless serving nonprofit organizations size. The size of homeless service nonprofit was measured by three indicators: number of nonprofits, revenue of nonprofits and number of shelter beds. The findings of HLM analyses confirmed some of demand and supply factors that contribute homeless service nonprofit size. The communities with higher level of chronic homeless population have more nonprofit organizations when we control community size. Also, we found the communities with a greater number of educated individuals are more likely to invest in nonprofit organizations. And it was noteworthy that the higher education institution was a positive supply factor for the nonprofit size in our communities.
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Colby, Jason Wayne. "The effects of housing on the biological, psychological, and sociological functioning of homeless persons with Human Immuno Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2379.
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The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of housing services on the bio-psycho-social functioning of homeless persons with HIV/AIDS. Ideally, taking a homeless person with HIV/AIDS and returning them to a healthy state would be a goal of any social service intervention.
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van, Wormer Rupert Talmage. "Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Community Mental Health Patients with Severe Mental Illness." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/653.
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The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors associated with homelessness, assess the relationship between housing status and consumption of costly publicly funded resources, to identify characteristics associated with service retention, and to evaluate whether length of treatment is associated with better outcomes. The target population was homeless and formerly homeless adults with SMI enrolled in community mental health services at the Downtown Emergency Service Center SAGE mental health program located in Seattle. The sample consisted of 380 SAGE patients who had continuous enrollment in 2005. These patients formed the cohort for the study. Agency records for these patients were reviewed for a 3-year period (2005-2007). The study utilized a non-experimental retrospective cohort study design. Multiple logistic regression, hierarchical multiple regression, two-way repeated measures ANOVA, and Cochran's Q test were used to analyze the data. Homelessness was associated with African American race, substance use, lower income, and younger age. Patients who were homeless spent more time in jail and required more mental health staff time compared with patients with stable housing. Patients with schizophrenia were more likely to retain services and African American patients were less likely to retain services. Overall, patients who remained enrolled in services from Year 1 to Year 3 had improved housing stability, fewer days of incarceration, and required less staff support. The overrepresentation of African Americans among patients who experienced homelessness suggests that racism could be a factor contributing to homelessness for this racial group. Further research is needed to assess the relationship between race and homelessness.
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Poswa, Thabisa. "Utilization of community work to empower poor families." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50218.
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Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As poverty is becoming a growing concern in South Africa, poor families should not be seen as service recipients but more concern should be directed to their empowerment. Community work is an essential method to utilize for the empowerment of poor families since it involves working with people from individual up to community level. The Department of Social Development does not have guidelines based on the utilization of community work; as a result this method is not utilized to its full potential. The purpose of the study was to formulate guidelines on the utilization of community work on the family level. In order to achieve this aim, the objectives of this study, which mainly focused on describing the socio-economic circumstances of the poor families and the utilization of community work, were explored. An exploratory study was utilized in order to achieve the stated goal and objectives. The population for the study consisted of practicing social workers in the Department of Social Development. Purposive sample was used. The research methodology was a quantitative design with a data collection instrument being in the form of a questionnaire. To be able to gain insight about the utilization of community work, the questionnaire consisted of both closed and open-ended questions. Literature review enabled the researcher to compile a questionnaire. The empirical study focused on the knowledge and skills of social workers in utilizing community work. In addition, data was obtained on the community work process as a main procedure to follow when implementing community work. Despite the respondents' theoretical knowledge of community work, it was concluded that community work is utilized at a minimal level. The most utilized social work method by the respondents is casework. The reason for the lack of community work practice is based on the fact that the Department of Social Development does not have guidelines with regards to community work. It was recommended that the Department of Social Development should formulate a new regulation that will oblige the social workers to practice community work. In-service training should be held quarterly. Supervision should be offered regularly. Relevant qualification and extensive social work experience should be considered as a minimum requirement for managerial positions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel armoede 'n al groter probleem in Suid-Afrika raak, behoort arm gesinne in 'n toenemende mate nie net slegs as ontvangers van dienste beskou word nie, maar moet ook aandag geskenk word aan hulle bemagtiging. Aangesien gemeenskapswerk betrokke is by die persoon sowel as die persoon in die gemeenskap, kan dit beskou word as die aangewese metode om arm gesinne te bemagtig. Die Departement Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling beskik oor geen riglyne vir die aanwending van gemeenskapswerk nie en gevolglik word die metode nie ten volle benut nie. Die studie het ten doel om riglyne vir die implementering van gemeenskapwerk op die vlak van die gesin te formuleer. Derhalwe word die klem op die beskrywing van die sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede van arm gesinne en die gebruik van gemeenskapswerk as metodiek geplaas. 'n Verkennende studie is gebruik om die navorsingsoogmerke te bereik. Respondente vir die studie was praktiserende maatskaplike werkers in diens van die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling. 'n Doelbewuste steekproef is benut. Daar is hoofsaaklik op kwantitatiewe navorsing gefokus en inligting is deur middel van vraelyste ingewin. Ten einde insig te ontwikkel in die gebruik van gemeenskapswerk is beide oop en geslote vrae gebruik. Die literatuurstudie het die navorser in staat gestel om die vraelys saam te stel. Die empiriese studie was gerig op die kennis en vaardighede waaroor gemeenskapswerkers beskik en hoe dit geïmplementeer word. Addisionele empiriese inligting is ook ten opsigte van die proses van gemeenskapswerk verkry. Dit het aan die lig gekom dat ten spyte van voldoende teoretiese kennis van gemeenskapswerk die metode minimaal gebruik word. Gevallewerk word steeds die meeste tydens intervensie aangewend. 'n Gebrek aan riglyne vir die gebruik van gemeenskapswerk, word as die rede waarom gemeenskapswerk nie implementeer word nie, aangevoer. Dit word aanbeveel dat die Departement Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling regulasies vir die uitvoering van dienste deur middel van die gemeenskapswerk metode moet instel. Hierdie riglyne behoort maatskaplike werkers te inspireer om die voordele van gemeenskapswerk te ondersoek en aan te wend. Indiensopleiding behoort op 'n kwartaallikse basis te geskied. Supervisie moet geredelik beskikbaar wees. Relevante kwalifikasies en uitgebreide praktykervaring as minimum vereistes vir bestuursposte sal oorweeg moet word.
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Gebers, Paul Eric. "Health of street children in Cape Town, May-November 1989." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27188.
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This cross-sectional study looks at the health profiles of street children both in institutions and on the street between May and November 1989. The former group had a clinical examination, with blood and urine investigations done where possible; the latter group were only interviewed. 159 street children were interviewed of whom 47 were interviewed on the street. 73 children had clinical examinations; 64 of these had blood and urine investigations. The age range was 8 years to 19.8 years. 18.2% were females and 28.3% were black. 59,6% of those interviewed on the street had not been in an institution or shelter for street children. 27, 2% of the total group had been on the street for more 3 years. 3 7, 1 % perceived colds and chest complaints as their main physical health problem. This was confirmed by the fact that 69,2% had a history of respiratory problems. 44,7% said that they would go to a hospital if they injured themselves or were ill; however, 36,5% said they would not use or get any medication for problems such as a headache or a bad cold. 37·, 7% of children used a hospital while they were on street but 59, 7% had not used any facility while on the street. Most street children (72,8%) washed themselves at least occasionally and 61% washed their clothes. 47,2% had suffered trauma significant enough to seek hospital attention. 56% had skin problems (including lice and scabies) while on the street. 15,7% complained of visual problems and 10,7% complained of reduced hearing. Dental problems appeared to be of major concern with 37,7% complaining of either toothache or dental caries (23,3% had obvious caries on examination). 73,4% admitted to solvent abuse, 49,9% had never taken alcohol and 12,7% had never smoked. 43% had tried dagga, 10,8% white pipe (mixture of dagga and "Mandrax" which is smoked) and only 7,6% "Mandrax" alone. 10, 9% of boys and 10, 0% of girls indicated that they had been sexually exploited. Of the 67 examined 32,8% were below 90% of expected height for age, 44,8% were below 80% of expected weight for age and 8,6% had a circumference of head below 95% of standard. There is a 9,4% Hepatitis Bs ag carrier rate. No HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) antibodies were detected in 64 sera tested. On the basis of these results, the following are recommended: 1) Improving accessibility of health care resources. 2) Improving the availability of health care resources. 3)· Initiating contacts with street children by employing field health workers. 4) Drawing up a health care policy for street children institutions and field care workers. 5) Limit venereal disease management to single dose treatment where possible. 6) Further studies need to be undertaken in the following areas: - solvent abuse - utilisation of health care resources utilisation institutions of street children shelters and Further breakdown of habits, physical problems and results of examinations are presented.
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Wijk, Lívia Bustamante van. "O cuidado a pessoas em situação de rua: a experiência da Rede de Atenção Psicossocial da Sé." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5170/tde-23082017-123019/.
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O cuidado em saúde dirigido à população em situação de rua requer ações intersetoriais, que considerem as características desse grupo e respondam às suas necessidades. As diretrizes propostas pelas Políticas Públicas de Saúde e Saúde Mental oferecem subsídios para o cuidado e destacam a importância das ações serem desenvolvidas no contexto de vida das pessoas, de modo a favorecer o exercício da cidadania e dos direitos. Este estudo teve como objetivos conhecer as ações dirigidas às pessoas em situação de rua que apresentam transtorno mental, desenvolvidas pelas equipes do Consultório na Rua (CR) da Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) Sé e do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS) Adulto II Sé; identificar obstáculos e pontos de força encontrados no cotidiano de trabalho e conhecer a opinião dos usuários sobre o cuidado recebido. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, empregou os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: revisão integrativa da literatura; pesquisa documental; entrevistas semi-estruturadas com profissionais e usuários; observação participante e elaboração do caderno de campo. Os dados foram coletados entre fevereiro e abril de 2016. Os resultados evidenciaram que a maioria das ações oferecidas pelos serviços considera as características da população e busca responder às suas necessidades. A construção e manutenção do vínculo entre profissionais e usuários foram compreendidas como eixos do trabalho, que contribuem para o estabelecimento de relações humanizadas e influenciam positivamente a realização de ações. A construção do trabalho intersetorial apresentou-se como um desafio, por depender da organização e do alinhamento de cada serviço com as normativas e da relação estabelecida entre eles. Dois aspectos se destacaram nos resultados: a sobrecarga e o risco de adoecimento dos profissionais e a influência da atual forma de gestão dos serviços na produção do cuidado. Concluiu-se que as ações produzidas pelo CAPS Adulto II Sé e pelas equipes de CR da UBS Sé se encontram alinhadas às diretrizes das Políticas, porém é necessário cuidado às equipes e envolvimento da gestão nos processos de trabalho, para que a responsabilidade da produção de ações de qualidade não recaia unicamente sobre os profissionaisHealth care for homeless npopulation requires intersectoral actions that considers this group characteristics and attends his needs. Public Health and Mental Health Policies offer a guideline to actions and indicates the importance of these actions to be developed according to people life context, in a way to promote citizenship and access to rights. The goals of this research were to get known the actions developed by Psychosocial Care Center to Adults II Sé and Consultation Office in the Streets teams and offered to homeless population that presents mental disorders; to identify obstacles and points of force presents in the daily work; and know the patients opinion about the received care. This qualitative research used methodological procedures such as integrative literature review; documental research; semi-structured interview developed with professionals and patients; participant observation and field notebook construction. The data was collected between february and april/2016. The results showed that most part of actions offered by professional teams take into consideration this population needs and try to answer to these needs. The construction and maintenance of a bound between professionals and patients were comprehended as the center point of work, which contribute to establish humanized relations and positively influence actions. The construction of intersectoral work was comprehended as a challenge, due to services organization, alignment between services and guidelines and relation among different services. In the results, two aspects were highlighted: burden and risk of illness of professionals and the influence of current services structure on delivered care. As a conclusion, actions offered by professional teams are in accordance to Policies guidelines, although it is necessary to offer better care to professionals and higher involvement of administration on work processes, in order to avoid the risk of responsibility for quality actions fall over professionals only
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Losch, Ashley Peter. "Home at last' : die storie van Freedom Park en sy inwoners." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52297.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The escalation in the growing upsurge of informal settlements seems to create a few problems for local municipalities in the Cape Metropolitan Area (CMA). At the beginning of 1998 the capacity of the City Of Cape Town Municipality (CCT) was fully tested with the coming into being of a new informal settlement in the Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain area. During the Easter weekend of that year homeless people started to invade a piece of vacant land, which belongs to this municipality, illegally. With the establishing of Freedom Park many of the homeless felt that the time was ripe for this municipality to address their problems and grievances. However up till now this has not materialised, as this municipality is refusing to make any service delivery and infrastructure available to them. Despite this, the people are still reluctant to submit to the demand of the municipality to evacuate the piece of land. Hitherto many had asked questions about the settlement and its people. With the asking of these questions, people had shown their ignorance about the Freedom Park issue. This ignorance led people to make certain assumptions, which are clearly far from the truth. The aim of this study is thus to present more clear-cut answers to the most common questions people had asked and still are asking.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die groeiende toename in informele nedersettings in die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Gebied blyk toenemend om 'n probleem vir plaaslike owerhede te wees. Aan die begin van 1998 was die kapasiteit van die Kaapse Munisipaliteit om sulke situasies te hanteer ten volle getoets. In hierdie tydperk het haweloses van die Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain, area die reg in eie hande geneem deur 'n stuk grond wat aan hierdie munisipaliteit behoort onwettig te beset. Met die vestiging van Freedom Park het baie van hierdie mense gedink dat hulle frustrasies en probleme deur hierdie munisipaliteit aangehoor sou word. Dit het egter tot op hede nog nie 'n werklikheid geword, deurdat dié munisipaliteit huiwer om tydelike en korttermyn infrastrukture aan hierdie mense beskikbaar te stel. Ten spyte hiervan is die inwoners van hierdie nedersetting egter vasbeslote om nie in te gee aan die versoek van die munisipaliteit om die grond te ontruim nie. Tot op hede was daar baie vra gevra rondom hierdie nedersetting en sy inwoners. Met hierdie vrae het sulkes hulonkunde om die Freedom Park kwessie suksesvol te hanteer en te verstaan bewys. Dit is dus in hierdie lig dat hierdie studie onderneem was. Die sentrale doelwit van dié studie is dus om meer duidelikheid te werp op vrae soos: Wie is hierdie mense? Waarvandaan kom hulle? Hoekom het hulle tot so 'n drastiese stap oorgegaan?
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Zerger, Suzanne Jean. "Infirmary services for homeless persons in Toronto : a case study /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR46024.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Sociology.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-225). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR46024
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Bolas, Kim. "Youth homelessness : social and symptomatic correlates." Master's thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123821.
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The present longitudinal study utilizes the Sociological
Causal Model of Neurosis postulated by Broun and Harris (1978)3 and
the Circumplex Model3 by Olsen et al. (1976) in looking at the family
problems of youth homelessness which contribute to mental health.
Fifty subjects from the first and second stages of homelessness
participated in the study, ranging in age from 12-18 years. Data
collection was over a period of six months3 and subjects filled out
the Initial Questionnaire on arrival at a youth refuge. Follow-up
questionnaires were posted out at 6 weeks to where the subjects were
living and two outcome groups were formed: Return home and Failure
to return home. A Parents' Questionnaire was posted to the subject's
nominated parent in order to gain independent information about the
subject and the family. Four self-report scales were utilized in the study and these
were: the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (Derogatis et al. 1974) which
measured the dependent variable3 neurosis; the Adolescent Life Event
Scale by Ferguson (1981)3 the Moos Family Environment Scale (Moos and
Moos, 1976)3 and the Support Questions which were derived from the
support interview questions used by Brown and Harris (1978)3 to
measure the independent variables. The questions on family structure
asked about the subject's parental status and were divided into two
groups: nuclear and non-nuclear3 families.
The results revealed a remarkable homogeneity of sample type:
females (50%) and males (50%)3 high levels of unemployment (48%) or
still at school (48%) and high levels of family conflict (56%) and
loss of family support (28%). The majority came from non-nuclear
family structures (86%)3 compared to nuclear families (14%). Factors contributing to high levels of symptoms reported by
subjects included parental marital statuss high cumulative distress
scores3 rigidity in family rules and roles (adaptability)3 and a
family member with whom one had had recent interpersonal conflict
(made things worse). Factors conducive to psychological well-being
included high family cohesiveness and adequate family support.
Subjects who failed to return home were found to be females who had
a family member who made things worse3 but who had also received
other forms of adequate family support. Both family and personal
variables were found to be important in determining outcome following
a stay at a youth refuge.
The results suggest that the majority of homeless youth in the
first and second stages of homelessness who seek shelter at a youth
refuge due to family disruption are high risk candidates for developing
a psychological illness. The family patterns are indicative of
dysfunctional systems and that major preventative work in the
community is needed for step families and single parent families if
the problems are to be reduced.
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Van, Castricum Leonie Alma. "Maatskaplike problematiek van sorgsentrums." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9294.
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M.A. (Social Work)This study was based on qualitative research methodology and was basically exploratory, seeing as though it was aimed at the gathering of knowledge and insight. The study can also be defined as a self-initiated research as a result of the researcher's interest in the phenomenon of homelessness. As a result of the extensiveness of the problem, the study was limited to the homeless that stay in care centres in the Genniston area, of which there were four, during April 1994, when the study was undertaken. A thorough literal study was conducted, which brought to light that other countries, especially America, have already undertaken various studies to research the phenomenon of homelessness. The cross-sectional survey was chosen as the research design, which also generated hypotheses. Interview schedules were used in the collection of data and respondents were selected through systematic sampling from the target group which consisted of the total number of inhabitants of the four care centres.
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Mahape, Dimakatso Jeanette. "Facilitating mental health promotion through mobilising comfort for homeless mentally il persons." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5781.
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D. Cur.The model "Facilitating mental health promotion through mobilising comfort for homeless mentally ill persons in urban areas" was developed by using a theory generative design that is qualitative, contextual, explorative and descriptive in nature. To achieve the research purpose specific objectives were formulated. This model was developed according to Chinn and Kramer's (1995:162) approach to theory generation as indicated in the first step. Identification of the central concepts for the model took place by conducting a field study to explore and describe the lived experiences of the homeless mentally ill persons and their views of what they think would alleviate their situation. A multiple case study strategy was followed. The sample consisted of three homeless mentally ill persons, purposively selected from the Soweto urban vii areas. Informed verbal consent had been obtained from all participants, and the reasons for conducting the research study were explained to them. Data collection was obtained through in-depth semi-structured interviews using the phenomenological perspective and communication techniques to elicit relevant information. Data from transcripts of recorded audiotapes and field notes were analysed using the methods of Tesch's steps (in Creswell, 1994:154; Yin, 1994:102; and Merriam, 1998:16). An independent coder assisted in coding the results. Reasoning strategies used were analysis, synthesis, inductive and deductive according to Tesch's method. The results were verified through a literature review. Further analysis of data for defining the major concepts of the model which are "HOPE and COMFORT", were determined according to the method described by Wandelt and Steward (1983:64). The concepts of the model were analysed thoroughly by going through different dictionaries and subject usage. The other related concepts were identified and classified by using a survey list of Dickoff, James and Wiedenbach (1968:430). In Step Two the defined concepts were related to each other to show interrelationships. Classification of central and relational concepts were followed to create relationship-statements as the conceptual framework of the model. In Step Three the structure and process description of the model was designed according to Chinn and Kramer (1995:108). The model was evaluated by a panel of experts. Step Four dealt with guidelines to operationalise the model in practice, education and psychiatric nursing research. Guba and Lincoln's (1985) model for trustworthiness of qualitative research was also employed. It is based on the identification of four strategies for ensuring trustworthiness used in this study, namely: truth value, applicability, consistency and neutrality. Recommendations and limitations of the research were also discussed.
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Moyo, Unotida. "The situation of homeless mentally ill persons in Hillbrow : implications for social services." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9548.
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Barnes, Brian David. "Homeless in Indianapolis: Characteristics of the Sheltered and Long-Term Homeless." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4025.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Virtually every society can, at some point, be affected by homelessness. In recent years in the United States, homeless rates have hovered around three percent of the entire population. Although this marginalized population has been studied before, little is known regarding the possible characteristics that can keep an individual in homelessness or affect their living conditions while being homeless. This thesis provides an in-depth look at specific characteristics that could be factors in the length of the homeless experience, as well as how these same characteristics could impact the shelter status while an individual is homeless. The study reveals that homelessness in Indianapolis was mostly experienced by those who were male, African-American, and between the ages of 31-50. Furthermore, the majority were found to live in shelters and be homeless for twelve months or less.
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Johnson, Karen A. "A Syndemic Framework of Homelessness Risks Among Women Accessing Medical Services in an Emergency Department in New York City." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BC3Z87.
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Objective: Although factors that promote initial and recurring homelessness among inner city women have been long explored, impoverished women continue enter and re-enter shelters at troubling rates. This trend is projected to increase over time. This longitudinal study uses Sydemics as a framework to advance our understanding of the relationship between depression, PTSD, trauma and intimate partner violence and the loss of housing among impoverished women using inner city Emergency Departments. We hypothesized that depression, PTSD, childhood trauma and IPV are positively associated with homelessness at baseline and that women with higher rates of a combination of these variables (e.g. PTSD and IPV) in wave 1 will have higher odds of experiencing both an initial and repeat bout of homelessness in the second and/or third waves, controlling for all other variables in the study.
Method: Multivariate analyses and logistic regression, at baseline and longitudinally, were conducted to test study hypotheses with homelessness as the dependent variable. Six multivariate logistic regression models were used. Odds ratios (OR) with their 95% confidence intervals are reported.
Results: Depression and childhood trauma were individually associated with homelessness at the .05 level in this sample of low income women. IPV was marginally related to homelessness (p=0.0917). PTSD however was not. Importantly, although IPV and PSTD were not individually associated with homelessness in bivariate analyses, housed, never homeless women, and women who had previously experienced homelessness had a greater odd of becoming homeless than those who experienced only one of these risk variables. Specifically, housed, never homeless women who had PTSD and IPV had a 2.2 odd of becoming homeless for the first time in waves 2 and 3, whereas those who experienced PTSD only had a 1.3 odds of becoming homeless for the first time; never homeless participants who experienced IPV only a 1.7 greater odds of becoming homeless (CI.0.348, 14.84; p=0.385), adjusting for all other variables. Similarly, the odd of becoming homeless again among participants who had PTSD and experienced IPV was 1.7 whereas the odds of recurrent homelessness was 1.2 among those who experienced PTSD only and 1.1 among those who experienced IPV only (CI.0.397, 7.46; p=0.463), controlling for all other variables in the study.
Conclusion: Our findings confirm our hypotheses that low-income women who have PTSD, depression, histories of childhood trauma, and/or IPV have a higher odds of initial and recurrent homelessness when compared with women who do not have these risk variables. Our findings further confirm that women who have combinations of risk variables have even higher odds of future homelessness. Due to the low sample size of women with histories of homelessness in the study, there was lack of power. Despite this challenge, the results of these explorations (in determining heretofore unidentified effect sizes) utilizing Syndemics as a conceptual framework are promising. Future research with larger sample sizes (and sufficient power) are important to further the initial findings from this study.
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Rolle, Mary Joy. "Health care for homeless individuals : implications of the patient protection and Affordable Care Act." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3618.
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This professional report explores the unique health needs of homeless individuals, how homeless individuals access medical and mental health services, and the impact that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have on medical services for homeless individuals. Homeless individuals are more likely to experience physical and mental health problems and earlier mortality rates than the general population. Common access points for homeless medical services include clinics, such as Community Health Centers, and emergency care centers, such as hospital emergency rooms. Homeless individuals often face barriers of access to medical services, including competing priorities to sustain life, strained relationships with medical providers, and an inability to pay for high health care costs. Through the expansion of Medicaid and the Community Health Center network, the ACA has the potential to increase access to medical services for homeless individuals. This report concludes by offering recommendations to ensure that homeless individuals benefit from health care reform through the ACA.text
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Connon, Aileen F. "Living on the city margins : homelessness, violence and stratagems of survival in an Australian metropolis." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/110532.
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Based on fieldwork in a Community Day Centre from January to August 1997, this study looks at the lives of twentieth century urban nomads in an Australian city. Focusing on homelessness and violence ; it characterizes the lifestyle ; behaviour patterns ; and, survival tactics and strategems of those studied. Draws on Bourdieu's concept of capital to explore the nomad economy in the city, and Weber's conceptualisation of ideal types to study the structure of the Community Day Centre. Analyses the Centre's dilemma of its philosophy of empowering its clients, while at the same time maintaining control.Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Anthropology, 1999
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Karim. "Leaving the bridge, passing the shelters : understanding homeless activism through the utilization of spaces within the Central Public Library and the IUPUI Library in Indianapolis." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5928.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)By definition, homelessness refers to general understanding of people without a home or a roof over their heads. As consequences of a number of factors, homelessness has become a serious problem especially in cities throughout the United States. Homeless people are usually most visible on the streets and in settings like shelters due to the fact that their presences and activities in public spaces are considered illegal or at least “unwanted” by city officials and by members of the public. In response to this issue, activists throughout the country have worked tiresly on behalf of homeless people to demand policy changes, an effort that resulted in the passage of the homeless bill of rights in three states, namely Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Illinois. As I discovered through my fieldwork, in Indiana, the homeless, themselves, are currently lobbying for passage of a similar measure. Locating my fieldwork on homelessness in Indianapolis in two sites, the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library (the Central Library) and the IUPUI Library, I examine the use of library buildings as alternative temporary shelters and spaces where the homeless can organize for political change. As an Indonesian ethnographer, I utilized an ethnographic approach, which helped me to reveal “Western values” and “American culture” as they play out in the context of homelessness. In this thesis, I show that there is a multi-sited configuration made up of issues, agents, institutions, and policy processes that converge in the context of the use of library buildings by the homeless. Finally, I conclude that public libraries and university libraries as well can play a more important role beyond their original functions by undertaking tangible actions, efforts, engagements, and interventions to act as allies to the homeless, who are among their most steadfast constituencies. By utilizing public university library facilities, the homeless are also finding their voices to call for justice, for better treatment, and for policies that can help ameliorate the hardship and disadvantages of homelessness.
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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.Social Work
M.A. (Social Work)
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Greig, Zachary. "Empowerment and engagement: case studies in Victoria, Australia of people who are homeless and volunteers who are working in services for the home-less." Thesis, 2020. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40453/.
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By drawing on community development values and principles as well as a social constructivist theoretical perspective, this study aims to understand how people who are homeless and the volunteers who serve them perceive their roles in terms of empowerment and disempowerment. Twenty-nine individuals have participated in this study: 18 had personal experiences of homelessness and 11 volunteered in the homelessness sector.
This study collects data through informal in-depth interviews, and it thematically examines a research diary. Research outcomes suggest that volunteers feel elements of perceived and actual power in their volunteerism. The study argues that such power stems from a belief that volunteering benefits the volunteer, people experiencing homelessness and broader society. These findings are consistent with existing literature and popular discourse; however, my research discovers that volunteers also express guilt and a reluctance to self-identify as a volunteer. This reticence, which accompanies volunteers’ scrutiny of the role’s characterisation as superior, runs contrary to how scholarship and popular discourse often understand volunteers.
Participants with first-hand experiences of homelessness characterise the role of the Australian ‘homeless person’ through notions of disempowerment and empowerment. They perceive disempowerment in the various ways they experience social disconnection: family rejection, a lack of companionship through friends and low-quality or precarious relationships within the home-less community. They also connect socially expected behaviours, rights, obligations, beliefs and norms to the disempowerment of welfare users. Nevertheless, through topics of public space, safety and protection, these participants express a sense of belonging and perceived empowerment.
Crucially, this study finds that 13 of the 18 ‘homeless’ participants had volunteered in the homelessness sector. This unanticipated observation expands the study’s analytical focus beyond an oppression-privilege binary in order to explore the nuances of participants’ complex social positions. As a result, the study tracks the ways by which volunteering challenges what it means to be ‘homeless’ in Australia and how it helps some ‘homeless people’ overcome aspects of the power inequalities encountered in mainstream society and welfare contexts. Overall, the study submits that volunteering signals the personal resources, abilities, skills, knowledge and potential that home-less people possess to improve their own lives and determine their own future.
Finally, the process of research challenges the student researcher’s expectations of what it means to perform as an effective scholar. The willingness and ability to listen - to offer kindness, sympathy and compassion – reconfigures how the student understands himself, others and good social work.
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Hill, Roland Bryant. "Missing in America : homelessness during the Reagan revolution." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10534.
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Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel. "Facing homeless people in the inner City of Tshwane : a missiological conversation with the Wesleyan tradition." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21712.
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This study was conducted within the pressing social conditions of human vulnerability manifested in a worsening situation of homelessness which forces homeless people into a deplorable life in the inner city of Tshwane. The study is not a detailed strategic plan to design support services that could improve the situation. It is rather about imagining alternative ways to journey with homeless people in their struggle to regain their humanity; hence the title: Facing homeless people in the inner city of Tshwane.
Chapter 2 analyses homelessness in the inner city of Tshwane, locating it within the bigger picture of the City of Tshwane. It takes into account the poverty that drives poor people to the margins, resulting in further human degradation. It exposes the adverse conditions that homeless people endure due to the absence of a social support net. The study obtained its information primarily from conversations with homeless people and with practitioners in church based organisations dedicated to addressing homelessness. Out of these conversations, five different causes of homelessness emerged, ranging from economic and political, to health, social and cultural factors.
Chapter 3 describes a number of church-based initiatives in the inner city of Tshwane that address the situation of homeless people, analysing their strengths and weaknesses in responding to the causes of homelessness as identified in Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 describes a number of church-based initiatives in the inner city of Tshwane that address the situation of homeless people, analysing their strengths and weaknesses in responding to the causes of homelessness as identified in Chapter 2.
Chapter 4 develops an urban theological vision in response to this situation, in the light of the notions of holiness and hospitality in the Wesleyan tradition. Contemplating this teaching, a framework was generated for the journey of the inner city church with homeless people in their efforts to regain humanity, by prioritising economic, political, health, social, and educational strategies. This chapter highlights the fact that John Wesley’s Methodist movement campaigned for the abolition of African slavery. It also journeyed with poor and vulnerable people like widows, orphans and prisoners, using Methodist “Societies” and “Classes” to integrate them into society.
Finally, Chapter 5 presents an integrative urban theological vision and a set of contextual strategies for the inner city church to journey with homeless people, following the horizons of human liberation developed in earlier chapters.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Xipu, Lawrence. "An exploratory study of the informal hiring sites for day labourers in Tshwane." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3216.
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The purpose of the study was to locate the informal hiring sites for day
labourers in Tshwane, to determine the approximate number of day labourers, to
describe the nature of socio-economic activities taking place at the sites, and to
make recommendations to address needs that have been identified. The research
approach and methodology was exploratory, descriptive, quantitative and
qualitative. In terms of the findings, 80 informal hiring sites were identified in
Tshwane with approximately 3032 day labourers standing at the sites. Case
studies were done on three sites and it was found that they were hazardous and
lacked basic facilities such as shelter and toilets. Employer-employee
interactions were also found to be haphazard and sometimes manipulative and
exploitative. It is recommended that intervention programmes should be
implemented which could include the provision of basic facilities, skills
development, job search assistance and access to comprehensive social services.Health Studies
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Louw, Humarita. "Men at the margins : day labourers at informal hiring sites in Tshwane." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3115.
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