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Hetzler, Olivia. "Politics of homelessness hidden motivations for the criminalization of homelessness /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5918.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 30, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Ahajumobi, Edith N. "Homelessness in Calgary From the Perspectives of Those Experiencing Homelessness." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4413.
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Since the 1990s, homelessness has increased in Canada. The existing strategies of the government and public health service providers to manage the situation have had limited success. Researchers have noted the lack of including those experiencing homelessness to better understand and find a solution to homelessness. The purpose of this phenomenological study, driven by the social cognitive theory, was to understand homelessness from the perspectives of people who do not have homes. Data were collected from open-ended interviews with a purposeful sample of 15 individuals who are homeless. Summarizing and analyzing the interviews, several themes emerged after interview data were transcribed via hand coding and analyzed using cognitive data analysis. The prominent themes were: lack namely, money, home, privacy, and support; discrimination of all kinds; mental illness and addiction; the need for a review of housing policy that specifically addresses rent, mortgage qualification criteria and house tax, and to create awareness of government support systems and the services that they provide. Public health service providers and designated authorities can use the findings of this study to understand the phenomenon from the perspective of people who are experiencing homelessness, and in turn can use that understanding to influence improved homelessness reduction strategies that could improve the lives of those experiencing homelessness and their communities. Since homelessness is a public health issue, effectively bringing it under control could create a positive impact on the health and safety of the public.
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Morgan, William J. "Escaping from homelessness." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49320/.
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This thesis addresses the question of what helps the homeless to escape from homelessness. It comprises an empirical paper, a systematic literature review and a paper reflecting on the experience of conducting research with once-homeless men. The empirical paper details a qualitative exploration of the experience of escaping from homelessness for five once-homeless men. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Emergent themes were: life breaking in, decision to change, bad past and good present, better future. Life breaking in considered how life events and relationships 'broke into' cycles of homelessness and drug abuse participants were caught in. Their combined effect seemed to be to bring participants to a ‘turning point’, where they made a clear decision to change. Participants' relationship with their past, present and future seemed key in maintaining their escape. Escape from homelessness was discussed in terms of identity change, especially the need to repair a broken identity. The systematic literature review evaluates the evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic communities (TCs) for dually-diagnosed homeless. PsycINFO, Web of Science, ASSIA and PubMed were searched using terms relating to therapeutic community, homelessness and effectiveness. A total of 113 unique articles were retrieved and of these ten met inclusion criteria and were reviewed. The review found that TCs with adaptations for patients with mental illness, in addition to substance dependency, led to small improvements in substance abuse, mental health and housing outcomes. However, these effects were short-lived and few were still present after a year. In the reflective paper, the experience of conducting research, as a therapist, with once-homeless men was reflected on and the question of what therapists bring to research was considered. While therapists may struggle with some aspects of clinical research, they bring a range of skills and experience to this endeavour.
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Atkin, Heather. "Homelessness : a narrative account /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsa873.pdf.
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Levell, Vicky. "Factors implicated in homelessness." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494530.
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Coufopoulos, Anne-Marie. "Homelessness diet and health." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242156.
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Osbourne, Rachel. "Homelessness : a contextual approach." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532397.
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Particular characteristics are frequently assigned to homeless people by virtue of the fact they are labelled as 'the homeless'. There are numerous functions that such terms and definitions fulfil. In general, they serve to promote perceptions of people with particular characteristics as different, distinct and distanced from others in society. In addition they may obscure structural inequalities, maintain and reinforce the interests of dominant groups in society. These definitions do not develop in a vacuum, they are constructed throughout centuries within a social system. The aim of this research was to explore how people make sense of their experience of homelessness in the context of the constructions operating within the social realm. It was suggested that these constructions have contributed to a representation of homeless people in individualistic and pathological terms and thus had a negative impact on this population. An analysis of some of the discourses used by members of this population suggested that this was indeed the case; however, the analysis also indicated that people often refused the 'helpless and hopeless' position associated with being 'homeless'. There was evidence that they sought avenues of empowerment. Implications of this alternative discourse regarding 'homelessness' in terms of current service provision for this population were identified. In addition, it was argued that a more contextualised approach will be necessary within clinical practice and research in order to move towards developing a more meaningful and useful way of conceptualising the experiences of people who are homeless. The role of Psychology was discussed.
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Noe, Allison. "Homelessness and Police Contact." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28502.
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Research regarding the homeless and their interactions with law enforcement is sparse. The current study examines the perceptions homeless men and women have of police officers in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Data for this study was collected via fifty-one semi-structured interviews with guests at three homeless shelters in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Roughly half of those interviewed have a positive opinion of police officers. The results demonstrate that the perceptions of police officers held by those interviewed is based largely on the amount of respect that they receive. If individuals feel they are respected by police officers, their perception is generally more positive. The results also show several of problems expressed by respondents in regards to how they view the homeless are treated by police. A number of policy implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Crawford, H., and Jean Croce Hemphill. "Homelessness, Discharge, and CHAMP." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7576.
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Harris, Jacob. "Cultural formulations for homelessness." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27667.
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Wasserman, Jason Adam. "American refugees an ethnographic study of the street homeless /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/wasserman.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007.Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 23, 2009). Additional advisors: Kenneth L. Wilson, Jeffrey Hall, Christopher Taylor, Max Michael. Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284).
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Beckett, Helen Louise. "An ethnography of youth homelessness." Online version, 2004. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/32759.
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Gould, Thomas E. Herman Robert D. "Homelessness, families and structural effects." Diss., UMK access, 2006.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration and the School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006."A dissertation in public affairs and administration and urban leadership and policy studies in education." Advisor: Robert D. Herman. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-107). Online version of the print edition.
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Finkel, Brian W. "An investigation of urban homelessness." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17104.
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Forty, Louise. "Developing a homelessness prediction model." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1307.
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The purpose of this research was to produce a model to predict levels of homelessness within a local authority area. The research considered data on a wide range of issues embedded in theory and supported by the literature as being common precedents to homelessness. Areas of investigation included housing, migration, poverty, deinstitutionalisation, ethnicity, poor health, drug abuse, sex and age, relationship breakdown as well as general variables profiling the area. Data was compared both to the numbers of homeless decisions made within a local authority area as well as the numbers of those decisions that resulted in the full homeless duty being accepted. Multiple regression techniques and factor analysis were used to determine the issues most strongly correlated with levels of homeless decisions and therefore useful for the production of a prediction model. Models were produced for different types of council (e. g. borough councils, district councils, city councils etc) using different variables. A number of independent variables were identified as being reliable predictors for numbers of homeless decisions for two to three years into the future. These variables were the number of people experiencing limiting long-term illness; the number of people separated but not divorced; the number of under 18 conceptions; the number of people in receipt of income based job seekers allowance and the number of people of mixed race. In addition to these individual issues, a 'social disadvantage factor' combining all of these issues generally proved to be the most accurate and reliable variable for use in a regression model for predicting numbers of homeless decisions. Previous research in this area has been predominantly qualitative in nature. This study provides a new step towards a useable quantitative tool for prediction purposes. The models provide a level of objectivity to prediction and therefore have important implications for local government policy.
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Beckett, H. L. "An ethnography of youth homelessness." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401793.
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Crane, Maureen. "Pathways to later life homelessness." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15081/.
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The aim of this doctoral thesis is to increase the understanding of the causes of homelessness in later life, by identifying how antecedents, states and events interact and both trigger and contribute to homelessness, and the processes and pathways involved in the transition to homelessness. Using present theories, concepts and empirical evidence as a foundation, the thesis is largely informed by an intensive ethnographic field study which lasted for 15 months and was carried out in London, Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester. It involved 225 respondents over the age of 55 years, the majority of whom were homeless when interviewed. Through depth interviewing and the compilation of partial life histories, it was possible to collect objective information which enabled some quantitative comparisons and statistical analysis, and qualitative data which enabled analyses using detailed case study reports. A descriptive profile of the characteristics of the respondents and their histories of homelessness identifies the distinctive features of this group. Although some had been homeless since early adulthood and were in a state of chronic homelessness, others had experienced homelessness for the first time in old age. Four commonly-reported situations preceding homelessness are identified, and these are examined in depth and provide the core of the qualitative analyses. These are mobile work histories, bereavement, the breakdown of intimate relationships, and mental illness. The thesis demonstrates that the origins of homelessness are complex, and deepseated, they are intricately related to psychological and sociological factors, and that homelessness extends far beyond a lack of housing. By increasing the knowledge of the aetiology of homelessness, the thesis also makes a contribution to the understanding of the problems and needs of older homeless people and is thus informative to welfare policy and practice.
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Sifuentes, Ann Marie. "Veteran Homelessness: Protecting our Protectors." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1525338811510693.
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Collins, Martha Anne. "Homelessness in Abraham Cahan's Fiction." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625820.
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Bufacchi, Laura <1992>. "Homelessness e mascolinità in Giappone." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17138.
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Il Giappone è globalmente considerato come un modello di prosperità, modernità e come un “esempio di capitalismo di successo”. Anche due decenni dopo lo scoppio della “bolla economica”, il Giappone risulta essere il terzo paese economicamente più forte al mondo. Grazie alla realizzazione di progressi significativi nell’ultima metà del secolo scorso, le principali città del Giappone hanno registrato un rapido sviluppo, una crescita inimmaginabile e un’impressionante innovazione tecnologica. Come dimostrato dal coefficiente di Gini dello 0,34 , la società gode generalmente di elevati standard di vita e di un alto comfort personale. Tuttavia, il Giappone è anche uno dei paesi dell’OCSE con il più alto livello di povertà (circa il 15,7%) ed è afflitto dal fenomeno dell’homelessness.
Da un punto di vista sociale, i senzatetto risultano essere una delle principali preoccupazioni. L’articolo 25 della costituzione giapponese cita: “Tutte le persone avranno il diritto ad un decoroso livello di vita, salutare e colta. In tutti gli ambiti della vita, lo Stato dovrà impegnarsi per promuovere ed estendere il benessere sociale, la sicurezza e la salute pubblica”. In questo caso, la questione dei senzatetto acquisisce molta importanza e significato. Uno stato non trova il successo attraverso l’isolamento e l’ignoranza dei problemi che affliggono la società: esso deve invece riconoscerli e cercare di migliorare i loro bisogni. La notevole crescita di questo fenomeno, avvenuta principalmente durante il decennio perduto del periodo Heisei, ha dunque fatto nascere una diffusa preoccupazione tra i cittadini privati, i politici e i sociologi, portando ad un aumento degli studi e delle ricerche riguardanti il fenomeno dei senzatetto, e delle misure già messe in atto in altre economie avanzate per poter arginare il problema.
Una caratteristica che si evince dai sondaggi effettuati dal Governo stesso sull’homelessness in Giappone è il forte squilibrio tra il numero dei senzatetto di sesso femminile e quello dei senzatetto di sesso maschile. Il 98,5%, infatti, è costituito da uomini di mezza età e operai. Secondo i dati e gli studi messi a disposizione dall’OCSE, a livello globale il fenomeno homelessness colpisce principalmente gli uomini single, ma nessuno stato ha una discrepanza di genere simile a quella del Giappone. Uno studio condotto negli Stati Uniti indica come gli uomini normalmente non cercano assistenza per difficoltà fisiche o psicologiche e che questo loro comportamento si ripete anche tra i senzatetto. Ciò può essere, in parte, dovuto al concetto di mascolinità e ai ruoli di genere che influenzano consciamente e inconsciamente gli uomini americani. Agli uomini viene infatti insegnato di essere autosufficienti e di risolvere i problemi da soli piuttosto che sopportare la vergogna percepita nel dover chiedere aiuto. Seguendo il ragionamento portato avanti da questo studio si può ipotizzare che i senzatetto in Giappone siano per la maggior parte di sesso maschile a causa di un’ideologia di genere insita nella loro cultura.
Per poter confermare questa teoria questa tesi si concentrerà in primo luogo sul welfare system (rete di sostegno per chi viene considerato “non autosufficiente”), l’ideologia di genere dominante (la quale, come verrà dimostrato più avanti, influenza la vita di tutti i giorni, la politica e il welfare stesso) e le manovre politiche attuate in merito.
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Gaboardi, Marta. "Working with people experiencing homelessness." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424740.
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This thesis starts with an analysis of attempts to define and solve the homelessness, with a focus on service delivery in Europe and the widespread transition from the Traditional Services (TS) to the Housing First model (HF) that is changing providers’ work. Few studies are focused on social providers’ prospective and factors affecting their work and there are not standardized instruments to analyze their working context.
Then, Study 1 aimed to understand how social providers, working in HF or TS, describe the goals and the principles of their services, considering the importance of belief system in the implementation of a new working model, such as HF. The data were collected through 29 focus group discussions involving 121 providers in eight European countries. Regardless of the kind of service they worked in, providers indicated that their main goal was to support clients with integration, basic needs (food, shower, health), housing requirements, and well-being.
Results of the Study 1 showed that providers in both types of services had the goal of clients’ integration. Given the unclear meaning of the construct in the literature about it, Study 2 aimed to explore the feelings associated with ‘integration’ from the point of view of people experiencing homelessness. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 26 people in Italian homeless services. Feelings clustered in three spheres: the intrapersonal sphere refers to feelings that exist within a person, such as dignity and freedom; the interpersonal sphere includes feelings that emerge from interactions with other people, such as respect; and the societal sphere involves the sense of usefulness and responsibility.
Moreover, it seems relevant to analyze the working context of the providers to facilitate the achievement of service’s goals. For this reason, Study 3 aimed to explore which services’ characteristics affect the work of social providers by examining differences between workers in HF and TS teams in a cross-national study. Data were collected through Photovoice projects with social providers. Overall, 17 Photovoice projects were conducted, involving 81 participants in eight European countries. The results showed factors influencing providers’ work at three levels: systemic (e.g.: institutional attitude, structural features); organizational (e.g. support among colleagues, vision); individual (e.g.: clients’ problems, balance in relationships with clients). Results for TS and HF providers were similar, however TS providers identified more obtacles.
Finally, in order to compare and measure strengths and weaknesses of homeless services, Study 4 aimed to develop a questionnaire (the SErvice PROviders’ Questionnaire – SE-PRO Q) identifying organizations’ profiles. The questionnaire was created basing on the qualitative results of photovoice projects (Study 3) and it was combined with providers’ stress and well-being dimensions (burnout and work engagement). SE-PRO Q was administered to 569 social providers in 8 European countries. Through a Confirmatory Factor Analysis, SE PRO Q 24 version resulted; showing promising fit indexes and correlations to providers’ burn-out and work engagement.
Overall, this thesis had the opportunity to ‘fill in’ missing pieces in our knowledge on the ecology of homelessness with a cross-national prospective and with an ecological approach. Implications of the results are discussed as suggestions to promote services facilitating work of social providers and integration of people experiencing homelessness.Il presente elaborato inizia con un’analisi dei tentativi di definire e risolvere il fenomeno delle persone che vivono la condizione di senza dimora, con particolare attenzione all'erogazione dei servizi in Europa e alla diffusa transizione dal modello dei Servizi Tradizionali (TS) al modello Housing First (HF) che sta cambiando il modo di lavorare degli operatori. Pochi studi sono focalizzati sull’analisi del punto di vista di chi lavora con questo target e sui fattori che influenzano il loro lavoro e non ci sono strumenti standardizzati per analizzare il loro contesto lavorativo. Per questo, lo Studio 1 ha cercato di capire come i professionisti, che lavorano in HF o TS, descrivono gli obiettivi e i principi dei loro servizi, considerando l'importanza del sistema di credenze nell'implementazione di un nuovo modello di lavoro, come l'HF. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso 29 focus group che hanno coinvolto 121 operatori sociali in otto Paesi Europei. Indipendentemente dal tipo di servizio in cui lavoravano, gli operatori hanno indicato che il loro obiettivo principale era quello di aiutare i beneficiari a integrarsi, soddisfacendo i bisogni di base (cibo, doccia, salute), le esigenze abitative e il benessere generale. I risultati dello Studio 1 hanno dimostrato che i professionisti di entrambi i tipi di servizi hanno l'obiettivo di integrare i beneficiari. Dato il significato poco chiaro del costrutto nella letteratura, lo Studio 2 ha cercato di esplorare i sentimenti associate all' ‘integrazione’ dal punto di vista delle persone senza dimora. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso interviste semi-strutturate con 26 persone nei servizi italiani per persone senza dimora. I sentimenti emersi sono stati raggruppati in tre sfere: la sfera intrapersonale, che si riferisce a sentimenti che esistono all’interno di una persona, come la dignità e la libertà; la sfera interpersonale, che include sentimenti che emergono dalle interazioni con altre persone, come il rispetto; e la sfera sociale, che coinvolge il senso di utilità e di responsabilità. Inoltre, sembra rilevante analizzare il contesto lavorativo dei professionisti dei servizi per facilitare il raggiungimento degli obiettivi del servizio. Per questo motivo, lo Studio 3 mirava ad esplorare quali caratteristiche dei servizi influenzano il lavoro degli operatori dei servizi, esaminando le differenze tra i lavoratori dei team HF e TS in uno studio transnazionale. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso progetti di Photovoice con gli operatori. Complessivamente sono stati realizzati 17 progetti di Photovoice, che hanno coinvolto 81 partecipanti in otto Paesi Europei. I risultati hanno mostrato fattori che influenzano il lavoro dei fornitori a tre livelli: sistemico (es.: atteggiamento istituzionale, caratteristiche strutturali); organizzativo (es. supporto tra colleghi, vision condivisa); individuale (es. problemi dei beneficiari, equilibrio nelle relazioni con i beneficiari). I risultati per i team di TS e HF erano simili, ma i team di TS hanno identificato un maggior numero di ostacoli. Infine, al fine di confrontare e misurare i punti di forza e di debolezza dei servizi per persone senza dimora, lo Studio 4 mirava a sviluppare un questionario (SErvice PROviders' Questionnaire - SE-PRO Q) per identificare i profili delle organizzazioni. Il questionario è stato creato sulla base dei risultati qualitativi dei progetti di Photovoice (Studio 3) ed è stato combinato con l’analisi delle dimensioni di stress e benessere dei professionisti (burnout e impegno lavorativo). Il SE-PRO Q è stato somministrato a 569 operatori sociali in otto Paesi Europei. Attraverso un’ Analisi Fattoriale Confermativa è emersa la versione SE PRO Q 24, che mostra indici psicometrici promettenti e correlazioni al burnout e al coinvolgimento lavorativo dei professionisti. Nel complesso, questa tesi ha avuto l’opportunità di “riempire” pezzi mancanti nella letteratura riguardante i servizi per persone senza dimora, con una prospettiva transnazionale e con un approccio ecologico. Le implicazioni dei risultati sono discusse come suggerimenti per promuovere servizi che facilitino il lavoro dei professionisti dei servizi sociali e l’integrazione delle persone che vivono la condizione di senza dimora.
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Odle, Andrew W. "Homelessness : a Bonhoefferian practical theology of sociality with special reference to homelessness in the United States and the response of Dennis Culhane and the National Alliance to End Homelessness' "Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness "." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=58973.
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MacCannell, Jason Francis. "Homelessness in Sacramento : a landscape geography /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Hemphill, Jean Croce. "Hopelessness and Homelessness: A Woman's Perspective." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1994. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7595.
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BARRON, DORMELLA M. "TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: HOW IT AFFECTS HOMELESSNESS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085504319.
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Cader, Roshan. "V.S. Naipaul : homelessness and exiled identity." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1446.
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Barron, Dormella. "Transitional housing how it affects homelessness /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1085504319.
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Henien, Hany Attia Fam. "Homelessness as perceived by the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1089.
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Bradley, Caroline. "Understanding and supporting positive parenting during homelessness." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2016. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/15002/.
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This study aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a peer-led parenting intervention for parents living in London in temporary accommodation, seeking help with managing behavioural difficulties of a child (aged 2–11). A structured, group-based intervention (‘Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities- Temporary Accommodation’) was delivered by peer facilitators to N=15 parents across three group cohorts. Twelve parents (80%) completed the group programme at first attempt; one parent completed on their second attempt after re-joining in a different cohort. A mixed-method formative evaluation was used. The intervention’s feasibility was assessed in terms of attendance and completion rates (% parents completing ≥6 sessions); acceptability was assessed by satisfaction measure and qualitative participant interviews; and potential for impact was assessed by parent-reported standardised measures of child behaviour, parenting behaviour, parental wellbeing, parenting stress and social support. Reductions in child behavioural difficulties and improved parenting knowledge and practices were reported on standardised measures. Improved parental outcomes were described in qualitative interviews. Participants were highly satisfied with the intervention. The study concluded that peer-led parenting groups are feasible and potentially effective interventions for parents living in temporary accommodation. These findings warrant further testing under controlled conditions.
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Speak, Suzanne. "Alternative understandings of homelessness in developing countries." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.576636.
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This thesis explores urban homelessness in developing countries in a context of urban and economic policy which increasingly distances itself from the poor and marginalises them from the urban arena. Although the work focuses on the topic of homelessness, it raise and answer broader questions about the role of the values inherent in politics, neo-liberal ideology, international development and a range of governmental and non-governmental institutions in causing and conditioning urban homelessness in developing countries. The work grows from an original study of homelessness in nine developing countries, funded by DfID (henceforth this will be referred to as the DfID study) and further subsequent work over ten years. The DfID study was not predicated upon any specific definition or theories of homelessness. Rather, it sought to explore a range of definitions, causes, experiences and interventions around homelessness from a grounded theory approach. From the outset, the work accepted that a range of housing and shelter / shelterlessness situations might constitute homelessness in different contexts. Importantly, the study did not intend to compare homelessness in developing countries with that in industrialised countries. To do so would have been irrelevant as the institutional contexts are so radically different. The thesis argues that we need to find ways to re-conceptualise the phenomenon of homelessness if we are to try to reduce and prevent it. Here I present a body of work which forms a base from which to undertake that re-conceptualisation. The purpose of this statement is to draws out several conceptual themes which have grown out of the research. The publications were written as individual outputs and were not originally linked by any overriding theoretical farming. Thus, the idea of reconceptualising homelessness is not necessarily directly expressed in the submitted works. Therefore, this statement also severs to present the chronology of ideas - the 'journey' I undertook - and the way in which the publications act as a series of 'stepping stones' in the conceptualising process. The statement also indicates how the ideas evolved and where their origins can be found in the publications.
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Ravenhill, Megan Honor. "The culture of homelessness : an ethnographic study." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2665/.
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The thesis argues that homelessness is complex and synergical in nature. It discusses the life events and processes that often trigger, protect against and predict the likelihood of someone becoming homeless (and/or roofless). It argues, that people's routes into homelessness are complex, multiple and interlinked and are the result of biographical, structural and behavioural factors. This complexity increases with the age of the individual and the duration of their rooflessness. The thesis explores the homeless culture as a counter-culture created through people being pushed out of mainstream society. It argues, that what happened to people in the past, created the nature of the homeless culture. Furthermore it is argued that any serious attempt at resettling long-term rough sleepers needs to consider what it is that the homeless culture offers and whether or how this can be replicated within housed society. The thesis goes on to demonstrate that there are immense, complex, multi-dimensional difficulties to be faced by those exiting rooflessness. These difficulties arise from complex structural, behavioural and emotional factors that are inextricably entwined within people's lives and, at times, negate positive influences or exacerbate existing problems. It is argued that the current system inadvertently actively discourages and/or prevents people from leaving homelessness and fully re-integrating back into housed society. Radical changes are needed in the way we perceive and tackle rooflessness. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the types of policies and interventions that could prevent rooflessness from occurring or would actively promote meaningful reintegration back into housed society.
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Louw, Christopher. "Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28017.
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This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, highlighting the challenges faced and survival strategies implemented by homeless individuals. The response focuses in part to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by creating a safe zone in which the activities of the home can be carried out. Furthermore, the intent is to engage with the homeless population across a range of thresholds, allowing them the autonomy to filter into a newly facilitated network that works with existing infrastructure to guide individuals on a journey off the street. The Dissertation culminates in a speculative design project near the fringe of Cape Town's CBD. The project deals with an undeveloped parcel of land, as well as the addition to and alterations of an existing Salvation Army building.
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Hurwitz, Melissa. "Dispossessed Women| Female Homelessness in Romantic Literature." Thesis, Fordham University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281988.
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“Dispossessed Women” examines the status of homeless women in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature, with special attention to both the cultural assumptions and aesthetic power that accrued to these figures. Across the Romantic era, vagrant women were ubiquitous not only in poetry, children’s fiction, novels, and non-fiction, but also on the streets of towns and cities as their population outnumbered that of vagrant males. Homeless women became the focus of debates over how to overhaul the nation’s Poor Laws, how to police the unhoused, and what the rising middle class owed the destitute in a rapidly industrializing Britain. Writers in the Romantic period began to treat these characters with increasing realism, rather than sentimentalism or satire. This dissertation tracks this understudied story through the writing of Mary Robinson, Maria Edgeworth, Hannah More, Robert Southey, and William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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Pemberton, Charlie Samuel Christie. "Charity, homelessness, and the doctrine of creation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/charity-homelessness-and-the-doctrine-of-creation(a0e80de6-557b-4f48-8f6b-8837beff4971).html.
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This thesis explores Gustavo Gutiérrez‟s and John Milbank‟s articulations of the doctrine of creation, with a view to developing a criterion that can be used to inform our understanding and evaluation of Christian charities that address homelessness and operate in contemporary British civil society. Milbank and Gutiérrez‟s works both ask questions of the peace or life that can be instituted through charitable practices. They also develop, from the doctrine of creation, their own theological accounts of social and political orders, normative anthropologies, and accounts of the interpersonal. For both Milbank and Gutiérrez, the doctrine of creation maintains a paradox: the internality and externality of the created world in relation to God. Part One of this thesis explores these respective accounts of charity and creation, noting the strengths and limitations of each position. Part One ends with a qualified endorsement of Gutiérrez‟s theology and defends the utility of the criterion he deploys in his work to judge the task of theology and praxis of the church: integral liberation. The second part of this thesis progresses in three steps. First, I put forward a theological methodology which is attentive to the logic of theo-political language and our current neoliberal socio-political order. I argue that it is prudent to think of political theology as a counter-hegemonic discourse, and in dialogue with Ernesto Laclau and Chantel Mouffe, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and Gutiérrez, I explore and endorse political theology as spiral in character. I go on to extend Laclau and Mouffe‟s analysis of neoliberalism by developing and defending the hypothesis: 'charities are dual'. By engaging with the work of Frank Prochaska, this section argues that charities are both religious and political, as well as being both internal and external to the state apparatus. Furthermore, I contend that charities constitute and ameliorate the social exclusion attributed to homelessness, and that selfless giving, under the current circumstances, is internal to a process of volunteer self-making. By attending to the dualities of homelessness charities, this part of the thesis sets charities in their current context and proposes an elective affinity between current charitable practices and the hegemony of neoliberalism. At the end of the thesis, I return to the doctrine of creation and ask how attention to this doctrinal locus can help us to move homelessness charities beyond their dependence on the existence of homeless people, and their embeddedness in our current neoliberal arrangement. I argue that charities, and civil society more broadly, have an important role to play in envisioning and establishing a theo-politics of common life. To do so, I contend that we need to articulate a robust account of the role of the state, must defend human rights, nurture egalitarian and non-hierarchical charitable practices, be attentive to what the homeless can teach charities and volunteers about our current order, and reform aspects of charitable law. In each of these cases, I defend a paradoxical politics of integral liberation. In summary, this thesis aims to make an original contribution to the growing body of literature that explores homelessness and theology by coordinating the paradox of creation, the duality of charity, and the double truths of neoliberalism.
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Taylor, John Mitchell 1963. "(Fill in blank) Homelessness and professional anthropology." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291876.
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This paper reconsiders the relation between what is studied, here homelessness, and the way of study, here anthropology. We will arrive at the notion of moral regulation which is useful in thoughts of the complex implications of otherwise seemingly disparate phenomena: homelessness and anthropology. Along the way we touch on order and morality. It is suggested that the professionalization of anthropology might be an active detriment to cogent anthropological analysis.
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Barfield, Cynthia. "Administrators' Perspectives and Strategies Regarding Student Homelessness." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5975.
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Student homelessness presents challenges and opportunities for public school administrators. The primary purpose of this study was to explore whether the effects of child homelessness caused students to drop out of school and engage in criminal activity before the age of 18 or if they would further their education beyond high school. A quantitative method with a cross-sectional design was used to examine the topic, and a self-administered survey, adapted from Dillman's design, was employed for data collection. The sample included 150 participants who were teachers and principals in a school district in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. An ordinary least squares (OLS) regression was used for analyzing participant responses and to examine gender, race, age, years teaching, grade teaching, teacher concerns, witnessed behavior, policies, and training. Key results of this study are significant for social change because they provide evidence for policy officials to redevelop ways to assist teachers of homeless students.
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Rupeka, Laura M. "Like Eve, Wanting Beets Instead of Apples." Connect to online version at OhioLINK ETD Connect to online version at Digital.Maag, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1989/4793.
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Farrell, Susan Jane. "An examination of homelessness from a stress perspective." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9252.
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Previously, models of homelessness have not described how persons dealt with the stressful experience of being homeless. This study examined the adequacy of a transient stress model, developed by the integration of Moos and Schaefer's (1993) Integrated Framework of Stress and Coping and Dohrenwend's (1978) Social Stress Model, to understand the experiences of persons who are homeless. The model illustrates what factors contribute to a person's well-being in the context of experiencing the crisis of being homeless. Specifically, personal factors (personality characteristics, sex, past experiences of homelessness, personal empowerment and approach-style and avoidance-style coping responses) and environmental factors (perceived social support and social network size) were examined in terms of their association with the occurrence of stressful life events and the appraisal of, and response to, the stress associated with being homeless. Stress appraisal and stress response were then used to predict levels of psychopathology and subjective well-being. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 200 persons who used emergency shelters and with a convenience sample of 30 persons who used community services but slept elsewhere. The final model demonstrated that personal and environmental factors played a role in the occurrence of stressful life events and stress response, but that only personal empowerment and stress response were directly associated with levels of well-being and psychopathology. The addition of qualitative responses provided more information about individuals' processes of coping with being homeless, as explained in their own words. Moreover, it allowed for the examination of differences between groups, defined by sex and age in their reporting of stressful life events, coping responses, social support, personal empowerment and stress appraisal. Unlike previous models of homelessness, this model demonstrated the importance of personal and environmental factors in the occurrence of stressful life events and the subsequent stress reaction and reports of well-being and psychopathology.
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Epp, Heather Lynn. "Hard times, the experiences of homelessness and pregnancy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62929.pdf.
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Velli, Linda Joan. "Young people's transition into and out of homelessness /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19972.pdf.
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Butchinsky, Chantal. "An anthropological study of repeated homelessness in Oxford." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404751.
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Doyle, Lisa. "A woman's space? : meanings of home and homelessness." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250702.
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Hewitt, Jennifer. "Young people, home and homelessness : a narrative exploration." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2014. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/71338/.
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This thesis explores the experiences of homeless young people with a particular focus on the process of making the journey out of homelessness. It consists of a literature review, a research paper and a critical appraisal. The literature review comprises a narrative approach exploring the meaning of ‘home’ in relation to the lives of homeless young people. It explores, synthesises and critically appraises a range of inter-disciplinary research to consider the physical, psychological and social dimensions to this concept. The review then considers the clinical implications of these ideas for supporting homeless young people to regain a sense of ‘home’ in their lives. The research paper explores the experiences of seven young people making the journey out of homelessness. The research, developed in collaboration with a research advisory group of young people, adopted a narrative methodology to explore participants’ stories. The findings are presented as a ‘shared story’ containing five chapters. The findings illustrate the psychological and social mediators which impact on young people’s experiences of navigating the journey out of homelessness. The contributions of these narratives are discussed in relation to guiding interventions to address the psychological wellbeing of homeless young people. Finally, the critical appraisal presents my reflections on the research journey and is divided into five chapters. The first chapter details my hopes and motivations when embarking on the research project. The second chapter reflects upon the process of how I conceptualised and planned the project, including the challenges I faced in attempting to do this this. The third chapter provides an account of my experience of undertaking the research project. Finally, the fourth chapter summarises my reflections about the future dissemination of the research and how my experiences conducting this research have impacted on my personal and professional development.
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Washington, Terran Lee. "Homelessness: An Auto-Ethnographic Study and Visual Reflection." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594646913401077.
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Eissmann, Araya Ignacio. "Pathways to Homelessness of Homeless Women in Chile:." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109032.
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Thesis advisor: Shanta PandeyThesis advisor: Paulette Landon
Homeless women in Chile live in high-risk situations; however, little research exists about how they face homelessness. This dissertation helps address this information gap through the inquiry into the question about what are the pathways to homelessness of homeless women in Chile? For this, a mixed-method research design has been used. The quantitative data were obtained from the Annex Questionnaire for homeless people of the Social Registry of Household, Government of Chile, updated to March 31, 2019, while the Qualitative information was obtained by conducting in-depth interviews with 4 homeless women and professionals who have worked with them in the context of their participation in social programs. The findings showed three main results: (1) The paths to homelessness for women in Chile begins with residential instability and individual adjustment to deal with it. (2) Residential instability transforms into homelessness through an extended accumulation of disadvantages and loss of significant resources and social networks. (3) Women's homelessness, even though it may become permanent or chronic, is cyclical with many entries and exits within a permanent context of residential instability
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work
Discipline: Social Work
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Navarrete-Vivero, Veronica. "Ethnically Mixed Individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2179/.
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Studies addressing racial/ethnic identity development have often overlooked the developmental cultural context. The impact of growing up with contradictory cultures has not been well explored. Immersion in multiple cultures may produce mixed patterns of strengths deficits. This study reviews the literature's currently inconsistent usage of the terms race, ethnicity, and culture; introduces the concept and theoretical framework of Cultural Homelessness; relates CH to multicultural integration; and develops two study-specific measures (included) to examine the construct validity of CH. The samples (N = 448, 67% women) racial, ethnic, and cultural mixture was coded back three generations using complex coding criteria. Empirical findings supported the CH-specific pattern of cognitive and social strengths with emotional difficulties: social adaptability and cross-cultural competence but also low self-esteem and shame regarding diff
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McNaughton, Carol Corinne. "Understanding transitions through homelessness in a risk society." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/969/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Science, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Hill, Ronald Bryant. "Missing in America homelessness during the Reagan revolution /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034548.
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Werman, Sarah. "Newspaper Representations of Homelessness: A Temporal Comparative Analysis." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7536.
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This research focuses on the ways in which homelessness is discussed in two newspapers in a major city in the intermountain United States. I analyzed newspaper articles with the goal of understanding public discourse in two ideologically distinct newspaper venues. I examined the news media portrayal of the homeless in 752 articles in these two newspapers during two distinct six-month time periods, one during which the city was nationally recognized as a major advocate for “Housing First,” or “solving homelessness,” and a more recent period during which urban gentrification has challenged the location of homeless services. Specifically, I addressed the he primary informants drawn upon by the newspapers, and the potential “missing voices” in the media discussion. My research looks at homelessness in these papers both over time and across papers.
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Webreck, Amanda Eun Jee. "Intake Case Managers' Perspectives on Rural Veteran Homelessness." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6702.
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Homeless research has focused on the service-directed approach, but few qualitative studies have focused on the critical and sensitive nature of the intake process. Staff in rural and remote communities struggle to refer services and mainstream resources to homeless veterans. The purpose of this case study was to explore case managers' perspectives on intake procedures in rural Pennsylvania communities. Lewin's force field analysis was used as a theoretical basis to examine the rationale for behaviors and forces that impact an individual's state. Six case managers and 1 supervisor were selected for face-to-face interviews based on their experience, job duties, and length of time involved in homeless services. The themes that emerged from coding analysis included coordinated entry, paperwork length and redundancy, geographical barriers including transportation and employment services, identification and outreach, and case management staff. Findings may be used to improve assessment techniques and critical time intervention strategies to reduce the length of homelessness for rural veterans.