Homelessness:
Publications and Clearinghouses
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Blueprint
for Change
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) developed
Blueprint for Change to disseminate state-of-the-art information about
ending homelessness for people who have serious mental illnesses, including
those with co-occurring substance use disorders. It offers practical advice
for how to plan, organize, and sustain a comprehensive, integrated system
of care designed to end homelessness for people with serious mental illnesses
and/or co-occurring substance use disorders.
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Homelessness:
Programs and the People They Serve, Summary
This report presents results from a National Survey of Homeless Assistance
Providers and Homeless Persons and is the most comprehensive data yet released
on the network of providers that assist homeless persons and the characteristics
of their clients have been published by the Federal Interagency Council on
the Homeless. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was
one of the 12 agencies that sponsored this important work. The data demonstrate
that homeless persons have high levels of poverty, illness and disabilities.
They typically do not have health insurance. The programs of HHS, whether
targeted to the homeless condition or designed to assist all Americans in
need, are critical in addressing these circumstances. See also the full
Technical
Report. Note: The Urban Institute has used these survey results
to generate prevalence estimates for homelessness. These are available in
America's Homeless
II, Population and Services, February 1, 2000.
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Core Performance Indicators
for Homeless-Serving Programs Administered by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. An
Executive
Summary is also available.
This report, by John Bartko of Capital Research Corporation and Burt Barnow
of Johns Hopkins University, explores the feasibility of developing a core
set of performance measures across four HHS programs that focus on service
delivery to homeless persons. The report also explores the extent to which
mainstream service-delivery programs supported by HHS, i.e., those not
specifically targeted to homelessness, could generate performance measures
on the extent to which homeless persons are served and with what effect.
September 2003. Full report
in PDF format.
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1996 National Survey
of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based
and Secular Non-Profit Programs
This study examines data from NSHAPC to determine more thoroughly the role
that faith-based programs play in the larger context of homeless assistance.
The study has an explicit focus on comparing homeless assistance programs
administered by faith-based versus secular non-profit service agencies. It
provides a basic but comprehensive picture of the numbers and characteristics
of the two types of homeless assistance programs.
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Practical Lessons: The 1998 National
Symposium on Homelessness and Research
This symposium was jointly sponsored with HUD and provides 13 papers that
summarize more than a decade of research on homelessness.
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