Topics in Homelessness in America include: results of an Internet-based survey of assessment tools used with the homeless a critical examination of the assumptions of who becomes homeless—and why typologies of homelessness current trends ...
In 1987, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Public Law 100-77) became law, laterbecomingtheMcKinney-VentoHomelessAssistanceAct(CRSReport for Congress, 2005). This legislation drives much of the organizational Bruce W.
What can be done to help homeless people who live with mental illness and/or addiction problems? Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook answers all of these questions and more.
Focusing on the broad social issue of homelessness, the book's 19 essays offer in-depth examinations of policy-related issues by noted social workers, researchers, advocates, and other experts in the field.
This book examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge.
In rural areas, by contrast, we are still at the early stages of understanding how to identify and serve homeless people. Indeed, it is only in recent years that the presence of homeless people in rural America has been widely ...
This book examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge.
What can be done to help homeless people who live with mental illness and/or addiction problems? Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook answers all of these questions and more.