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• in Technorati Women
  Tech Savvy Homeless Use the Web to Self-Advocate
  People experiencing homelessness use blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to find resources, get help, and improve their lives
  by odanu / on Jun 29, 2011
• in Family
  Hard Economic Times Affects Good Parenting Skills
  How Parents Can Hold Their Children Back
  by / on Jun 22, 2011
• in Family
  Eight Reasons America is Losing the War on Poverty
  Eight Simple Ways to Lift Children out of Poverty
  by / on Jun 21, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “homelessness”

 

• Carolynn

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Tweet CAUTION: Some content may be offensive. Our hope is you’ll get mad enough to do something. The reason we post that disclaimer is for stories like this. Carolynn’s is not an easy story to watch. But it’s an important story that must be shared. Carolynn is homeless living on the mean streets for Detroit. She ...
  22 hours ago

• Pottstown Encouraged Feb. 9 To ‘Rethink Homelessness’

  
  The Pottstown Post — Authority: 118
  A community group will sponsor a forum about homelessness in greater Pottstown and how to address it.
  2 days ago

• The Learning Network Blog: From Homelessness to Sudden Science Celebrity

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  MUSSEL POWER Samantha Garvey with her teacher Rebecca Grella. Ms. Garvey, 18, a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, is newly homeless.
  5 days ago

• FF-01 – City Definition of Affordable Housing (2012)

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  For Calgary City Council, “affordable housing adequately suits the needs of low- and moderate- income households at costs below those generally found in the Calgary market. It may take a number of forms that exist along a continuum” including various rental options through to entry-level home ownership. Affordable ...
  5 days ago

• Youth on the Street and Youth Involved with Child Welfare: Maltreatment, Mental Health and Substance Use

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Adolescents who are homeless face a variety of adverse outcomes and are at risk for concurrent mental health symptoms and substance use. Many come to the streets with a history of maltreatment, and have left home to escape dysfunctional environments, only to find themselves exposed to additional violence on the ...
  5 days ago

• Housing Subsidies and Homelessness: A Simple Idea

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Reducing homelessness is an indisputable social good, and housing subsidies offer one way to do so. However, subsidies come in many different varieties and are intricately bound up with economic and social policies. This paper, written by one of North America’s leading urban economists, cuts through the tangle and ...
  5 days ago

• Economic Human Rights (39): Does the Concept of Poverty Collapse Under the Weight of Historical Comparisons?

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 113
  "Now then, my man, weeks up! Cant ave a ome without payin for it, ye know!" Many of the people who are considered poor in developed countries have a higher living standard than the average middle class citizens of some centuries ago. If we bracket the minority of the extremely poor in developed countries (the ...
  5 days ago

• It’s too cold to be sleeping rough

  
  Latest Posts at LabourList.org — Authority: 608
  A surprisingly mild winter has turned into a cold and wet new year. If you’re anything like me you‘re persisting with the double duvet and the heavy coats. Now think about what you’d do if you were homeless. No double duvet, no central heating, no heavy coats. Mark Ferguson was right on Monday to place the ...
  5 days ago

• Welfare reform bill: child maintenance and social fund - live discussion

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  After last nights defeat in the Lords on the benefit cap, the government faces fresh opposition over its plans for child maintenance, and the social fund 11.56am: What did the media make of last nights government defeat in the Lords? The Daily Mail devoted its front page to the issue, which it headlined: ...
  6 days ago

• Trouble For Rent

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Leaky roofs. Mouldy walls. Broken doors and windows. Would you want to live in such a place? Probably not. But some tenants of one of Canada’s largest landlords have had to endure those conditions for years. Now, Marketplace is exposing renters’ horror stories about a multimillion-dollar company that just hasn’t ...
  6 days ago

• Tuberculosis among drug users and homeless persons: impact of voluntary X-ray investigation on active case finding

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Illicit drug use and homelessness are major contributors to the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among inhabitants of major cities. Objective The primary objective of this study was to establish a sustainable low-threshold chest X-ray screening programme for pulmonary TB among illicit drug users and homeless persons and ...
  6 days ago

• The Utility of Mentoring Homeless Adolescents: A Pilot Study

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Despite the intuitive appeal and popularity of mentoring programs, mentoring has shown only limited success for positively impacting children’s psychosocial functioning. Furthermore, we were not able to identify a study that examined the potential utility of mentoring for homeless adolescents. Objective: The purpose ...
  6 days ago

• Childhood Obesity and Dental Caries in Homeless Children

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Childhood obesity and dental caries are increasing epidemics, especially among children who are living below the poverty level. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and caries in homeless children. Methods A secondary data analysis with a correlational design was used. A ...
  6 days ago

• Mobilizing homeless youth for HIV prevention: a social network analysis of the acceptability of a face-to-face and online social networking intervention

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  The objective of the study is to use social network analysis to examine the acceptability of a youth-led, hybrid face-to-face and online social networking HIV prevention program for homeless youth.Seven peer leaders (PLs) engaged face-to-face homeless youth (F2F) in the creation of digital media projects (e.g. You ...
  6 days ago

• A Prospective Study of Childhood and Adolescent Antecedents of Homelessness among a Community Population of African Americans

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  Much is known about contemporaneous correlates of homelessness from studies of homeless individuals. However, few studies have prospectively examined early antecedents and prevalence of homelessness in community populations. We use data from a 35-year study of a community population of African Americans to examine ...
  6 days ago

• A benefits cap is an arbitrary way to deal with welfare dependency: this is populist gesture politics

  
  News Politics — Authority: 128
  Iain Duncan Smith is not the most interesting man in politics, at least not on the radio. But his policies are dominating the news agenda this morning. A group of peers, including several bishops and the former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown, are planning to throw out his idea of a £26,000 cap on the [...]
  1 week ago

• New Plan to Reduce Number of Homeless Families

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  Of all the families who seek temporary shelter in New York City, 40 percent have had at least one prior shelter stay. To reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for homeless parents and children in New York City and throughout the country, the independent nonprofit research organization Institute for Children, Poverty, ...
  1 week ago

• Homelessness down but seen rising anew: report

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  U.S. homelessness slipped 1 percent from 2009 to 2011, but the sluggish economy left more poor people struggling to pay for housing and just a step away from shelters, an advocacy group said in a new study on Wednesday. The drop to 636,017 homeless people last year could prove short-lived, since it was likely due to ...
  1 week ago

• The State of Homelessness in America 2012

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  The State of Homelessness in America 2012 examines homelessness between 2009 and 2011, a period of economic downturn in the nation. The report shows that despite the bad economy, homelessness decreased by 1 percent during this period. The decrease was likely due to a significant investment of federal resources to ...
  1 week ago

• 2.28 The Homeless Hub Newsletter – January 18, 2012

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 136
  2.28 The Homeless Hub Newsletter – January 18, 2012 Tags: newsletters Read full original post.
  1 week ago

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