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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”

 

• Mayor Opens Emergency Shelter For Rough Sleepers

  
  Londonist — Authority: 624
  Just over month since the Crisis at Christmas centres closed, the Mayor has opened a city-hall funded emergency rough sleepers’ shelter in Lambeth. The centre is run by St Mungo’s and provides hot showers, food and clean clothes as well as refuge from the sub-zero streets and a bed for the night. Support and ...
  7 hours ago

• Behavioural interventions for preventing HIV infection in homeless or unstably-housed adults

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  The terms “homeless” can refer to variety of situations, such as runaway, throwaway, unaccompanied, street, and systems youth). Homeless adults constitute one of the most-at-risk of HIV because they are usually engaged in different HIV risky sexual behaviours (Baybuga 2004; de Carvalho 2006). Owing to their high ...
  7 hours ago

• Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness Among US Veterans

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing and ending homelessness among this population. Homeless veterans are at higher risk for chronic disease; understanding the dynamics of homelessness among veterans can contribute to our understanding of their health ...
  7 hours ago

• The Housing Market and Canada’s Economic Recovery

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  A healthy housing sector, able to meet a broad range of needs, is a vital part of the economic and social wellbeing of any community. Whether they are recent college graduates, new immigrants, or senior citizens, Canadians at various income levels and stages of life have different housing needs. Local governments have ...
  7 hours ago

• Engaging the Reluctant? Service Learning, Interpersonal Contact, and Attitudes toward Homeless Individuals

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  This article examines the extent to which service-learning courses affect students’ attitudes and opinions. Elsewhere, we used a pre/postsurvey field experiment to demonstrate that volunteering with a homeless person tends to erode the stereotypes held by the domiciled—a confirmation of the venerable contact ...
  1 day ago

• DeMarco

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  Tweet DeMarco lives in a homeless shelter with his two boys near Detroit. At 45 years-old, DeMarco always thought life would be different. But because of a few mistakes and the economy he is forced to start over. Life for a single parent is hard, now add homelessness and life becomes a daily challenge! DeMarco talks ...
  2 days ago

• Next Step Financial Achievement

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  This video follows the personal stories of three individuals who struggled with very low income. Heather, Kelly and Bernice share their experiences with the Next Step financial achievement program and talk about the difference it has made in their lives. In this one year journey, they discovered that in in spite of ...
  3 days ago

• Carolynn

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Pottstown Encouraged Feb. 9 To ‘Rethink Homelessness’

  
  The Pottstown Post — Authority: 119
  A community group will sponsor a forum about homelessness in greater Pottstown and how to address it.
  6 days ago

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

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  MUSSEL POWER Samantha Garvey with her teacher Rebecca Grella. Ms. Garvey, 18, a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, is newly homeless.
  1 week ago

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

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Housing Subsidies and Homelessness: A Simple Idea

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• It’s too cold to be sleeping rough

  
  Latest Posts at LabourList.org — Authority: 603
  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 ...
  1 week 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: ...
  1 week ago

• Trouble For Rent

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Utility of Mentoring Homeless Adolescents: A Pilot Study

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Childhood Obesity and Dental Caries in Homeless Children

  
  The Just Life — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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