This study developed risk models for returns to housing instability (that is, homelessness and un... more This study developed risk models for returns to housing instability (that is, homelessness and unstable doubling-up situations) among families exiting emergency shelter. Participants included 446 families randomly assigned to receive priority offers of long-term housing subsidies and 578 families randomly assigned to usual care in the Family Options Study, a multisite experiment designed to test the impact of various housing and service interventions for homeless families. Relationships between family features recorded at shelter entry and returns to housing instability 20 months later were examined empirically. Correlation, hierarchical logistic regression, and receiver operating characteristic curves were used to combine family features into predictive risk models. Results indicated that few observable family features beyond previous housing instability offered predictive utility. Access to long-term housing subsidies appears to reduce housing instability. Further research should examine whether disability benefits, reliable employment, or effective substance dependence treatment reduce housing instability.
This chapter summarizes three kinds of intervention goals and strategies that can improve youth-s... more This chapter summarizes three kinds of intervention goals and strategies that can improve youth-serving social settings. First, organizations and communities can come together in participatory ways to plan and implement setting-level change. Processes of buy-in, collaboration, and capacity-building are considered from both organizational and community perspectives. Second, organizations and communities can better use setting-level data to monitor progress, rather than relying on the typical bean-counting approaches to measure youth participation, or single youth indicators like high-stakes testing. Third, organizations and communities can increase both the representation of diverse groups of youth in social settings and the quality of their experience. Examples are drawn from the other chapters in the volume.
A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolv... more A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the in the midst of plenty is one book that we really recommend you to read, to get more solutions in solving this problem.
BackgroundHousing insecurity is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients. Despite a sur... more BackgroundHousing insecurity is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients. Despite a surge of interest in screening for patients' social needs including housing insecurity, little research has examined ED social needs interventions. We worked together with government and community partners to develop and pilot test a homelessness prevention intervention targeted to ED patients with drug or unhealthy alcohol use.MethodsWe approached randomly sampled patients at an urban public hospital ED, May to August 2019. Adult patients were eligible if they were medically stable, not incarcerated, spoke English, had unhealthy alcohol or any drug use, and were not currently homeless but screened positive for risk of future homelessness using a previously developed risk screening tool. Participants received a three‐part intervention: (1) brief counseling and referral to treatment for substance use delivered through a preexisting ED program; (2) referral to Homebase, an evidence‐based community homelessness prevention program; and (3) up to three troubleshooting phone calls by study staff. Participants completed surveys at baseline and 6 months.ResultsOf 2183 patients screened, 51 were eligible and 40 (78.4%) participated; one later withdrew, leaving 39 participants. Participants were diverse in age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Of the 32 participants reached at 6 months, most said it was very or extremely helpful to talk to someone about their housing situation (n = 23, 71.9%) at the baseline ED visit. Thirteen (40.6%) said their housing situation had improved in the past 6 months and 16 (50.0%) said it had not changed. Twenty participants (62.5%) had made contact with a Homebase office. Participants shared ideas of how to improve the intervention.ConclusionsThis pilot intervention was feasible and well received by participants though it required a large amount of screening to identify potentially eligible patients. Our findings will inform a larger future trial and may be informative for others seeking to develop similar interventions.
Dedication. Preface. List of Contributors. Editors' Biographies. Table of Contents. Introduct... more Dedication. Preface. List of Contributors. Editors' Biographies. Table of Contents. Introduction to the volume T.A. Revenson. I: Design Issues in Intervention Research. Section Overview A.R. D'Augelli. 1. Probing the Effects of Individual Components in Multiple Component Prevention Programs S.G. West, et al. 2. From Field Experiments to Program Implementation: Assessing the Potential Outcomes of an Experimental Intervention Program for Unemployed Persons A.D. Vinokur, et al. 3. Research on the Cost Effectiveness of Early Educational Implications for Research and Policy S.W. Barnett, C.M. Escobar. II: Ecological Assessment. Section Overview M. Shinn. 4. Measuring Neighborhood Context for Young Children in an Urban Area C.J. Coulton, et al. 5. Ecological Assessments of Community Disorder: Their Relationship to Fear of Crime and Theoretical Implications D.D. Perkins, R.B. Taylor. 6. Detecting 'Cracks' in Mental Health Service Systems: Application of Network Analytic Techniques M. Tausig. 7. Social Support Processes in Early Childhood Friendship: A Comparative Study of Ecological Congruences in Enacted Support T.A. Rizzo, W.A. Corsaro. 8. Setting Phenotypes in a Mutual Help Organization: Expanding Behavior Setting Theory D.A. Luke, et al. III: Culturally-Anchored Research. Section Overview T.A. Revenson. 9. In Pursuit of a Culturally-Anchored Methodology D. Hughes, E. Seidman. 10. Using Focus Groups to Facilitate Culturally Anchored Research D. Hughes, K. DuMont. 11. The Structure of Problem andPositive Behavior among American Indian Adolescents: Gender and Community Differences C.M. Mitchell, J. Beals.
I am delighted to introduce Irene Hanson Frieze on the occasion of her presidential address to th... more I am delighted to introduce Irene Hanson Frieze on the occasion of her presidential address to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Indeed, it has been a great pleasure to watch Irene's energy and commitment to SPSSI for the past 2 years that we have served together on SPSSI Council. She has not only revised our Administrative Handbook, but also shepherded the Society through a difficult period when we were changing both our staffing structure and our staff, spurred a major reorganization of our website, and led us in so many other ways. The presidency caps Irene's long history of service to SPSSI, as Editor of the Journal of Social Issues, Council member, chair of our APA program, liaison to APA's Science Directorate, and member of half a dozen different committees over many years. SPSSI previously acknowledged our gratitude with a Distinguished Service Award. What SPSSI members may not know is how many other organizations have benefited from Irene's efforts. While she served as our president this year, she has also been editor of Sex Roles. While she was our president-elect, she was also president of the University Senate at the University of Pittsburgh. Indeed, the only hypothesis I could come up with to explain her prodigious accomplishments in scholarship, teaching, and professional service is that Irene is not a single person, but actually triplets. Consider the evidence for this conjecture:
This study developed risk models for returns to housing instability (that is, homelessness and un... more This study developed risk models for returns to housing instability (that is, homelessness and unstable doubling-up situations) among families exiting emergency shelter. Participants included 446 families randomly assigned to receive priority offers of long-term housing subsidies and 578 families randomly assigned to usual care in the Family Options Study, a multisite experiment designed to test the impact of various housing and service interventions for homeless families. Relationships between family features recorded at shelter entry and returns to housing instability 20 months later were examined empirically. Correlation, hierarchical logistic regression, and receiver operating characteristic curves were used to combine family features into predictive risk models. Results indicated that few observable family features beyond previous housing instability offered predictive utility. Access to long-term housing subsidies appears to reduce housing instability. Further research should examine whether disability benefits, reliable employment, or effective substance dependence treatment reduce housing instability.
This chapter summarizes three kinds of intervention goals and strategies that can improve youth-s... more This chapter summarizes three kinds of intervention goals and strategies that can improve youth-serving social settings. First, organizations and communities can come together in participatory ways to plan and implement setting-level change. Processes of buy-in, collaboration, and capacity-building are considered from both organizational and community perspectives. Second, organizations and communities can better use setting-level data to monitor progress, rather than relying on the typical bean-counting approaches to measure youth participation, or single youth indicators like high-stakes testing. Third, organizations and communities can increase both the representation of diverse groups of youth in social settings and the quality of their experience. Examples are drawn from the other chapters in the volume.
A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolv... more A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the in the midst of plenty is one book that we really recommend you to read, to get more solutions in solving this problem.
BackgroundHousing insecurity is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients. Despite a sur... more BackgroundHousing insecurity is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients. Despite a surge of interest in screening for patients' social needs including housing insecurity, little research has examined ED social needs interventions. We worked together with government and community partners to develop and pilot test a homelessness prevention intervention targeted to ED patients with drug or unhealthy alcohol use.MethodsWe approached randomly sampled patients at an urban public hospital ED, May to August 2019. Adult patients were eligible if they were medically stable, not incarcerated, spoke English, had unhealthy alcohol or any drug use, and were not currently homeless but screened positive for risk of future homelessness using a previously developed risk screening tool. Participants received a three‐part intervention: (1) brief counseling and referral to treatment for substance use delivered through a preexisting ED program; (2) referral to Homebase, an evidence‐based community homelessness prevention program; and (3) up to three troubleshooting phone calls by study staff. Participants completed surveys at baseline and 6 months.ResultsOf 2183 patients screened, 51 were eligible and 40 (78.4%) participated; one later withdrew, leaving 39 participants. Participants were diverse in age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Of the 32 participants reached at 6 months, most said it was very or extremely helpful to talk to someone about their housing situation (n = 23, 71.9%) at the baseline ED visit. Thirteen (40.6%) said their housing situation had improved in the past 6 months and 16 (50.0%) said it had not changed. Twenty participants (62.5%) had made contact with a Homebase office. Participants shared ideas of how to improve the intervention.ConclusionsThis pilot intervention was feasible and well received by participants though it required a large amount of screening to identify potentially eligible patients. Our findings will inform a larger future trial and may be informative for others seeking to develop similar interventions.
Dedication. Preface. List of Contributors. Editors' Biographies. Table of Contents. Introduct... more Dedication. Preface. List of Contributors. Editors' Biographies. Table of Contents. Introduction to the volume T.A. Revenson. I: Design Issues in Intervention Research. Section Overview A.R. D'Augelli. 1. Probing the Effects of Individual Components in Multiple Component Prevention Programs S.G. West, et al. 2. From Field Experiments to Program Implementation: Assessing the Potential Outcomes of an Experimental Intervention Program for Unemployed Persons A.D. Vinokur, et al. 3. Research on the Cost Effectiveness of Early Educational Implications for Research and Policy S.W. Barnett, C.M. Escobar. II: Ecological Assessment. Section Overview M. Shinn. 4. Measuring Neighborhood Context for Young Children in an Urban Area C.J. Coulton, et al. 5. Ecological Assessments of Community Disorder: Their Relationship to Fear of Crime and Theoretical Implications D.D. Perkins, R.B. Taylor. 6. Detecting 'Cracks' in Mental Health Service Systems: Application of Network Analytic Techniques M. Tausig. 7. Social Support Processes in Early Childhood Friendship: A Comparative Study of Ecological Congruences in Enacted Support T.A. Rizzo, W.A. Corsaro. 8. Setting Phenotypes in a Mutual Help Organization: Expanding Behavior Setting Theory D.A. Luke, et al. III: Culturally-Anchored Research. Section Overview T.A. Revenson. 9. In Pursuit of a Culturally-Anchored Methodology D. Hughes, E. Seidman. 10. Using Focus Groups to Facilitate Culturally Anchored Research D. Hughes, K. DuMont. 11. The Structure of Problem andPositive Behavior among American Indian Adolescents: Gender and Community Differences C.M. Mitchell, J. Beals.
I am delighted to introduce Irene Hanson Frieze on the occasion of her presidential address to th... more I am delighted to introduce Irene Hanson Frieze on the occasion of her presidential address to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Indeed, it has been a great pleasure to watch Irene's energy and commitment to SPSSI for the past 2 years that we have served together on SPSSI Council. She has not only revised our Administrative Handbook, but also shepherded the Society through a difficult period when we were changing both our staffing structure and our staff, spurred a major reorganization of our website, and led us in so many other ways. The presidency caps Irene's long history of service to SPSSI, as Editor of the Journal of Social Issues, Council member, chair of our APA program, liaison to APA's Science Directorate, and member of half a dozen different committees over many years. SPSSI previously acknowledged our gratitude with a Distinguished Service Award. What SPSSI members may not know is how many other organizations have benefited from Irene's efforts. While she served as our president this year, she has also been editor of Sex Roles. While she was our president-elect, she was also president of the University Senate at the University of Pittsburgh. Indeed, the only hypothesis I could come up with to explain her prodigious accomplishments in scholarship, teaching, and professional service is that Irene is not a single person, but actually triplets. Consider the evidence for this conjecture:
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