Research and Evaluation listings
Investing in proven solutions is a key theme of the Opening Doors. Much research has been and is being conducted on homelessness across the federal government. There is tremendous opportunity to better understand and apply what is being learned by coordinating and sharing research across federal agencies and with states and local communities.
Towards that end, USICH released the nation's first-ever National Research Agenda: Priorities for Advancing Our Understanding of Homelessness in October 2012. This Agenda outlines priority areas where we believe Federal, local, and private investments should be made in additional research.
USICH has compiled and developed abstracts for approximately 200 studies conducted over the past decade; research that helped inform the Research Agenda and that contines to help improve the knowledge base of the field. Users can browse through the listings below or sort the information using the “Information by” filter along the left-hand side of the screen. Users can also search by keyword using the search box in the top right corner of every page.
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Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness
Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman and Jesse Valente May 2007 This study tests a typology of family homelessness based on patterns of public shelter utilization and examines whether family characteristics are associated with those patterns. The results ...
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Homeless Families and Children
John C. Buckner and Debra J. Rog May 2010 Since the mid-1990s, there has been continued research and policy interest in understanding the characteristics and needs of families and children who become homeless, especially in understanding the heterogeneity within the population and whether a ...
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Costs Associated with First Time Homelessness for Families and Individuals
Abt, Associates, Inc., Jill Khadduri, Josh Leopold, Brian Sokol, and Brooke Spellman March 2010 This study measures costs associated with first-time homeless families and individuals incurred by homeless and mainstream service delivery systems in six study communities. Unaccompanied ...
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Linking Human Services & Housing Assistance for Homeless Families & Families At-Risk of Homelessness
Alvaro Cortes, Ph.D. et al. Abt. Associates April 2012 Recent reports have brought national attention to the prevalence of family homelessness and the need to coordinate across all levels of government to prevent and end family homelessness. In June 2011, the U.S. ...
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J.J. Cutuli, et. al. University of Minnesota October 2012 Analyses examined academic achievement data across third through eighth grades (N = 26,474), comparing students identified as homeless or highly mobile (HHM) with other students in the federal free meal program (FM), reduced price ...
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Jocelyn Fontaine, Douglas Gilchrist-Scott, John Roman, Samuel Taxy, Caterina Gouvis Roman August 2012 This evaluation of a supportive housing reentry pilot project, "Returning Home-Ohio", yielded positive outcomes for program participants. The pilot project, developed jointly by the Ohio ...
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Building Bridges to Self-Sufficiency: Improving Services for Low-Income Working Families
Jennifer Miller March 2004 In 2001, MDRC and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices began an extensive examination of potential solutions and identified innovative programs under way in states and localities across the country. The culmination of these explorations is ...
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Next Step: Jobs Promoting Employment for Homeless People
David A. Long and Jean M. Amendolia September 2003 This report—“Promoting Employment for Homeless People” —by Abt Associates demonstrates that integrating employment services into supportive housing not only benefits tenants, but is a cost effective investment that ...
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Serving the homeless through the One-Stop system: A case study
Jennifer Henderson-Frakes June 2004 In the summer of 1999, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) a contract for the national Evaluation of the Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). This study consists of three phases. The first two ...
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Sexual Abuse Among Homeless Adolescents: Prevalence, Correlates, and Sequelae
Jody M. Greene November 2002 Over the past two decades, there has been increasing recognition that runaway and homeless youth constitute a vulnerable population that faces a multitude of problems while away from home and, often, difficulties of equal magnitude in the homes they have left. ...
