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    • Disconnected Mothers and the Well-Being of Children: A Research Report. 2013 (USA)
    • Parent-skills training in intensive home-based family support programs. 2013 (Australia)
    • Dept of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs FAHCSIA: Portfolio Budget Statements 2013-14, Budget Related Paper No. 1.6. 2013 (Australia)
    • How can Community Land Trusts provide accessible and stable tenure options for Indigenous Australians? 2013. (AHURI, Australia)
    • An Evaluation of the NW County Collaborative: Our Children Succeed Initiative. 2013 (USA)
    • Reducing the cost of poverty in Medicine Hat: moving from charity to investment. 2013 (Canada)
    • Housing Market in India: A Comparison with the US and Spain. 2013 (India)
    • I wish I’d known sooner: The impact of financial counselling on debt resolution and personal wellbeing. 2013 (Australia)
    • A home on the range or a home out of range> How Commonwealth Rent Assistance fails low income Australians. 2013 (Australia)
    • Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs: a review mapping the role of social factors. 2013 (UK)
  • Homelessness Information
    • Agreements and Initiatives
      • Australian Government Initiatives
        • Centrelink services for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness
        • HOME Advice
        • Innovation Fund program
        • National Homelessness Research
          • Developing an Effective Homelessness Workforce
          • Pulling It All Together: Design Considerations for an Integrated Homelessness Services System – Place Based Network Analysis
          • What Makes a Difference? Building a Foundation for Nationally Consistent Outcome Measures: An Evidence-Based Client Outcomes Model for Homelessness
          • Integrated Service Delivery in a Regional Homelessness Service System
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Responding to Children in Specialist Homelessness Services. 2011 (Aust)
          • Research Release: Addressing homelessness amongst persons with a disability: Identifying and enacting best practice. 2012 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Are Boarding Houses Disappearing? 2012 (Aust)
          • The Geelong Study
          • People in Improvised Dwellings, Tents and Sleepers Out
          • Research Release: Exploring Primary Health Care Needs, Welfare Requirements and Service Use of People Experiencing Homelessness within Melbourne’s CBD and Inner Suburbs
          • Research Release: Homeless Away from Home: Understanding homelessness patterns arising from the seasonal mobility of Aboriginal People to Regional Service Centres, September 2012
          • Research Release: Reducing the Need for Women and Children to Make Repeated Use of Refuge and Other Crisis Accommodation, 2012
          • Keeping Off the streets: Effective Models of Intervention with People who are Sleeping Rough – Service Models in Adelaide, Perth and Darwin
          • Research Release: Homelessness and Older Australians, Scoping the Issues
          • Research Release: Lifecourse institutional costs of homelessness for vulnerable groups, 2012 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Service Users: A Baseline Report on Brisbane’s Street to Home Program. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: A study of crisis intervention and planned family support with vulnerable families. Healy, K. A partnership between Micah Projects Inc. and Queensland University. December 2011
          • Research Release: Evaluation of the Melbourne Street to Home program: Baseline Report. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: Integrated Responses to Homelessness in Australia: an analysis of ‘joined up’ policy and practice. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: Journeys Home: Longitudinal Study of Factors Affecting Housing Stability. 2013 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Precarious Social Inclusion: Chronic Homelessness and Impaired Decision-Making Capacity. 2012 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Service Users: A Baseline Report on Sydney’s Way2Home Program. 2012 (Aust)
          • Street to Home in Australia: New Approaches to Ending Rough Sleeping in Brisbane and Sydney
          • Mapping services for rough sleepers in Hobart, Canberra and Melbourne
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: The Challenge of Monitoring Growth in Regional Indigenous Homelessness. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: The Role of Local Government in Addressing Homelessness – a Literature Review. 2012 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Understanding Homelessness Service Transitions. 2012 (Aust)
          • Connecting the Dots: Service Delivery Pathways and Homelessness study – Hurry, survey ending soon (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Integrating employment and housing support for homeless people: a case study. 2012 (Aust)
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: No Wrong Door? Managing Indigenous Homelessness in Mt Isa. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: The Role of the Philanthropic Sector in Addressing Homelessness: Australian and International Experience – a Literature Review. 2012 (Aust)
          • Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness?
          • RESEARCH RELEASE: Homelessness and Unemployment: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle. 2012 (Aust)
          • Research Release: Indigenous Women and the Role of Transactional Sex in Homelessness. 2012
          • Finding work: Homelessness and Employment
          • Supporting Fathers Who Are Homeless
          • Mapping and Reviewing Homelessness Programs
          • The influence of unstable housing on children’s wellbeing and development
        • National Homelessness Services Achievement Awards
        • Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2010-11: state and territory findings. 2013 (Aust)
        • National Quality Framework for services to people experiencing homelessness
        • Departmental Review of the Reconnect program. 2013 (Aust)
        • Prime Minister’s Council on Homelessness
        • Reconnect
          • Reconnect evaluation report and literature review
        • Rent Assistance
        • Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund (SAIF)
        • Ageing and Aged Care for LGBTI people. 2013 (Aust)
      • State and Territory Initiatives
        • NSW Initiatives
          • NSW Government announces changes to the regulation of boarding houses
          • Exposure draft – Public Housing Tenants’ Support Bill 2013
          • Going Home Staying Home. 2013 (Aust)
          • Listening to homeless people – they’ve been saying it for a while: Submission in response to Family and Community Services Consultation Paper – Future Directions for Specialist Homelessness
          • Protocol for Homeless People in Public Places. 2012
          • Going Home Staying Home reforms: Consultation report. 2012
          • Permanency planning and adoption of children in out-of-home care. Briefing Paper No 03/2013 (NSW, Aust)
        • VIC Initiatives
          • Victorian Homelessness Action Plan 2011-15
          • Melbourne Street to Home
          • Pathways to a new Victorian social housing framework
          • Making it Home: Refugee Housing in Melbourne’s West. 2012
          • Rural women face judgement and misinformation on family planning. 2013 (Aust)
          • Victorian Auditor-General’s Office: Addressing Homelessness: Partnerships and Plans. 2012 (Aust)
        • QLD Initiatives
        • SA Initiatives
          • Rotary PhD Scholarship in “Youth Homelessness” available. (South Aust)
        • WA Initiatives
          • Implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness in Western Australia
        • TAS Initiatives
        • NT Initiatives
        • ACT Initiatives
          • Youth Integrated Education and Accommodation Program
      • Local Government Initiatives
        • NSW
        • VIC
        • QLD
        • TAS
      • Community Initiatives
        • Mercy Foundation – Grants to End Homelessness
        • OzHarvest
        • Rooftop Foundation Inc.
        • Hungry For A Home
        • Seeking Good Practice in the Homelessness and VET sectors to improve education outcomes for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
        • Time to get real. 2012 (Aust)
        • ‘We look after our neighbours here’: Support services for NSW social housing tenants: Executive Summary. 2012 (NSW, Aust)
        • Case Management Society of Australia (CMSA) 2013 activities
        • Meeting the Challenge: Transitions out of Long-Term Homelessness. 2012 (Aust)
        • Where are we going? HomeGround Strategic Plan 2012-2015. (Vic, Aust)
        • Innovating alongside Designers. 2013 (Aust)
        • Literature review of the interplay between education, employment, health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote areas. 2013 (Aust)
        • Professional Development Opportunity
        • Behaving Badly or Brain Injury?
        • Its good to have wheels! 2012 (Aust)
        • Navigating the 4Cs Conference
        • What role does assertive outreach play in ending homelessness for people who are sleeping rough? 2013 (Aust)
        • AWARENESS Weeks and Days – 2013 (Aust)
        • Under 1 Roof: Learning, Training and Development Survey
        • In their words: StreetCare members share their stories about homelessness. 2012 (NSW, Aust)
        • Outcomes of the Inner City Youth At-Risk Project: July 2010 – June 2012. (Aust)
        • Training opportunities
      • International Initiatives
        • Evidence Matters, Summer 2012
        • Strategies to End Homelessness: Current Approaches to Evaluation
        • The Housing Report, Edition 2
        • Calgary Homeless Foundation
        • The International Homeless Forum’s World Homelessness Day 10/10/2012
        • Canadian Homelessness Research Network
        • Renewable energy: Getting the benefits right for social housing, 2012
        • Having and Keeping a Home: steps to preventing homelessness among young people, 2012
        • Homelessness Partnering Strategy
        • The Homeless Hub
        • Being homeless and experiencing mental health-related difficulties: Listening to and learning from the experiences of service users of a designated homeless psychology service, 2012
        • Communities and Local Government
        • Effectiveness of Housing First for non-chronically homeless individuals who are high utilizers of inpatient psychiatric treatment, 2012
        • A House is Not Always a Home: A Needs and Assets Assessment, 2012
        • A Population-Based Inquiry of Homeless Episode Characteristics and Early Educational Well-Being. 2013 (Canada)
        • Asking for Directions: Partnering with Youth to Build the Evidence Base for Runaway and Homeless Youth Services. 2013 (USA)
        • European Journal of Homelessness Issue 6 (2).
        • Female homelessness in Brussels: an evolution in need of clarification. 2012
        • Homeless Link (England)
        • Human dignity and the logic of Caritas: The source and direction of economic justice, 2012
        • Take the story, take the needs and DO Something. 2012 (Canada)
        • The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) introduces the Solutions Database. 2013 (USA)
        • Beyond Housing: At Home/Chez Soi Early Findings Report: Participant Outcomes. 2012 (Canada)
        • Bringing Home Effective Nursing Care for the Homeless. 2013 (USA)
        • European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless
        • FEANTSA
        • HIV and the urban homeless in Johannesburg. 2012
        • Homeless Encampments on Public Right-of-Way: A Planning and Best Practices Guide. USA, 2012
        • Homelessness kills: An analysis of the mortality of homeless people in early twenty-first century England, 2012.
        • Housing First: Basic Tenets of the Definition across Cultures. 2012 (USA)
        • It’s Everybody’s Business: Engaging the private sector in solutions to youth homelessness. 2012 (Canada)
        • No Place to Call Home: The Social Impacts of Housing Undersupply on Young People. 2012 (UK)
        • Research to Assess the Impact of Further Education Funding Changes Relating to Incentives for Training Unemployed Learners. 2013 (UK)
        • Resilience and At-risk Children and Youth. 2013 (USA)
        • Social media as a tool for inclusion, 2012
        • Blueprint to End Homelessness (USA)
        • Housing First Europe: Progress Report on a Social Experimentation Project. 2012 (Germany)
        • Mapping the concept of vulnerability related to health care disparities: a scoping review. 2013 (Canada)
        • Quality of Life and Unmet Need in People with Psychosis in the London Borough of Haringey. 2012 (UK)
        • Radical reform of the welfare system seeks to “make work pay” by tackling disincentives to moving into work and simplifying the benefit system, 2012
        • Recruiting Ethnically Diverse Participants into Qualitative Health Research: Lessons Learned. 2013 (Canada)
        • Skin cancer screening in the homeless population. 2013 (USA)
        • Street health: Practitioner service provision for Maori Homeless people in Auckland, 2012
        • The Challenges of Developing and Managing Mixed Tenure Housing, 2012
        • The Elderly Homeless: A Study Comparing Older and Younger Homeless Persons, With Three Case Histories. 2013 (USA)
        • American Journal of Public Health: Homelessness and Public Health issue – Call for Papers
        • All Adults Once Were Children. 2013 (USA)
        • Bridging Services For Women: Coordinating a Community Response to Violence Against Women and Sexual & Reproductive Health. 2013 (Canada)
        • Coming of Age: 18 years, eighteen stories. 2010 (UK)
        • Community Solutions
        • Consultation: Integrated Services and Housing Consultation. 8-9 November, 2012
        • Defining Homelessness: Who does the safety net help and how does it support them? (UK), 2012
        • ETHOS: A Perspective from the United States of America. 2012
        • Housing and Homelessness Strategy Targets: Report Card. 2013 (Canada)
        • Hungary is entrenching the criminalization of homelessness – UN experts on poverty and housing. 2013 (Europe)
        • Live, Learn, Grow: Supporting Transitions to Adulthood for Homeless Youth – A Framework for the Foyer in Canada. 2012
        • On the Way Home? FEANTSA Monitoring Report on Homelessness and Homeless Policies in Europe. 2012
        • Opening Doors – Amendment (2012)
        • Project-Based Housing First for Chronically Homeless Individuals With Alcohol Problems: Within-Subjects Analyses of 2-Year Alcohol Trajectories. 2012 (USA)
        • The Age Structure of Contemporary Homelessness: Evidence and Implications for Public Policy. 2013 (USA)
        • Youth Homelessness in Canada Implications for Policy and Practice. 2013 (Canada)
        • A dismantling study of assertive outreach services: comparing activity and outcomes following replacement with the FACT model. UK, 2012
        • A Systematic Review on the Intersection of Homelessness and Healthcare. 2012 (Canada)
        • Abandoning the Right to Food. 2012 (India)
        • Canadian Definition Of Homelessness. 2013 (Canada)
        • Evidence Matters: Transforming Knowledge into Housing and Community Development Policy. 2012 (USA)
        • Fear of Crime in Residential Areas. 2013 Malaysia
        • Freedom to Succeed: Liberating the potential of housing associations. 2012 (UK)
        • Homelessness and Residential Care. 2013 (India)
        • Housing First ‘down under’: Revolution, Realignment or Rhetoric? 2012 (Aust)
        • Mental Illness and The Criminal Justice System. 2013 (Canada)
        • Opening Eyes, Opening Minds: The Ontario Burden of Mental Illness and Addictions, 2012
        • Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness: Annual Homeless Assessment Report Vol.1. 2012 (USA)
        • United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
        • We’re not asking, we’re telling: An inventory of practices promoting the dignity, autonomy, and self-determination of women and families facing homelessness, 2011
        • What do we Mean by Housing First? Categorising and Critically Assessing the Housing First Movement from a European Perspective. 2012
        • Exploration of Arrest Activity among Homeless Young Adults in Four U.S. Cities, 2012
        • Food for thought: applying house price inflation to grocery prices. 2013 (UK)
        • Hard to House – a practitioner model for housing recently incarcerated persons. 2012 (Canada)
        • Homelessness Prevention: An Inexpensive Solution to a Costly Social Problem. 2012 (USA)
        • Mapping the number of extra housing units needed for young people. 2012 (UK)
        • Millions of Youth Put at Risk By Parents’ Low-Wage Jobs. 2012 (USA)
        • Moving from rhetoric to reality: Adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups, 2012
        • National Alliance to End Homelessness
        • Off the radar: children and young people on the streets in the UK. 2013
        • Services to the Homeless with Serious Mental Illness: From an Occupational Therapy Perspective. 2012 (USA)
        • Coexisting social conditions and health problems among clients seeking treatment for illicit drug use in Finland: The HUUTI study. 2013 (Finland)
        • Housing First: Where is the evidence? 2012 (Canada)
        • Mental health, concurrent disorders, and health care utilization in homeless women, 2012
        • REACH: a new model of intervention for children before, during and after they run away. 2012 (UK)
        • The Copeland Housing Strategy 2011 to 2015. (UK)
        • The FOR-HOME study: Moves to independent living Single homeless people’s experiences and outcomes of resettlement. 2011 (UK)
        • Effective Strategies and Interventions: environmental health and the private housing sector. 2013 (UK)
        • Homelessness Strategy for Northern Ireland 2012 -17
        • Homelessness: Fragmentation and Overlap in Programs Highlight the Need to Identify, Assess, and Reduce Inefficiencies
        • Proposed Affordable Housing Strategy. 2012 (Canada)
        • The real cost of homelessness: Can we save money by doing the right thing? 2012 (Canada)
        • The role of the planning system in delivering housing choice for older Londoners. 2012 (UK)
        • The Vancouver At Home Study: Overview and methods of a Housing First trial among individuals who are homeless and living with mental illness. 2012 (Canada)
        • Women rough sleepers who are the victims of domestic violence: Final report. 2012 (UK)
        • International Homelessness Policy Review
        • Subjective Sleep Complaints in Patients Attending a Substance Use Disorder Clinic. 2012 (Ireland)
        • The rent trap and the fading dream of owning a home. 2013 (UK)
        • Which former youth offenders are staying out of trouble? 2013 (USA)
        • Evaluation of the Global Youth Work in Action Project (2010-13) (EU)
        • 9th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2013. (USA)
        • European Manual on Risk Assessment. 2013
      • Social Housing Initiative Review. 2012 (Aust)
    • Publications
      • Parity
        • Parity : Call for Contributions
        • Parity “Responding to Homelessness in Tasmania: Putting the Pieces Together” Volume 24 Issue 10
        • Parity magazine – Call for Contributions
      • INFORM
      • Beyond Earn or Learn. 2013 (Aust)
      • Where and how do Australia’s older people live? 2013 (ABS, Aust)
      • Release of Housing Supply and Affordability Issues. 2012-13 (Aust)
      • The cost of homelessness and the net benefit of homelessness programs: a national study. 2013 (AHURI, Aust)
      • Living Longer. Living Better. 2012 (Aust)
    • Research and Data
      • Definition of homelessness changes but problems remain
      • Research Papers
        • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) – Research
        • Homelessness Prevention – Research
        • Cross Client Issues – Research
        • Early Intervention – Research
        • Policies and programs to end homelessness in Australia: Learning from international practice, 2012
        • Families – Research
        • Former Prisoners – Research
        • Indigenous – Research
          • Overcrowding for Indigenous households in non-remote areas. 2012
        • Health – Research
          • Exploring Possible Connections Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Homelessness
        • Older People – Research
          • Older Australians reluctant to downsize, 2012
          • Older People with Acquired Brain Injury & Associated Complex Behaviours: A Psychosocial Model of Care. Wicking Report, 2012
        • Youth justice in Australia 2011-12: an overview. (AIHW), Australia
        • A cross-sectional survey of health risk behaviour clusters among a sample of socially disadvantaged Australian welfare recipients. 2013 (Aust)
        • Rough Sleepers – Research
          • Breaking the cycle of homelessness through intensive support. 2012 (AIFS)
        • Women – Research
        • Children and Youths – Research
        • Failure of Care in State Care: InCare Abuse and Post care Homelessness. 2011 (AHURI)
        • Agency Management – Research
        • Evidence Review: An analysis of the evidence for parenting interventions in Australia. 2012 (Aust)
        • Service Delivery – Research
        • Me, Myself and I: Identity and meaning in the lives of vulnerable young people. 2013 (Aust)
        • What influences the outcomes of affordable housing projects? 2013 (AHURI)
        • The role of informal community resources in supporting stable housing for young people recovering from mental illness: key issues for housing policy-makers and practitioners. 2013 (AHURI)
      • Articles/Papers about Homelessness
      • Data and Data Reports
        • Australian Bureau of Statistics
          • General Social Survey
          • Information Paper – A Statistical Definition of Homelessness (cat.no.4922.0)
        • Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) Collection
        • SAAP National Data Collection Reports
        • City Street Counts
        • Report on Government Services
        • Census of Population and Housing: Estimating homelessness, 2006- (cat.no.2049.0)
        • Community Data Reports
        • International Data Reports
        • Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011 Census) Estimating homelessness. 2012
        • Technical report: Linking SAAP, child protection and juvenile justice data. AIHW, 2012
        • 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 2012
      • Census 2011
      • Journeys Home – A longitudinal study of factors affecting housing stability
        • Journeys Home: Longitudinal Study of Factors Affecting Housing Stability release of Wave 1 Report
      • Think Child Think Family Survey report. 2010 (Aust)
      • National Social Housing Survey
      • Housing and children’s wellbeing and development: Evidence from a national longitudinal study. 2012 (Aust)
      • Bridging the divide: householder and service provider experiences of forced exits from private rental in Queensland. 2013 (Aust)
      • Children and young people at risk of social exclusion – Links between homelessness, child protection and juvenile justice. AIHW, 2012
      • Implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness – ANAO Audit Report. 2013 (Australia)
      • AIHW Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (March Quarter, 2012)
      • AIHW report: Housing assistance in Australia. 2012
      • Housing Finance, Australia. January, 2013
      • What effect does housing assistance have on social inclusion for people with disabilities? 2013 (Aust)
      • AIHW report: Specialist Homelessness Services Collection Annual Report 2011-12. (Aust)
      • Lifetime and intergenerational experiences of homelessness in Australia. 2013 (Aust)
      • Building Activity, Australia, Dec 2012 (ABS, Aust)
    • Conferences, Seminars and Events
      • AHURI Seminar- Secure occupancy in rental housing: an international comparison
      • National Homelessness Services Achievement Awards
      • Homelessness Workshops for policy-makers
      • 16th National Case Management Conference – Reinvigorate, Recharge, Rejuvenate: Taking a Fresh Look at Case Management
      • New Perspectives in Homelessness Research: An Interdisciplinary Workshop and Call for Papers (Aust)
      • CHP Conference 2013: A Vision for Ending Homelessness.
    • Client Issues
      • Rough Sleepers
      • Families
      • Indigenous
      • Men
      • Women
      • Children and Youths
        • Yfoundations
          • Youth Homelessness Fact Sheet
        • Time for Youth
      • Cross Client Issues
      • Former Prisoners
      • Older People
      • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
      • Investing in care: Recognising and valuing those who care. Volume 1, 2013 (Aust)
    • Agency Management
      • Case Management
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Health – Research

Older People – Research

Rough Sleepers – Research

Women – Research

Children and Youths – Research

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