A prevention-centered approach to homelessness assistance: a paradigm shift?
This paper explores the conceptual underpinnings of successful prevention initiatives and reviews practice-based evidence from several successful prevention-oriented approaches to homelessness in the United States and Europe. The authors (Dennis Culhane, Stephen Metraux and Thomas Byrne) then outline a conceptual framework for a transformation of homeless assistance towards prevention-oriented approaches, with a discussion of relevant issues of program design and practice, data collection standards, and program performance monitoring and evaluation.