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Community Case Management Intervention for Hard-to-Place Homeless Families Leaving Emergency Shelter

Community Case Management Intervention for Hard-to-Place Homeless Families Leaving Emergency Shelter AbstractThe Community Case Management Intervention was designed to fill a gap in services for hard to place homeless families who leave emergency shelters. There were 51 adults and 78 children who participated in the research. Families who met the criteria and volunteered for the study were randomly assigned to an intervention or comparison condition. Intensive case management was provided to families in the intervention condition upon their exit from the shelter. Services included referral, advocacy, support, and assistance with family problem-solving and decision-making. Comparison families did not receive similar services. Results of the study are encouraging and show that families in the intervention felt greater levels of social support and greater family unity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Distress and Homeless Taylor & Francis

Community Case Management Intervention for Hard-to-Place Homeless Families Leaving Emergency Shelter

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2009 Maney
ISSN
1573-658X
eISSN
1053-0789
DOI
10.1179/105307809805365109
Publisher site
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Abstract

AbstractThe Community Case Management Intervention was designed to fill a gap in services for hard to place homeless families who leave emergency shelters. There were 51 adults and 78 children who participated in the research. Families who met the criteria and volunteered for the study were randomly assigned to an intervention or comparison condition. Intensive case management was provided to families in the intervention condition upon their exit from the shelter. Services included referral, advocacy, support, and assistance with family problem-solving and decision-making. Comparison families did not receive similar services. Results of the study are encouraging and show that families in the intervention felt greater levels of social support and greater family unity.

Journal

Journal of Social Distress and HomelessTaylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 2009

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