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Download full textWashington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
Research nationally demonstrates that children and youth experiencing foster care and/or homelessness achieve academic outcomes significantly below their peers due to trauma and loss, multiple changes in homes and schools, and emotional upheaval. When youth fail to graduate from high school, they are much more likely to live in poverty, require…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Homeless People, Outcomes of Education, High School Graduates
Longhi, Dario; And Others – 1994
This report provides a cost-benefit analysis of a program that provides publicly-funded treatment and support for persons who are addicted to alcohol or other drugs and who are judged to be indigent, unemployable, and incapacitated due to their addiction. The study focused on two client outcomes: (1) determine employment outcomes during an 18…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Cost Effectiveness, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation
Lowin, Aaron; Demirel, Sinan; Estee, Sharon; Schreiner, Bari – 2001
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services conducted a study to collect information about homeless families in the state who are relying on shelters. Information was obtained from census reports from all shelters in the state, from interviews with a parent from each of the 411 families living at the shelters, and from a review…
Descriptors: Employment, Family Financial Resources, Family Needs, Family Violence
