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Direct linkMelissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Download full textNash, Woods; Mixer, Sandra J.; McArthur, Polly M.; Mendola, Annette; Jackson, Kylie; Darlington, Caroline; Spangler, Bruce; Pressley, Merrell; Conley, Erin – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2018
Despite their interest in completing advance directives (ADs), persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) appear to have fewer surrogate decision-makers and limited opportunities for advance care planning (ACP). Nursing students and faculty, a hospital bioethicist, and social service agency staff formed a community-academic partnership that helps PEH…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Persons, Planning, Informed Consent
Patterson, David A.; Cronley, Courtney; West, Stacia; Lantz, Jennifer – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
This article examines an ongoing university-community relationship that fuses innovative technology delivery, university-outreach research, and social work practice/research education into a unique, collaborative intervention to reduce homelessness. In doing so, we apply a social justice framework to homelessness, arguing that housing is a right…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Social Justice, Civil Rights
Hoover, Greg A.; Carter, Michael V. – Rural Sociologist, 1991
Studied 71 nonurban homeless adults over a period of approximately 3 years at 2 separate shelters. Two-thirds of the sample were local people. Common reasons for homelessness were family problems, economic problems, and personal problems. There was no evidence that mental illness played a substantial role in this homelessness. Describes…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Financial Problems, Homeless People, Housing
Nooe, Roger M.; Cunningham, Maryanne Lynch – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1992
Compared homelessness among persons in a metropolitan setting based on whether or not the person had migrated from a rural area. Found that those from rural areas had a lower level of educational achievement, experienced a higher degree of isolation from families, and frequently had come to the urban area seeking jobs. (KS)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Demography, Educational Attainment, Family Problems
Peer reviewedCavender, Anthony; And Others – Appalachian Journal, 1993
Interviews with homeless people in east Tennessee reveal how they came to be homeless and the problems encompassing homelessness. Most did not develop the sense of home that is formed early in life in stable families and that contributes to formation of self-concept. (LP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment
