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Jessica Lauren Perez; Anaid Yerena – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
In the United States, in 2013, 610,042 people were estimated homeless in one night. Improving the effectiveness of homeless assistance programs, particularly aligning programs' practices with their goals, is critical to serving this population. Using a theory that predicts homeless exits, this study presents an innovative, low-cost evaluation tool…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Housing Needs, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
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Edson Júnior Silva da Cruz; Lília Ieda Chaves Cavalcante; Edilene Maia Liebentritt; Janari da Silva Pedroso – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The objective of this study was to evaluate the motor, cognitive and language development of babies living in two institutional contexts. Seventy babies participated in the study: 35 from prisons and 35 from shelters. Thirty-five mothers of hospitalized babies and 10 caregivers of hospitalized babies also participated in this study. The…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers
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Mary K. Fagan – Urban Education, 2024
Access to books and storybook reading contribute to children's language, literacy and academic development. Homeless children often experience delays in these areas of development; however, their access to books and storybook reading is understudied. This study of 24 children in a family homeless shelter and 27 housed children in the same urban…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Access to Education, Story Telling, Story Reading
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Annalynn M. Galvin; Idara N. Akpan; Melissa A. Lewis; Scott T. Walters; Erika L. Thompson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Reproductive interconception care provided at maternal postpartum visits may help reduce unintended pregnancies and elongate birth intervals for women experiencing homelessness. To improve interconception care uptake, this qualitative study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to reproductive interconception care from the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Females, Adults, Homeless People, Birth
Ali M. Alodat; Marcia Gentry; Hyeseong Lee – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
Exceptionally talented refugee students are often underrepresented in allocating to gifted programs because of inadequate identification methods in Arab countries. This study investigates the Arabic version of the Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence (HOPE) Scale for identifying gifted refugee students. Students (n = 13,598) from refugee camp…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Refugees, Identification, Arabic