227 research outputs found
A picture is worth…?: photo-elicitation interviewing with formerly homeless adults
No full textWe report on the use of photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) with 13 participants in a qualitative study of formerly homeless men and women with serious mental illness. Following a respondentcontrolled approach, participants were asked to take up to 18 photographs visually portraying positive and negative aspects of their lives and to subsequently narrate the meaning of the photos in a one-on-one interview. Thematic analysis of the photos (N = 205) revealed two approaches to PEI: (a) a “slice of life” and (b) “then vs. now.” Examples show how PEIs yielded deeper, more elaborate accounts of participants’ lives compared to earlier verbal-only interviews. Participants spoke of the benefits of PEI and preferred taking positive as opposed to negative photographs depicting their lives. Implications of PEI as a means of complementing verbal-only data are discussed. By moving away from predetermined content and meaning, respondent-controlled PEIs enhance empowerment and enable creativity.Peer reviewe
Moving on from permanent supportive housing: implementation and outcomes of the New York City Moving On Initiative
No full textThis report summarizes findings from an observational study of the New York City 2015 Moving On Initiative (MOI). The New York City Moving On initiative (MOI) launched in October 2015. The goal of this initiative was “to reinforce supportive housing tenant independence and choice by enabling residents who are capable and interested in doing so to leave supportive housing” (CSH, 2020a, p. 1). The initiative was led and managed by the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and funded by the Robin Hood Foundation. CSH selected five permanent supportive housing (PSH) agencies to participate in the MOI via a Request for Proposals. Selected agencies were provided with a limited amount of funding to support dedicated staff time in helping residents during and after the move, and to cover costs associated with locating housing and moving. PSH residents from these programs were given the opportunity to apply for one of 125 tenant-based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers administered by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). To determine PSH residents’ capacity to move on, individuals who applied were assessed using the NYC Moving On Initiative 2015 Household Assessment (CSH, 2020b). In addition to a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, residents were provided with assistance from PSH case managers in the lead up to the move and for a minimum of six months after the move to support their transition in the community. The five participating PSH programs each developed their own strategies for the provision of preparatory, transition, and aftercare services, according to the CSH Program Profile (CSH, 2020a). The scope of work for the MOI stated that preparation services could include financial literacy education/assistance, credit rating assessment/improvement, and assistance with Section 8 voucher application and identifying apartments in the community. Transition services offered had to include assistance with locating and securing the housing unit, case management to support the transition including but not limited to assistance building linkages to community supports and services, such as mental and physical health services, substance use treatment, stores for groceries and other necessities, recreational activities and public transportation options, and support with landlord negotiations. Transition services could also include assistance with family reunification, as well as funds to cover broker fees, moving costs, utility deposits/arrears, and furniture/household items. Following the move, providers were required to offer voluntary aftercare support for at least six months after the move and to maintain contact with the person for at least the first six months after move-out, with a minimum of two check-ins that could either be in-person, by phone or by email. The aims of this study were:
1) To capture Moving On recipient outcomes regarding quality of life, health and recovery, community integration, service utilization, and housing stability;
2) To describe Moving On program implementation processes and experiences within and across the five different Moving On provider agencies; and
3) To identify the individual-, program- and system-level barriers to and facilitators of successful transition of tenants from PSH programs to independent living in the community.
This report describes MOI recipient outcomes following the move from PSH over a twoyear period. Reports detailing the qualitative and program implementation-related analyses, as well as other analyses conducted with these study data thus far, are listed in the Appendix.This is an unpublished final report that I would like to upload to SOAR for a doi. The funder (Oak Foundation) has approved of this upload
Lotka' s Law, Co-authorship and Interdisciplinary Publishing
No full textThe robustness or breakdown of Lotka's law about the frequency distribution of scientific productivity depends on scientific cooperation, counting methods, interdisciplinary publishing and selection methods for sample collections. We have chosen to analyse the relationship using Mandelbrot's equivalent distribution model because this model is sensitive and uses the original data (scores). Five sets of authors and publications, the two sets used by Lotka, a set from High Energy Physics, a set from Microbiology and a set based on applicants to a research programme promoting young researchers have been used. It is shown that even for a sample of authors in High-Energy Physics with extremely strong co-authorship, Mandelbrot's distribution law is robust when complete-normalized (fractional) counting is used whereas complete counting results in a breakdown. In the field of Microbiology with much weaker cooperation, both counting methods result in a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law. Today a field like Microbiology with the corresponding set of journals, probably has a large content of interdisciplinary publishing and therefore no more fulfills the precondition of Lotka's law, that the total production of the authors (sources) is considered. For a set of applicants for the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation. Mandelbrot's law breaks down despite the fact that all publications co-authored by the applicants are taken into account. In agreement with Bayes' theorem of conditional probabilities these results lead to the conjecture that any selection process of authors and/or publications causes a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law and, as a consequence Lotka's law
"We always think you're here permanently": the paradox of "permanent" housing and other barriers to recovery-oriented practice in supportive housing services
No full textThis qualitative study examines the views and practices of frontline providers working in supportive housing for adults with serious mental illness and how frontline workers understand their work as it relates to consumer mental health recovery. Utilizing 84 interviews with providers (N=35) and 106 hours of observations of provider practice, a grounded theory of frontline practice in supportive housing is provided. Analyses revealed distinct differences between providers working within transitional versus permanent housing programs in their orientation to recovery. Implications for the design of the supportive housing continuum of care are discussed.Peer reviewe
Transcending Borders through Language: The Poetry and Craft of Emmy Pérez
No full textEmmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate of 2020, has lived in the Texas borderlands for 24 years. She is the author of the poetry collections With the River on Our Face (University of Arizona Press) and Solstice (Swan Scythe Press). Her latest collection, Paper America: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from TCU Press in 2025. Copies of With the River on Our Face will be available for purchase after the reading
TV in Cuba: The medium has a message
No full textPublished in: Emmy Magazine, 198?, pp. 53-4, 70.
Article is unavailable in digital format from publisher
"The apartment is for you, it’s not for anyone else": managing social recovery and risk on the frontlines of single-adult supportive housing
No full textThis multi-method qualitative study examines frontline provider perspectives on consumer social relationships and barriers to social recovery in supportive housing programs for adults with serious mental illness. Thematic analyses show that guest and occupancy policies that enforce the "single" nature of single-adult supportive housing challenge consumer rights to self-determination in the realm of social recovery. Findings also highlight the ways in which providers act to reinforce and subvert these policies while mitigating risk in this service setting. Recommendations for enhancing the recovery orientation of supportive housing and implications for the design of the homeless service system are discussed.Peer reviewe
"I achieved being an adult": a qualitative exploration of voluntary transitions from permanent supportive housing
No full textThis study examined how individuals voluntarily leaving permanent supportive housing (PSH) through a Moving On initiative experienced the transition from PSH services to mainstream housing. Participants (N = 25) were purposively sampled from five supportive housing agencies in a Moving On initiative. A modified grounded theory approach was used to analyze semi-structured, post-move interviews. Participants described the transition from PSH as a process that involved gaining freedom from negative aspects of the PSH environment and a stagnation in services, adjusting to a new environment and the loss of familiar supports, taking on new responsibilities of self-advocacy and managing new financial burdens, and feeling empowered to move on to next steps, which ultimately, led to achievement of independence. Various contextual conditions, including PSH- and postmove housing type, influenced participants’ experience of this process. Findings can inform future Moving On initiatives, implementation of PSH programs, as well as the design of the larger homeless service system.Peer reviewe
Stakeholder perspectives on implementation challenges and strategies for Moving On Initiatives in permanent supportive housing
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A qualitative analysis of case managers’ use of harm reduction in practice
No full textThe harm reduction approach has become a viable framework within the field of addictions, yet there is limited understanding about how this approach is implemented in practice. For people who are homeless and have co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, the Housing First model has shown promising results in employing such an approach. This qualitative study utilizes ethnographic methods to explore case managers’ use of harm reduction within Housing First with a specific focus on the consumer-provider relationship. Analysis of observational data and in-depth interviews with providers and consumers revealed how communication between the two regarding the consumer’s substance use interacted with the consumer -provider relationship. From these findings emerged a heuristic model of harm reduction practice that highlighted the profound influence of relationship quality on the paths of communication regarding substance use. This study provides valuable insight into how harm reduction is implemented in clinical practice that ultimately has public health implications in terms of more effectively addressing high rates of addiction that contribute to homelessness and health disparities.Peer reviewe
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