Full Description
Take your knowledge of the needs of the rural homeless to the next level
This groundbreaking text examines research methodologies for studying the homeless, rural homeless policy, and the lives of today's rural homeless. It gives a thorough overview of the issues faced by this unique sector and outlines specific avenues for further research. The authors' insightful data analysis, real life findings, and specific case examples offer useful and research-based approaches to improve the difficult situation of the rural homeless, using a family health approach well suited to addressing the issues that affect them.
Since services for the homeless are most often located in cities, the rural homeless are at a physical disadvantage. Because they are unable to utilize the services provided for the urban homeless, their needs often go unmet. Researchers and social service professionals face the same dilemma. Homelessness in Rural America addresses these issues by making vital research techniques, difficult-to-find data, and strategies for practice easy to access, understand, and put to use.
Homelessness in Rural America: Policy and Programs examines:
the current condition of the rural homeless
factors that can increase the probability of a rural individual becoming homeless
the influence of welfare programs on the rural homeless
issues faced by the rural homeless and how a family health approach can treat these issues
the research methodology used to study the rural homeless
micro- and macro-level solutions to rural homeless problems
Students and educators will benefit from Homelessness in Rural America's micro- and macro-level approaches to intervention. Policy planners will discover the further complications that have arisen from welfare programs. As the homeless population continues to increase, Homelessness in Rural America becomes even more essential. The rural homeless are often overlooked in the social sciences literature, and this book fills that void with its rare and well-organized information.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Rural Homelessness in America
Social and Economic Factors
Patterns and Characteristics of the Homeless: A Review of the Literature
Causes Remain Undefined
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Current Policy and Programs for the Homeless
Emergency Service Providers
Transitional Service Providers
Policy and Programs
The Role of Federal and State Government
Conclusion
Chapter 3. An Exploration of Homeless People and Families Living in a Rural Setting
Triangulation
Homeless Service Provider Context
The Service Hub Concept
Data
Conclusion
Chapter 4. An Analysis of the Findings for the Rural Homeless
Demographic Characteristics of the Sample
Disability and the Rural Homeless
Family Violence and the Rural Homeless
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Family Health and the Rural Homeless
Conceptual Basis of Family Health
Research and Family Health
Family Policy in the United States
Barriers to Family Policy
A Model Family Policy
Family Health and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Family Health Policy and the Rural Homeless
A Model Family Policy Supporting the Rural Homeless
Conclusion
References
Index
