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The importance of stable housing in social capital development and utilisation: How homelessness undermines reciprocity, recognition, and autonomy
This study developed a framework for conceptualising the relationship between stable housing and social capital.
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“The chaos of not knowing”: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation
In this case study, address how public housing residents experience redevelopment, with particular emphasis on the temporal, physical and embodied mental experience of “waiting” for housing in a community undergoing radical transformation.
JAMA Network Open
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Continued homelessness and depressive symptoms in older adults
This cohort study examined the association between residential status and depressive symptoms in adults aged 50 years or older experiencing homelessness at study entry, with data collected 2013-2023.
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Mental skills training for youth experiencing multiple disadvantage
This narrative review synthesizes literature to explain the need for MST, how it works, and evidence to support it works by focusing on two well evaluated programmes: LifeMatters and My Strengths Training for Life.
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Social isolation and loneliness among people living with experience of homelessness: A scoping review
The aim of this scoping review is to synthesize evidence on SIL among people with lived experience of homelessness and explore how it negatively impacts their wellbeing.
Primary care
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“Just a knife wound this week, nothing too painful”: An ethnographic exploration of how primary care patients experiencing homelessness view their own health and healthcare
Community health needs assessments (CHNA) involving qualitative techniques help tailor health services to the specific needs of the population groups for whom they are designed. This study used an ethnographic approach grounded in a social constructivist research paradigm to explore the perspectives of PEH attending a primary care and addiction service in Ireland on their priority health and healthcare needs.
Social and emotional learning journal
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In parents’ words: Reflections on the social-emotional health system for young children experiencing homelessness
Even when high-quality, evidence-based social-emotional supports and services are available, accessing them can be challenging, confusing, or impossible for some families, especially for families experiencing homelessness.
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Exploring the Factors of Recidivism From the Perspectives of Homeless Former Prisoners, Government Agency Officers, and Volunteers
The ongoing involvement of homeless former prisoners in crime raises questions about involvement factors. Failure to reintegrate into society frequently results in homeless former prisoners becoming re-involved in crime. In this research, 30 homeless former prisoners, nine Malaysian government agency officers, and nine volunteers were interviewed in this study.
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