Homeless and Vulnerable Meal Program Users: A Comparison Study

Sosin, Michael R.

doi:10.1525/sp.1992.39.2.03x0054b

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“…For example, women were most likely to have seen health providers (through such interventions) during the previous year (Rosengard, Chambers, Tulsky, Long, & Chesney, 2006), Colson (1990) found that younger participants were greater service utilizers than older participants and previous use of services predicts future use (cf. Anderson et al, 1993;Colson, 1990;Sosin, 1992).…”

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Evidence That Theory of Planned Behaviour Variables Mediate the Effects of Socio-demographic Variables on Homeless People's Participation in Service Programmes

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This article reports findings from two studies (N = 88, N = 100) using Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to predict homeless people's uptake of service programmes. Study 1 was conducted with an opportunity sample whereas Study 2 employed a representative sample. Both studies provide support for the application of the TPB, and demonstrate that the effects of demographic characteristics on behaviour were mediated by TPB variables. The discussion focuses on the role of attitudinal and normative components in actual behaviour, and on the potential role of social normative processes and stigmatization in homeless people's uptake of services.

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“…Second and more speculatively, since past studies link service receipt to the attainment or maintenance of a domicile, it is possible that the differences in service use located here may be linked to the extent to which clients in the various types of programs regain a domicile: studies show that some professional service programs are effective (Bruni 1997), that provision of welfare benefits or similar resources through advocacy helps adults to escape homelessness and maintain dwellings (Sosin 1992;Wong 1997), and that a specific type of employment program, albeit, one that may not be available to many clients, also is an escape route (Becker and Drake 2003). Of course, this evidence is not definitive.…”

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“…Control variables represent client personal traits, predilections, and situations that are plausible correlates of both service use 3 and residence in one or more of the types of housing (Wong 1997;Sosin 1992). In particular, the control variables measure client age, gender, race, and ethnicity, whether the client has children with them, the total months spent homeless over the clients lifetime, percent of time the client worked in the last two years, years of alcohol problems, years of use of illegal drugs, existence of a chronic health problem, the availability of resources from members of the social network and the number of days spent in the housing program at the time of the interview.…”

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Social services in interim housing programs and shelters

Sosin

George

Grossman

2012

Housing Policy Debate

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This study investigates the effectiveness in delivering social services of interim housing programs compared to shelters. Interim housing programs represent a new approach to housing and serving homeless adults, one which provides emergency housing in apartment-like units, and in which use of services is voluntary. Shelters tend to provide congregate care and to expect or rely on clients to access needed services in order to secure resources required to obtain housing. Analyses of original survey data, which correct for sample selection utilizing propensity scores, suggest that clients in interim housing programs obtain more professional, advocacy, and employment services than do clients in shelters. This differential service use is found to reflect not client incentives, but the service offerings and referrals made by the programs. In general, the findings suggest that interim housing programs hold particular promise in service rich environments. They also suggest that program contingencies are more important than certain individual client incentives in affecting service use. Finally, the results begin to suggest the value of this new, interim housing-based approach.

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“…First, emergency food distribution is only one of several service activities in which congregations may engage, and this type of service activity may have particular characteristics, such as fleeting contact with clients, that affect our findings. Second, the homeless are a special population, often with multiple problems other than poverty, including mental health and addiction issues (Blankertz & Cnann, 1994;Klein & Cnaan, 1995;Sosin, 1981Sosin, , 1992. Although these two qualifications rightfully place constraints on the generalizability of our findings, our choice of investigative location also has analogous benefits.…”

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Serving Up Sermons

Sager

Stephens

2005

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The authors use participant observation and interviews with homeless individuals to investigate two questions: How are religious elements that occur in congregation-based food programs integrated into service delivery? How are those elements, especially sermons, perceived by those who eat there? The authors find that regardless of their religious beliefs, two thirds of the homeless respondents reacted negatively to the sermons they heard at congregation-based food programs, characterizing them as coercive, hypocritical, condescending, and conflicting with their own beliefs. Observations at these programs shed light on the source of these negative reactions: The sermons tend to ignore the local knowledge and experience of clients, and they assume that the homeless individuals are responsible for their own troubles.

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Homeless and Vulnerable Meal Program Users: A Comparison Study

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Evidence That Theory of Planned Behaviour Variables Mediate the Effects of Socio-demographic Variables on Homeless People's Participation in Service Programmes

Evidence That Theory of Planned Behaviour Variables Mediate the Effects of Socio-demographic Variables on Homeless People's Participation in Service Programmes

Social services in interim housing programs and shelters

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