Psychosocial differences between Mexican girls at risk of homelessness and those unsheltered, sheltered or emergency sheltered

Castaños-Cervantes, Susana; Turnbull, Bernardo; Aguilar-Villalobos, Javier

doi:10.1080/17450128.2017.1367111

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“…Previous studies focused on this topic have had limitations. For instance, previous studies have focused on speci c populations (e.g., unsheltered homeless only (13), Mexican girls (14), women (11), or veterans (15)), did not include unstably housed people, or did not examine health behaviors or health service utilization. Further examination of these topics is needed to identify better ways to address health risk factors and improve health in this population.…”

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Unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults have higher levels of stress and more health risk factors than sheltered homeless adults

Karen¹,

Hébert

Alexander³

et al. 2021

Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness

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Background: In the United States, approximately 568,000 individuals are homeless on a single night. Homelessness can be categorized into three subgroups: sheltered homeless, unsheltered homeless, and unstably housed. Few studies have examined the relations between homelessness subtypes, shelter service utilization, levels of stress experienced, and health risk factors. This study aimed to empirically examine whether shelter status the previous night was related to current stress, recent utilization of shelter-based mental health services, and current health risk factors. Methods: Data were collected at multiple homeless shelters in 2016 in the Oklahoma City area (N=575). All participants completed assessments of demographic characteristics, including age, sex, race, marital status, years of education, and incarceration history and victimization. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine relations between homelessness subgroups and outcomes (shelter-based service utilization, health risk factors, and stressors).Results: Results indicated that the sheltered group was younger and more likely to be White than the unsheltered group, had higher levels of education, and reported more lifetime months in jail than the unstably housed group. In addition, unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults used fewer shelter-based health services, exhibited more health risk factors, experienced greater levels of stress, and had higher levels of food insecurity than sheltered homeless adults.Conclusion: Homeless adults who reside at shelters bene t most from available shelter services. The development of policies and programs targeted toward increasing sheltering options for unsheltered and unstably housed adults is needed.

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confidence: 99%

Unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults have higher levels of stress and more health risk factors than sheltered homeless adults

Karen¹,

Hébert

Alexander³

et al. 2021

Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness

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Sheltered homeless adults use more shelter services, have fewer health risk factors, and report lower stress than unsheltered adults

Karen

Hébert

Alexander

et al. 2020

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Background: In the United States, approximately 568,000 individuals are homeless on a single night. Homelessness can be categorized into three subgroups: sheltered homeless, unsheltered homeless, and unstably housed. Few studies have examined the relations between homelessness subtypes, shelter service utilization, levels of stress experienced, and health risk factors. Methods: Data were collected at multiple homeless shelters in 2016 in the Oklahoma City area (N=575). Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine relations between homelessness subgroups and outcomes.Results: Results indicated that the sheltered group was younger and more likely to be White than the unsheltered group, and had higher levels of education than the unstably housed group. In addition, unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults used fewer shelter-based health services, exhibited more health risk factors, experienced greater levels of stress, and had higher levels of food insecurity than sheltered homeless adults.Conclusions: Homeless adults who reside at shelters benefit most from available shelter services. The development of policies and programs targeted toward increasing sheltering options for unsheltered and unstably housed adults is needed.

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Young Adults with Lived Foster Care Experience Who Later Experience Houselessness: an Exploratory Latent Class Analysis

Orsi

Clemens

Thibodeau

et al. 2023

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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Young adults with lived experience in out-of-home care during childhood report later experiences of housing instability as common. Existing literature identifies a host of factors compounding an individual’s risk of experiencing houselessness, but research has yet to explore constellations of characteristics which describe youth formerly in care who later become unhoused. This exploratory study leverages a public–private data linkage collaborative to integrate and de-identify child welfare data extracted from a Rocky Mountain state’s administrative database and houselessness service utilization data from a regional provider in a large metro area of the state. Linkage and sampling yielded a final sample of 285 youth (ages 18 to 24) formerly in foster care who accessed houselessness services between December 2018 and March 2020 and who had signed required consents. A 22-measure latent class analysis identified three characteristic groups: intensive youth corrections involvement and emancipation from the child welfare system (32% of sample); family-based challenges, neglect, and more moderate youth corrections involvement (41% of sample); and youth behavior and substance use challenges along with family reunification before accessing houselessness services (26%). We found that young women and Black, Indigenous, and people of color were disproportionately represented in the sample compared to the state’s population of youth in out-of-home care. Youth with long histories of child welfare placement were a majority of the sample. Implications are discussed. Data-sharing barriers must be addressed to facilitate further research aimed at understanding houselessness within this population.

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Psychosocial differences between Mexican girls at risk of homelessness and those unsheltered, sheltered or emergency sheltered

Cited by 7 publications

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Unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults have higher levels of stress and more health risk factors than sheltered homeless adults

Unsheltered homeless and unstably housed adults have higher levels of stress and more health risk factors than sheltered homeless adults

Sheltered homeless adults use more shelter services, have fewer health risk factors, and report lower stress than unsheltered adults

Young Adults with Lived Foster Care Experience Who Later Experience Houselessness: an Exploratory Latent Class Analysis

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