Permanent Supportive Housing Evaluating the Evidence for Improving Health Outcomes Among People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness (2018) / Chapter Skim
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6 Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on Families and Youth
6 Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on Families and Youth
Pages 95-103
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by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD, 2016b) to Congress, there are nearly 123,000 PSH beds for people in families in the United States, 36 percent of the total PSH stock available across populations, and 30 percent of the total bed count in homeless programs serving families.
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health outcomes in homeless women in the United States and across the globe. The authors found that most interventions comprised education sessions in group settings that aimed to improve individuals' knowledge about risk-taking sexual behavior and ways to mitigate physical abuse within domestic violence situations.
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Analyses were on an intent-to-treat basis, including all families offered a particular intervention, irrespective of the type of housing they actually took up. Offers of housing subsidies dramatically reduced homelessness and doubling up with other households because the family could not find or afford a place of their own at both the 20-month and the 37-month follow-up points; offers of transitional housing decreased homelessness more modestly during the period when some families remained in transitional housing programs; and offers of rapid re-housing led families to leave shelter more quickly but had no other effect on housing outcomes.
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Over the 37month period, families in the permanent housing subsidy group cost only 9 percent more than usual care, because costs of the subsidies were offset by greater costs for shelter and transitional housing programs in the usual-care group. One criticism of the study is that, because of low program take-up among families offered transitional housing (53 percent)
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Youth ages 18 to 21 who left foster care after age 15 are also eligible. A small experiment in Chicago randomized families who were enrolled in a Housing and Cash Assistance Program designed to prevent family separation due solely to living circumstances to additionally receive FUP vouchers or not (Fowler and Chavira, 2014)
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. In the much larger Family Options Study, where families were not selected for child welfare risk, offers of permanent housing subsidies, without additional services, reduced child separations at the 20-month follow-up from 16.9 percent in the usual-care group to 9.8 percent in the group receiving subsidies and more than halved foster care placements (5.0 percent versus 1.9 percent)
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. The McKinneyVento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 applies to students eligible for public education services under state and federal law and defines unaccompanied youth as "those who are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian" (42 U.S.C.
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showed that nearly 5 percent of youth experiencing homelessness had been in foster care prior to their first homeless episode. Study participants who reported being in foster care also had significantly longer periods of time being homeless when compared to their non-foster care peers.
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. CONCLUSIONS A convening of experts by the HUD concluded that "considerable research supports targeting permanent supportive housing to those who experience chronic homelessness," (HUD, 2015a, p.
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