Articles for the Topic "Rural Issues"

Ending Family Homelessness in Rural America

2009-01-21T04:15:45

Workshop speakers discussed the unique set of challenges faced by rural communities and the specific response to the problem of family homelessness. These presentations to the National Alliance to End Homelessness examine promising models, effective strategies, and how rural communities can use existing service systems to respond to the issue of family homelessness.

Exploring Rural Homelessness

2009-01-21T04:25:44

Speakers on this audio conference discuss the successes and challenges for planners and other stakeholders involved in or considering plans to end and prevent homelessness. This audio conference focuses on critical barriers and innovative solutions to the unique nature and conditions of selected rural communities.

Homeless Children: Addressing the Challenge in Rural Schools

2009-01-21T04:46:36

This ERIC Digest considers the challenge of homelessness in rural areas, the meaning of homelessness for rural children, the educational problems of homelessness, causes of rural homelessness, and remedies and resources for rural educators and human service providers.

Homelessness in Rural America

2009-01-21T04:34:00

This Web site discusses the similarities and differences between urban and rural homelessness, the prevalence of rural homelessness, current Federal Government response, and some solutions to obstacles to overcoming rural homelessness.

Homelessness: Breaking the Cycle of Transiency

2009-01-21T04:41:47

In part one of the series “Close to Homeless,” David Sommerstein of North Country Public radio reports on a family in Dickinson Center in Franklin County, New York who have experienced the most persistent kind of rural homelessness: chronic transiency.

Obtaining and Leveraging Rural Resources

2009-01-21T04:20:27

This session presented to the National Alliance to End Homelessness examined how creative local partnerships can help bring needed services and funding to the issue of rural homelessness in small town America.

Poverty, Housing Insecurity and Student Transiency in Rural Areas

2009-01-21T04:48:56

This article, published by the Center on Rural Education and Communities at PSU, discusses the issue of residential mobility among low-income households and its effect on students, schools, and school districts. It provides a suggested plan of action for supporting highly mobile students for rural schools and school districts and links to additional resources.

Recovery Starts with Strengths

2010-10-22T12:13:23

Jeff Irving is a Peer Support Specialist who prefers to be called a person rather than a consumer. He is dedicated to supporting others through their own journeys through recovery. Jeff shares his perspectives on recovery and the role of peer support with the HRC’s Wendy Grace Evans.

Rural Homelessness (Audio Commentary)

2009-01-21T04:43:10

Commentator Jill Vaughan shares her observations and first-hand experiences with some of the problems associated with near-homelessness in her own life. She also discusses her work with some of the hardest cases of chronic homelessness in Franklin County.

Rural Homelessness Counts (audio)

2009-01-21T10:44:03

Since 2003, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care Application has required communities to do point-in-time counts of the people who are homeless (sheltered and unsheltered) every 2 years in the last week of January. The next count will be held in January 2009. This audio conference provides national and local viewpoints on practical strategies and lessons learned about improved data quality and overcoming challenges faced while doing point-in-time counts in rural communities.

Rural Homelessness National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) Fact Sheet #11

2009-01-21T04:01:03

This fact sheet provides definitions and demographics, causes, policy issues, and additional resources for understanding rural homelessness.

Rural Homelessness: the RHISCO Project

2009-01-21T04:22:38

This half-day institute offered information on how to create a rural plan, strategies that work in rural areas, and how to cultivate partnerships in rural areas. The workshop highlighted the achievements in the first year of the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Rural Homeless Initiative of Southeast and Central Ohio (RHISCO). Speakers highlighted lessons learned and provided strategies for improving planning to end homelessness in rural communities.

Rural Housing and Rural Homelessness FAQs

2009-01-21T04:28:36

This Web site provides frequently asked questions in reference to housing and homelessness, including questions about available resources, housing needs, and causes of rural homelessness.

Rural Housing Data Portal

2009-01-21T04:52:37

The information provided in this database derives from Housing Assistance Council tabulations of several public use data sets including the Census Bureau’s Census 2000, the Census Bureau’s Census 2005 Population Estimates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics, the Census Bureau’s 2003 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the Census Bureau’s Census 2004 Housing Unit Estimates, and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s 2004 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data.

Rural Kids, Homeless in the Big City

2009-01-21T04:44:43

Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio spent a night on the streets of Montreal, Canada. He shares the story of what it is like for young people from rural areas who wind up homeless on the streets of big cities.

Spotlight: MATCHed for Success

2011-04-04T11:34:54

Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and Center Inc.’s Modified Assertive Treatment for Co-Occurring Homeless, MATCH, program of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was awarded a SAMHSA treatment for the homeless grant on September 30, 2006. MATCH addresses a significant treatment void of the rural, geographically isolated East Tennessee Appalachian homeless population with co-occurring disorders. By implementing individualized, community-based, integrated treatment services that are linked with a seamless referral system to housing and employment programs, MATCH hopes to serve 330 people during the course of its five-year grant.

Strategies for Ending Rural Homelessness

2009-01-21T04:24:18

A service provider speaks about how to create a rapid re-housing program in a rural community and answers the question, “Is rapid re-housing in rural areas possible?” This audio conference examines why it’s important to engage partners and where to find affordable housing resources.

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research “Rural Homelessness”

2009-01-21T04:58:16

For the 1998 Symposium on Homelessness Research, rural homelessness was not assigned as a paper topic in its own right. Because of its increasing significance, the authors prepared a paper on rural homelessness for the 2007 symposium. Given the somewhat limited formal research available, the authors supplemented their literature review with information from government documents and technical assistance materials as well as input from an expert panel of researchers and practitioners. The paper summarizes what is documented to date about the characteristics of people who are homeless in rural areas and examines whether rural homelessness and the service approaches to address it can be differentiated from urban homelessness. The authors identify gaps in current knowledge about rural homelessness and recommend new directions for research.