How does the concept of “resilience” help our understanding of service outcomes among different homeless sub-populations? The six journal articles below discuss the experience of homelessness among different sub-populations in the context of “resilience”. Read two of the articles on the list and prepare a brief, 250-word, or half page single spaced paper that identifies the “risk” and “vulnerability” factors that you believe to be most influential in determining service outcomes for each population reviewed. Ask, what are the resiliency factors that impact on service outcomes? Are these factors the same for each sub-population or are they somehow different? Are the various environmental or contextual issues surrounding their homelessness the same or different and how do the contribute to the variation of outcomes? What might some of the implications be for future program design or policy initiatives? After submitting your response, provide a comment with feedback to at least two of your classmates. Pick any two of the ones below: How is the notion of “resiliency” used to explore the experience of homelessness by different sub-populations? Read any two of the following articles for this week’s discussion forum: Homelessness and Resilience (adults) Meeting the needs of young families experiencing homelessness Risk and resilience in homeless children Homeless Young Adults: Strengths and Resilience From trauma to resiliency among homeless runaway youth Capabilities and resiliency among single homeless people Vulnerability factors with homeless veterans (study). Required Readings: What is “self-suficiency” in the context of homeless services? How is “self-sufficiency” measured? (HUD PowerPoint presentation for training on the “self-sufficiency” matrix) How is “vulnerability” measured? What is the VI-SPDAT? – Decision Assistance Tool What is resiliency? Summary of performance measures with questions for the assessment of emergency shelter services and homeless support services (Performance Measures for Emergency Shelter and Support Services Program Evaluation- UNE -Sample .doc ) Performance Assessment for emergency shelter services and homeless support services (SFH Annual Dashboard- 2013- 11.20.14 – Revised.docx ) Multimedia: Factors associated with health vulnerabilities among street homeless population (Time 3:33 mins) –Transcript Use listed readings as cited resources
