Resources

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These resources can be assigned as homework, used for classroom content and provided to students interested in learning more.

Authored or co-authored by me:

A Case Study Using Shame Resilience Theory: Walking Each Other Home

A case study about a woman experiencing homelessness and her battle with the sense of shame she found in that experience. Available via academic access.

being a social worker in a time of social distancing

A blog post (NCEHS) about the experience of working with those experiencing homelessness during the COVID- 19 pandemic.

Looking Past Parking Lots: Socially Just Interventions for Our Homeless Neighbors During COVID-19

A magazine article about the utilization of hotels as temporary placement for those experiencing homelessness during COVID-19.

Teaching Students About Homelessness: A Model for Curriculum Integration (Pending publication)

An article that provides high, medium, and low effort models for incorporating homelessness into social work curriculum. This article is pending publication in the Journal of Social Work Education.

Books

20 Years at Hull House

This book, written by Jane Addams, explores poverty and housing insecurity during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Curricular Guide for addressing homelessness

An extensive guide (with additional reading material) for exploring homelessness as it pertains to each of the nine social work educational competencies.

Homelessness Prevention and Intervention in Social Work

A textbook detailing policy, programs, and practices for working with people experiencing homelessness.

For kids (of all ages)

I see you

A children's book that explores the issue of invisibility of the homeless experience. Excellent place to start for all ages.

Saturday at the food pantry

A children's book depicting a family on a trip to their local food pantry, reminding us all that "everyone needs help sometimes."

Video

Poor kids

A Frontline PBS Special is looking at the lives of children growing up in poverty and struggling with housing issues.

Websites

The National Center for excellence in homelessness Services

"A consortium of schools of social work that collaborates with providers, policymakers, and other social work programs to strengthen services that transform the lives of all homeless children and adults" (NCEHS).

Grand Challenges for Social Work

The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) identifies "Grand Challenges," including ending homelessness. Future social workers must understand and rise to this challenge.

Blog

Identifying Opportunities to Teach Students about Homelessness

A blog post highlighting the need to include homelessness topics in social work classrooms and some ideas about how to begin.

Invisible People

A blog dedicated to educating the public about homelessness. They "hope you will get mad enough to do something."

Strategies to End Homelessness

A blog that aims to prevent, assist and solve homelessness.

House the Homeless

The mission of the orgainzation and blog is education and advocacy around the issues of ending and preventing homelessness.

References

Definitions from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development