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Housing & Child Welfare
Information on housing issues and programs for families and youth receiving child welfare services.
National Center for Housing and Child Welfare
National Center for Housing and Child Welfare (2010)
Bridges the gap between affordable housing and child welfare to improve the lives of America's most economically disadvantaged youth and families. The center also works to ensure that each young person who faces adulthood without the support of a permanent family has a plan for housing and services to support them in adulthood.
Family Unification Vouchers
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Information on how to apply for family unification vouchers, which provide rental subsidies to families with children who have been placed, or are at risk of placement, in foster care primarily because the family lacks adequate housing.
Completing the Circle of Care: Alternative Housing at Hope Meadows (PDF - 1648 KB)
Generations of Hope Development Corporation (2010)
Examines the possibility of alternative housing for seniors in an intergenerational community designed to support families who have adopted children from foster care.
The Effect of Recession on Child Well-Being: A Synthesis of the Evidence by PolicyLab, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (PDF - 1677 KB)
First Focus, Foundation for Child Development, & PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2010)
Synthesizes evidence of the effects of recession on child well-being. Examines four domains—health, food security, housing stability, and maltreatment—and reviews the relationship of each to the well-being of children during recessions, past and present.
Family Unification Program: Serving Homeless and At-Risk Homeless Families and Youth (PDF - 543 KB)
Strengthening At Risk and Homeless Young Mothers and Children (2009)
Explains the intersection of homelessness and child welfare, and highlights a program that provides housing choice vouchers to communities to help preserve and reunify families in the child welfare system and assist in the transition of youth aging out of care. Components of the program are described, as well as findings from an evaluation of the program that investigated the impact of the program on homeless families with children.
From Poverty to Child Welfare Involvement: The Critical Role of Housing in Family Stability (PDF - 109 KB)
Torrico
Children, Youth and Families Practice Update, 2009
Explains the challenges families living in or near poverty face in meeting their children's basic needs, the incidence of homelessness, and the correlation between child maltreatment, and inadequate housing and homelessness.
Is Supportive Housing a Cost-Effective Means of Preserving Families and Increasing Child Safety?: Cost Analysis of CSH's Keeping Families Together Pilot (PDF - 339 KB)
Corporation for Supportive Housing (2011)
Findings from Metis Associates' evaluation of the Keeping Families Together pilot were used to compare the cost of the supportive housing intervention with the cost of the reductions in public service use. The study examined the costs associated with the families' use of foster care services and homeless shelters in the 2 years before and 2 years following families' placement into Keeping Families Together.
Rescuing Children and Punishing Poor Families: Housing Related Decisions
Shdaimah
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 36(3), 2009
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Reports data from a qualitative study exploring perceptions of child welfare professionals about housing-related child welfare decisions.
Strengthening the Tie That Binds: Project Keeps Families Under One Roof
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2003)
Results from grants given under the Family Unification Program, which provides rent subsidies to low-income families who were in danger of being split up or whose children were unable to return to their parents because of housing problems.
Supportive Housing for Families in Child Welfare: Client Characteristics and Their Outcomes at Discharge
Farrell, Britner, Guzzardo, & Goodrich
Children and Youth Services Review, 32(2), 2010
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Describes client characteristics, progress, and outcomes at discharge from a Supportive Family Housing (SFH) program. Provides initial endorsement for the SHF model and makes suggestions for program practice, future research, and policy.