Research and Resources

 

  General Homelessness Research:

City of Sydney Homelessness Research Page

Common Ground Innovations Research Institute

Ending Chronic Homelessness: Cost-Effective Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration
Dennis Culhane

Housing First Services for People Who Are Homeless With
Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Deborah K. Padgett,Leyla Gulcur and Sam Tsemberis

Mercy Foundation Research

Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and its alternatives
Dennis Culhane and Stephen Metraux

Rough Living

Tackling Homelessness in Los Angeles' Skid Row: The role of Policing Strategies and the Spatial Deconcentration of Homelessness
Dennis Culhane

To Fight Homelessness, Turn Project 50 into Project 10,000
Dennis Culhane

Tools for Identifying High Needs, High Costs Homeless Persons
Economic Roundtable: Daniel Flaming, Michael Matsunaga, and Patrick Burns





The Vulnerability Index:

A Public Health Approach to reducing morbidity and mortality among homeless people in Boston(2005)
Dr Jim O'Connell

City of Sydney 90 homes, 90 Lives

The Need for Homelessness Prevention: a Doctor's view of life and death on the streets
Dr Jim O'Connell

Micah Projects 50 Homes 50 Lives fact Sheet

100,000 Homes Campaign


Links:

Australian:

Brisbane Homelessness Services Centre

City of Melbourne- Homelessness links  and activities

City of Sydney Homelessness Unit

Common Ground Alliance Australia

Homelessness Australia

Mercy Foundation

Micah Projects

Micah Projects Research Unit

National Homelessness Information Clearing House

Parity- Homelessness Journal- Council to Homeless Persons

Women's Refuge Movement Resource Centre

Youth Foundations( formerly known as YAA)


International:

National Alliance to End Homelessness(US peak homelessness organisation)

Pathways to Housing

US Interagency Council on Homelessness



MATERIALS:

Nepean Campaign Against Homelessness Materials:

See Full-length Video interview of Stephanie Brennan of Nepean Campaign Against Homelessness
Check out Interview



NCAH Information Sheet 1: Developing a Housing First Response to Homelessness in the Nepean
Info Sheet 1

NCAH Info Sheet 2: Establishing Project 40 Blue Mountains
Info Sheet 2

Regional Task Force MOU - FINAL
Regional Taskforce MOU

Regional Taskforce ToR

Letter of Intent to form a Consortium of homelessness services
Consortium - Letter of Intent FINAL

Other Materials:

Blue Mountains Youth & Mental Health study (YMISA) 2009

Felicity Reynolds Report for Churchill Fellowship on Homelessness Research overseas

Dr Guy Johnson, RMIT, Pathways In and Out of Homelessness presentation

Dr Guy Johnson, Youth into Adult Homelessness research

Known Territory, report on homelessness in Katoomba by Andy Marks, St Vincent de Paul

Young Homeless Adults 18-24 years report by the National(US) Health Care for the Homeless Council