Finding, Serving, and Housing the Homeless: Using Collaborative Research to Prepare Social Work Students for Research and Practice

Social work plays a key role in engaging with clients and communities directly affected by housing insecurity and homelessness, and advocating for the right to safe and affordable housing. This article describes methodologies of the Point-in-Time Count and Homeless Management Information Systems and...

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Published inJournal of teaching in social work Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 292 - 306
Main Authors Lane, Shannon R., McClendon, Jennifer, Matthews, Natalie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 27.05.2017
Subjects
Advocacy
Best Practices
Case Studies
Counselor Training
Course Content
Curriculum Development
Data collection
Experiential Learning
Graduate Students
Higher Education
Homeless People
homelessness
Housing
Management Information Systems
Public Agencies
School Community Relationship
Social Work
social work education
Student Needs
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Social work plays a key role in engaging with clients and communities directly affected by housing insecurity and homelessness, and advocating for the right to safe and affordable housing. This article describes methodologies of the Point-in-Time Count and Homeless Management Information Systems and proposes strategies for integrating additional content around homelessness into the social work curriculum in research courses and beyond. This integration can meet student needs regarding experiential research, as well as agency and community needs for effective collection and use of data. A case example and proposed best practices describe opportunities for university-community collaborations in homelessness research.
ISSN:0884-1233
1540-7349
DOI:10.1080/08841233.2017.1317689