Exploring transitions within a project-based housing first setting: Qualitative evaluation and practice implications

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1678-1697

  Collins, Susan E ^a   Clifasefi, Seema L ^a   Andrasik, Michele P ^a   Dana, Elizabeth A ^a   Stahl, Natalie ^a   Kirouac, Megan ^a   Welbaum, Callista ^b   King, Margaret ^b   Malone, Daniel K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Downtown Emergency Service Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction substance use; Alcohol alcoholism; Community and public health; Community based programs; Grounded theory; Health behavior; Homelessness; Housing First; Marginalized populations; Program evaluation; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FOCUS GROUPS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HOUSING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84871308880     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0187     Document Type: Article

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