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Supporting Employment for People who are Homeless: Q&A with John Rio
Authors: Dickerson, Gloria
Publication Date: 2009
Supported employment is a primary strategy to help people move from homelessness to housing. John Rio talks with HRC’s Gloria Dickerson about the challenges and benefits of implementing employment services in homeless assistance programs.
Tags: feature; consumer involvement; employment; AHP
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HRC Webcast Resources: Employment as a Pathway Out of Homelessness
Authors: Rio, John
Publication Date: 2009
This webcast on February 4, 2009, kicked off the Homelessness Resource Center's 2009 FREE webcast series. John Rio of Advocates for Human Potential provided a one-hour webcast about vocational interventions for people who are homeless.
Tags: supported employment; employment; more webcasts
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HRC Webcast Resource: Assessment in Supported Employment with People Experiencing Homelessness
Authors: Rio, John
Publication Date: 2010
This FREE HRC webcast, which aired on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, discussed vocational assessment strategies in Supported Employment.
Tags: HRC free; Webcast; supported employment
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The Food Stamp Employment & Training Program: A Resource to Increase the Self-Sufficiency of Homeless Job Seekers
Authors: Rio, John
Publication Date: 2008
This brief describes how the Food Stamp and Training Program works, and how it can benefit homeless job seekers. (HRC)
Tags: benefits and entitlements; food stamps; employment
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Common Employment Strategies in the U.S. DOL-HUD Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Housing (CHETA)
Authors: Rio, John
Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) & Advocates for Human Potential
Publication Date: 2008
This report summarizes the findings of CHETA’s survey regarding staff practices within five demonstration projects in order to determine the common employment service interventions used by staff; identify possible training needs for personnel; and stimulate discussion of such practices with project leaders and staff.
Tags: employment; intervention
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Recognizing Work as a Priority in Preventing or Ending Homelessness
Authors: Shaheen, Gary; Rio, John
Journal Name: The Journal of Primary Prevention
Publication Date: 2007
The literature speaks to the importance of employment in the lives of homeless individuals and shows how they can be assisted in job seeking (Long & Amendolia, 2003; Marrone, 2005; Quimby, Drake, & Becker, 2001; Rio, Russell, Dudasik, & Gravino, 1999; Rog & Holupka, 1998; Shaheen, Williams, & Dennis, 2003; Trutko, Barnow, Beck, Min, & Isbell, 1998). Some reports suggest it may be effective and worthwhile to offer employment at the earliest stages of engagement to help people who are homeless....
Tags: employment; supported employment
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Work as a Priority - Issues Brief #3: Access to Mainstream Employment Resources
Authors: Shaheen, Gary; Rio, John
Publication Date: 2009
This Priority Issues Brief offers an introduction to mainstream training and employment services offered primarily through DOL, as well as those available through other sources. It offers some examples of how, by working together, DOL and community stakeholders can assure improved access to mainstream resources. (Authors)
Tags: employment
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Work as a Priority - Issues Brief #4: From Outreach to Employment: Enhancing Motivation to Change
Authors: Lorello, Tom; Rio, John
Publication Date: 2009
This is an excellent overview on using change theory to engage homeless individuals in moving forward towards employment or any other change. (Authors)
Tags: employment; change theory
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Ending Chronic Homelessness Through Employment & Housing - A Leadership Dialogue
Authors: Gale, Katherine; Rio, John
Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing
Publication Date: 2006
On January 25, 2006, a unigue gathering of government officials and practitioners met to discuss their experiences in joining employment services with housing and other supportive services for people who are chronically homeless. The meeting’s purpose was to start a national dialogue about policy and practice challenges that inhibit access to employment and training services by homeless job seekers. We approached this conversation with the common ground that all Americans, even those who are chronical...
Tags: employment
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Linking One-Stop Career Centers and Homeless Assistance and Housing Programs
Authors: Rio, John; Shaheen, Gary
Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
Publication Date: 2006
This document presents strategies for systems to: (1) engage in planning processes that address the employment needs of homeless job seekers and (2) build systemic collaborations to end homelessness, including linking employment programs and services with those delivered through One-Stop Career Centers.
Tags: planning; collaboration; career; employment
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Career Mapping for Disadvantaged Job Seekers
Authors: Shaheen, Gary; Rio, John
Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing
Publication Date: 2006
This paper explains Career Mapping, an alternative method of assessment and goal development intended to augment the core services provided through One-Stop Career Centers. It is a customized employment method derived from an understanding of the impact of disability and homelessness on employment. The authors state that this intervention can be a gateway to competitive employment by increasing customer readiness to benefit from Workforce Investment Act (WIA) intensive or training services.
Tags: employment; supported employment; homelessness
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Keeping Up the Good Work: A Practitioner's Guidebook for Building a Job Retention Culture for People who Experience Homelessness
Authors: Ware, Laura; Martinez, Jennifer; Rio, John
Publication Date: 2008
Keeping Up the Good Work is a response to the gap in resources for homeless assistance, supportive housing and workforce development practitioners to help tenants of supportive housing, shelter residents and homeless people keep their jobs. It is about how practitioners can help job seekers and workers maintain an attachment to the labor force.
Tags: employment
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Keeping Up the Good Work: A Practitioner’s Guidebook for Building a Job Retention Culture for People Who Experience Homelessness
Authors: Ware, Laura; Martinez, Jennifer; Rio, John
Publication Date: 2008
Keeping Up the Good Work is a response to the gap in resources for homeless assistance, supportive housing and workforce development practitioners to help tenants of supportive housing, shelter residents and homeless people keep their jobs. It is about how practitioners can help job seekers and workers maintain an attachment to the labor force. (Authors)
Tags: supportive housing; housing; workforce development
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Ending Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Housing: A Program and Policy Handbook for Successfully Linking Supportive Housing and Employment Services for Chronically Homeless Adults
Authors: Rio, John; Ware, Laura; Tucker, P. ; Martinez, J.
Publication Date: 2008
This Handbook summarizes key lessons learned from the five-year U.S. DOL and HUD demonstration projects in five cities, funded through the Ending Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Housing (ECHEH) initiative. It is intended to assist and inform service providers, program planners, policy makers, and community leaders who want to understand the key ingredients, operational procedures, and policy implications for establishing an effective approach to providing employment and housing services to...
Tags: education; supported employment
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Employment and Income Supports for Homeless People
Authors: Long, David; Rio, John; Rosen, Jeremy
Publication Date: 2007
In this paper, the authors synthesize the findings of recent studies examining the role of mainstream programs such as Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Workforce Investment Act (WIA) initiatives in enhancing employment and incomes for people who have experienced homelessness. They also describe the design and outcomes of targeted programs designed specifically to address employment and income support for people who are homele...
Tags: mental health; disability; employment; benefits and entitlements; TANF
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Jack Layton: There is suffering in our own backyard
Publication Date: 2010
Stephen Harper’s recent announcement that Canada will be making maternal and child health a top priority at June’s G8 meeting makes him a welcome latecomer to the issue. While other countries have been delivering full-fledged support for maternal and child health since 2007, pledging $5.3-billion dollars to the cause last year alone, Canada has been virtually invisible on the issue. Rather than marking a new approach of principled humanitarianism, this announcement highlights years of Canadian inactio...
Tags: poverty in canada; marginalized population; women and children
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Youth Homelessness in Saint John
Publication Date: 2011
There are nearly 200 homeless youth in Saint John. A working working group that includes representatives from youth-serving organizations and area churches is currently working on establishing an emergency housing facility to complement and strengthen existing housing and support services for homeless youth. The Saint John Youth House project is an initiative of the Greater Saint John Homelessness Steering Committee. Hemmings House, a local TV and film production company, cr...
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The Portland Conversations: Ending Chronic Homelessness Through Employment and Housing
Authors: Rio, John; Bridges, Ray; Ware, Laura; Martinez, Jennifer
Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and Advocates for Human Potential
Publication Date: 2008
Five demonstration projects in urban centers, now in their final year of federal funding, were created to test a housing plus employment strategy. Each represents a unique collaboration involving local workforce investment boards, government-led housing agencies, and other partners. This report chronicles conversations among the staff from the five sites joined by Federal agency staff, housing and homelessness experts, and the staff of the Chronic Homelessness and Employment Technical Assistance Cente...
Tags: housing; employment; chronic / long-term homelessness
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Afghan Beggars
Authors: Lyden, Jackie
Publication Date: 2002
NPR's Jacki Lyden reports from Kabul, where thousands of Afghan children roam the streets supporting their families by begging. The children are known as 'Spandee' and some of them are as young as eight years old.
Tags: street children; begging; poverty
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Overview of the Mental Health Service System for Criminal Justice Professionals
Authors: Massaro, Jackie
Organization: CMHS GAINS TAPA Center for Jail Diversion
Publication Date: 2005
The criminal justice and mental health service systems appear to meet very different societal needs, yet they overlap in two significant ways. First, they both seeks to maintain the safety of the people in the community; second, both systems work with the same individual. This publication provides criminal justice professionals with basic information about the adult mental health service system, and its highlights some of the common challenges for the mental health and criminal justice systems in meet...
Tags: criminal justice; mental health