JSWE SPECIAL ISSUE: Advancing Social Work Education to Meet the GC2EH
Ending homelessness requires expanding the workforce of passionate and highly skilled practitioners, scholars, and advocates who are...
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During the course of a year, nearly 1.5 million Americans experience homelessness for at least one night. Periods of homelessness often have serious and lasting effects on personal development, health, and well-being. Our challenge is to expand proven approaches that have worked in communities across the country, develop new service innovations and technologies, and adopt policies that promote affordable housing and basic income security.
Community members, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers must join hands in a concerted effort to tackle The Grand Challenge to End Homelessness.
GC2EH Policy Proposals for the 2020 U.S. Election
In this fast-paced year leading up to the Presidential Election of 2020, reducing housing insecurity and homelessness is gaining surprising traction. With homelessness rates rising in major cities, it seems this decades-long crisis has no end in sight. We respectfully disagree. The authors of these essays—all nationally known experts on the topic—demonstrate how such an end could be achieved.
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Right to Shelter? Wrong Approach: Dr. Padgett on why CA should not adopt NYC's shelter policy
New York’s experience is a cautionary tale — not a happy ending.
Combating Compassion Fatigue: NYTimes speaks with Dr. Ben Henwood
“We can help ease human suffering each and every day by taking the time to care about and relate to others.”
Homelessness Myths: Radio Health Journal interview with Dr. Deborah Padgett
Homeless people really are us, just a much, much less fortunate subset of us.
DU Students Prioritize the Human in Human-Centered Design
Guest post by Jennifer Wilson & Ellie Adelman “A young person at Urban Peak [a Denver-based youth shelter] jokingly said, ‘You should try...
The Basis and Nature of A Rights-Based Approach to Housing Policy
Christopher Essert In the 2017 fall, the Canadian Federal Government announced a “National Housing Plan,” and addressing homelessness...
Burnes Center Hosts Event on Ending Homelessness
Guest post by Jennifer Hope Wilson During the 2017-18 academic year, the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work launched...
Burnes Center Completes Evaluation of Denver’s First Tiny Home Community Addressing Homelessness
Guest post by Jennifer Hope Wilson This past spring, the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness, at the University of Denver’s...
Call for Submissions!
For a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Education, the Council on Social Work Education is calling for articles that address...
Grant-Seekers Find New Opportunity in LA Homelessness Challenge
In collaboration with Watt Companies, United Way's Home for Good Initiative has announced their $400,000 grant competition for innovative...
HUD’s Making Affordable Housing Work Act: Dangerous Policy in a Time of Crisis
As a response to the unveiling of the new Housing Bill by HUD Secretary Ben Carson, leaders in the field of social work and homelessness...
Christopher Essert: Homelessness is a Matter of Property Rights
In a paper published in the academic journal Philosophy & Public Affairs, property law researcher Christopher Essert provides a fresh...
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
In another effort to tackle the crisis of homelessness in LA County, the USC Price Center for Social Innovation and United Way of Greater...
Defining and Measuring Housing Insecurity in the United States
In two papers recently published by researchers at USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, the authors develop a comprehensive...
NY Times Sheds Light on One Woman's Path to Homelessness and the Systems that Failed Her
Last month, the New York Times wrote a piece on the life experiences of Nakesha Williams, a woman who faced mental illness, homelessness,...
United Way LA Launches First Fellowship Program of its Kind
For the first time, United Way Los Angeles announced a new Homelessness Policy Fellowship Program for five recent graduates with advanced...
VICE News Features L.A.'s Homeless Count
In a segment aired on January 30th on HBO, VICE News Tonight featured a story on the 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. The segment...
West Coast Convening VIII
This past November, a collective of service providers, advocates, community stakeholders, and researchers in the field of youth...
Nourished
Nourished was launched in the Spring of 2016 through the GC2EH, in partnership with the USC Caruso Catholic Center, the USC...
1,000+ Job Openings in L.A. County for Homeless Services
Through funding from Measure H and the L.A. County Homelessness Initiative, more than a thousand jobs have opened up throughout L.A....
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