No Longer Homeless - How the Ex-Homeless Get and Stay Off the Streets

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about—those who have formerly been on the streets—sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

List of contents

Chapter 1-Introduction: Giving Voice to the Ex-Homeless
Chapter 2-Profiles of Formerly Homeless People: Some Surprising Successes
Chapter 3-The Fight to Secure and Stay in Housing
Chapter 4-The Income to Live and Avoid Homelessness
Chapter 5-Community, Support, and Staying Housed
Chapter 6-The Therapeutic Road to Recovery: Exits from Homelessness

About the author

David Wagner is professor emeritus in sociology and social work at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of nine books, including Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community, which won the C. Wright Mills Award.Gemma Atticks is a recent graduate of the Master of Social Work program at the University of Southern Maine.

Summary

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about—those who have formerly been on the streets—sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

Foreword

An inspiring and uplifting novel from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Happiness and The House of New Beginnings.

Additional text

Praise for The House of New Beginnings: An absolute treat

Product details

• Authors: Gemma Atticks, David Wagner
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781538110072
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1007-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Assisted by: Gemma Atticks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness