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 holds a bachelor's degree from UC Irvine in Information and Computer Science with a minor in Digital Arts. He has over a decade of professional experience creating engaging and exciting content for large audiences. As a Content Creator for Theme Park Review, David's unique reporting and video creation garnered hundreds of millions of views across multiple social platforms. As the convention-week Social Media Manager for Midsummer Scream Convention (the world's largest Halloween and Horror convention), David produced social media content that informed and entertained over 30,000 convention attendees, as well as engaged thousands more watching from home. Additionally, his work as an "essential worker" at Trader Joe's during the pandemic gave him a front row view to the Covid-19 pandemic, making him uniquely qualified to write a children's book on the subject.

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Wagner
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781538141489
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4148-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Assisted by: Gemma Atticks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Wohnen und Obdachlosigkeit, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Poverty & unemployment, Social Work, Social, group or collective psychology, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness