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Housing and Human Services

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction: Course Requirements, Goals, Framework
  • The Housing and Human Service Systems: Interface and Interaction
  • Frame Reflection and Best Practice Debates: Confronting Homelessness
  • The Mental Health Housing System: The Theory
  • The Mental Health Housing System: The Practice
  • Elderly Housing and Service Needs: The Theory
  • Elderly Housing: The Practice
  • Transitional Housing: The Theory, the Practice and the Debate
  • Constructing Special Categories: AIDS Housing
  • Deinstitutionalization: Ex-Offenders in the Community
  • Placed-Based Services in Public Housing: The Jobs Plus Program
  • People-based Services in Public Housing: Family Self-Sufficiency and JobLink
  • Student Presentations
  • Student Presentations and Wrap Up

Readings

  • “Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Nonprofit Housing Developers and Social Service Agencies.” Table 5 in Not a Solo Act: Creating Successful Partnerships to Develop & Operate Supportive Housing . Corporation for Supportive Housing, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Pascoe, Neil, and Quentin Thompson. “Cooperation & Conflict: An Examination of the Interface Between Housing and Social Service Departments.” Housing Review, May-June 1979.
    Listed reading
  • Wenger, Etienne. “Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems.” Organization 7, no. 2 (2000).
    Listed reading
  • Bratt, and Keyes. “Broadening Approaches to Self-Sufficiency: Why Organizations Move into New Roles.” Chapter 4 in New Perspectives on Self-Sufficiency: Strategies of Nonprofit Housing Organizations. 1997.
    Listed reading
  • Schon, and Rein. “Policy Controversies as Frame Conflicts.” In Frame Reflection. NY: Basic Books, 1994, pp. 23-36. ISBN: 0465025064.
    Listed reading
  • Keyes, Langley. Exceprts from “Housing and the Homeless.” In Building Foundations . Edited by DiPasquale and Keyes. Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990, pp. 404-414. ISBN: 0812213092.
    Listed reading
  • “Ending Chronic Homelessness.” New York Times, March 13, 2002. (editorial)
    Listed reading
  • “HHS Releases Comprehensive Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.” News Release, March 28, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • “Questions and Answers About the ‘Chronic Homelessness Initiative’.” National Coalition for the Homeless, April 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Rosennheck, et. al. “Special Populations of Homeless Americans.” 1998, pp. 1-4. (xeroxed paper)
    Listed reading
  • Culhane, Dennis. “New Strategies and Collaborations Target Homelessness.” Housing Facts and Findings 4, no. 5. Fannie Mae Foundation, 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Rein, Martin. “Primary and Secondary Reframing.” Cybernetics & Human Knowing 7, no. 2-3 (2000): 89-103.
    Listed reading
  • Minkoff, K. “AACP Position Statement on Housing Options for Individuals with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness.” June 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Carling, Paul “Major Mental Illness, Housing, and Supports: The Promise of Community Integration.” American Psychologist 45, no. 8 (August 1990): 969-975.
    Listed reading
  • “Evolution of Services.” Department of Mental Health, Rhode Island, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • “Expanding Affordable Housing Options for DMH Clients: An Action Agenda for the Future.” CHAPA Report , June 2000.
    Listed reading
  • Knoedler, William. “What About Assertive Community Treatment?” NAMI, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • “NAMI Offers Comments on Bush Executive Order Regarding State Implementation of Olmstead.” NAMI E-news, August, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Torrey, and Zdanowicz. “Deinstitutionalization Hasn’t Worked.” Washington Post , July 9, 1999.
    Listed reading
  • “DMH Affiliated Housing: Overview and Data Analysis.” Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, August 2003.
    Listed reading
  • “Integrated Housing Overview.” Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Katz, Jessica. “Chasing Buddy Baker.” Profile by Jessica Katz. (MCP 2003)
    Listed reading
  • Keyes, Langley. “Housing the Elderly: The Demographic Imperative.” Economic Security and Intergenerational Justice, Urban Institute, 1993.
    Listed reading
  • “Before the Boom: ….” Public Policy Institute, AARP , October 2002.
    Listed reading
  • “The Challenge of Housing Security.” HUD , 1999. (selections)
    Listed reading
  • “These Four Walls….” AARP , May 2003, pp. 62-75.
    Listed reading
  • “Consumer-Directed Services for Older People.” National Institute on Consumer-Directed Long-term Services, 1996.
    Listed reading
  • “Who We Are.” On Lok Senior Housing, 2002.
    Listed reading
  • “Assisted Living in the United States.” AARP , June 2001.
    Listed reading
  • “Selecting a Continuing Care Retirement Community.” AHHSA , 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Keyes, Langley. “The Challenge of Housing Security.” HUD , 1999. (selections)
    Listed reading
  • “Who We Are.” On Lok Senior Housing, 2002
    Listed reading
  • “Assisted Living in the United States.” AARP , June 2001
    Listed reading
  • “In Brief: The 1999 National Survey of Section 202 Elderly Housing.”
    Listed reading
  • Barrow, and Zimmer. “Transitional Housing and Services: A Synthesis.” National Symposium on Homeless Research, 1998.
    Listed reading
  • “Transitional Housing: Best Practices & Pitfalls.” HomeBase , 1997.
    Listed reading
  • “Domestic Violence and the Need for Transitional Housing,” National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Marcuse, P. “The Pitfalls of Specialism: Special Groups and the General Problem of Housing.” Housing Issues of the 1990s . Edited by Sara Rosenberry, and Chester Hartman. New York: Praeger, 1989. ISBN: 0275923622.
    Listed reading
  • Yates, Chris. Building for Immunity: Housing People with HIV Disease and AIDS, AIDS and Housing Project. London: National Federation of Housing Associations, 1991. ISBN: 0862972000.
    Listed reading
  • AIDS: The Issues for Housing Resource Information Service, 1987.
    Listed reading
  • “AIDS Housing of Washington.” 3rd Annual Conference Handbook .
    Listed reading
  • Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: People-based Services in Public Housing: Family Self-Sufficiency and JobLink · READINGS: Extracts from Laurie’s Goldman’s Collected Writings on FSS.
    Reading assignment
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