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RESEARCH PAPER - AN EVALUATION - Volume 15:24 August 2022 - OF HOUSING FIRST

22 Aug 2022

The length and breadth of the data available provide us with the opportunity to associate success in establishing and retaining housing with the personal characteristics and experiences of those chosen for HF programs. [...] VARIETIES OF SUCCESS To determine exit outcomes of HF participants, we use the responses to the HF exit- interview questions “Why is the client leaving the program?” and “What is the client’s destination?” Table 6 identifies the various types of outcomes and shows the number of clients falling into each category. [...] (2015) who, in a 12-month follow-up to the demonstration project, define the rate of success of program participants at maintaining housing as the number of participants still in housing relative to the number of program participants whose housing outcomes they could continue to observe. [...] HF AND THE HEALTH AND JUSTICE SYSTEMS For the health and justice systems, the benefits of successful HF programs come in the form of fewer interactions with people who were formerly homeless, and in the form of the better health outcomes that are expected to be the result of HF programs.19 Choosing clients with fewer interactions with the health and justice systems increases the rate at which clie. [...] reflect the opinions of the supporters, staff, or The mission of The School of Public Policy is to strengthen Canada’s boards of The School public service, institutions and economic performance for the of Public Policy.
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