Use of Faith-Based Social Service Providers in a Representative Sample of Urban Homeless Women

Heslin, Kevin C.; Andersen, Ronald; Gelberg, Lillian

doi:10.1093/jurban/jtg051

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“…Whilst the latter body of work includes a number of highly critical accounts of faith‐based services for homeless people, some of which we have highlighted here (but see also Mulder ), it also includes accounts that echo our own: charting the role of FBOs in resisting the widespread criminalisation of homelessness in the US in the 1990s (Kress ), for example; attempts to rework government directives focused on the individual responsibilities of service users to champion instead the dignity and rights of homeless people (Smith and Sosin, ); and calls on the state by faith‐based organisations to meet its obligations to its poor and marginalised citizens (Staeheli ). Whilst such work demonstrates the broad range of FBOs active in US welfare, including the work of Jewish and Muslim as well as Christian organisations, and the complex interplay of race, ethnicity and religious affiliation (as different service users very often turn to different faith‐based organisations for assistance) (Heslin et al ), there would as yet seem to have been less attention paid to the kind of postsecular responses highlighted here, though once again a longer historical perspective would suggest that such responses are plainly evident: most obviously, perhaps, in the 1980s when the faith‐based activist Mitch Snyder worked alongside the Community for Creative Non‐Violence to push the Reagan administration to release federal facilities for use as homeless shelters (see Bogard ; Rader ).…”

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Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness

May

Cloke

2013

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Hegemonic accounts of urban homelessness, focusing on attempts to restrict homeless people's presence in public space, stress the punitive nature of current homelessness policy. In contrast, in this paper we explore the "messy middle ground" of the UK homeless services system. Examining Stacey Murphy's (2009) (Antipode 41 (2):305-325) arguments regarding a shift to a "post-revanchist" era in San Francisco, we chart the apparent similarities between developments in San Francisco and changes to the management of street homelessness bought in to effect by the New Labour government in the UK, and assess the extent to which such developments might be read as holding in tension more obviously punitive and supportive trends usually viewed as necessarily oppositional. In the final part of the paper we present a re-reading of recent changes to the management of street homelessness in the UK through a postsecular lens. We suggest that this lens provides the possibility for a much more optimistic reading of homeless services and of the grammars of homelessness and urban (in)justice more broadly, and make the case for an alternative mode of academic attentiveness open to sometimes subtle and smaller-scale yet nonetheless important examples of different ways of understanding and doing.

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Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness

May

Cloke

2013

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“…Bridging bus to faith institutions: FBOs have historically and consistently been on the forefront of providing support to precariously housed and economically vulnerable populations (Heslin, Andersen, & Gelberg, 2003; Littlefield, 2010). Given the importance of faith institutions reported by low-income nondrivers, maximizing access to FBOs seems an effective strategy for promoting social inclusion and engagement for older adults.…”

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Accessing Faith-Based Organizations Using Public Transportation: A Qualitative and GIS Study

2017

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Nondriving aging adults are at risk of experiencing mobility barriers that inhibit access to important community resources for managing health and wellbeing. This multimethod study explores bus transportation experiences of older adults who live in extended stay hotels and use faith-based organizations to access resources. Interviews from 17 nondriving older adults were analyzed for perspectives about using faith-based organizations and residents' experiences navigating to faith-based organizations through available bus transportation in their communities. Residents described both favorable and unfavorable experiences when reaching out for help from faith-based organizations. Although they report reliance on faith-based organizations for a variety of resources, residents were challenged by an ineffective bus system that interfered with resource accessibility. Suggestions for improving bus transit systems and providing alternative, aging-friendly transportation options are discussed.

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“…This program affinity was an important theme for Hodge (2000) in the analysis of residential treatment programs in which both faith-based and secular programs had equivalent treatment, especially related to client autonomy. Similarly, strong religious affiliation of the client increased the likelihood of using faith-based providers while nonreligious clients were half as likely to use faith-based providers in an analysis of data from homeless women in Los Angeles (Heslin, Andersen, & Gelberg, 2003). However, this difference disappeared for participation in faith-based programs with greater gains in social capital and highly rated religious components.…”

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Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

Bielefeld

Cleveland

2013

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The welfare reforms initiated in the 1990s prompted increased discussion of the use of faith-based organizations for the provision of social services. This is the second of two articles examining the progress of this debate. The first article provides the scope of inquiry, defines specific characteristics of faith-based organizations, and outlines methods used to study them. This article discusses specific services provided by faith-based organizations and how these organizations are related to the government. Faith-based organizations compared favorably to secular organizations in the services they provided while providing a somewhat narrower range of services. The implementation of Charitable Choice and other faith-based initiatives as policy required consideration of constitutional and practical issues with the implementation of collaborations and partnerships between government and faith-based organizations along with increased government funding and contracting for these organizations.

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Use of Faith-Based Social Service Providers in a Representative Sample of Urban Homeless Women

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness

Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness

Accessing Faith-Based Organizations Using Public Transportation: A Qualitative and GIS Study

Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

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