Departmental Papers (SPP)
Papers from 2002
Public Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, and Trevor Hadley
Between Me and The Computer: Increased Detection of Intimate Partner Violence Using a Computer Questionnaire, Karin V. Rhodes, Diane S. Lauderdale, Theresa He, David S. Howes, and Wendy Levinson
Preventing Traumatic Stress: Public Health Approaches, Susan B. Sorenson
Legalized Abortion and the Homicide of Young Children: An Empirical Investigation, Susan B. Sorenson, Douglas J. Wiebe, and Richard A. Berk
The nature of newspaper coverage of homicide, Catherine A. Taylor and Susan B. Sorenson
What Kind of Social Policy do Social Work Students Prefer? A Comparison of Students in Three Countries, Idit Weiss, John Gal, Ram A. Cnaan, and Rea Majlaglic
Community Integration of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities in Supportive Independent Housing: A Conceptual Model and Methodological Considerations, Yin-Ling I. Wong and Phyllis L. Solomon
Papers from 2001
Similarities in Coping Strategies but Differences in Sources of Support Among African American and White Women Coping with Breast Cancer, Joretha N. Bourjolly and Karen B. Hirschman
The Co-Occurrence of AIDS and Homelessness: Results from the Integration of Administrative Data for AIDS Surveillance and Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia, Dennis P. Culhane, Erica E. Gollub, Randall R. Kuhn, and Mark Shpaner
Comment on James R. Cohen’s “Abandoned Housing: Exploring Lessons from Baltimore”, Dennis P. Culhane and Amy E. Hillier
A Closer Look at the Japanese American National Museum, Damon W. Freeman
Advocacy by environmental nonprofit organizations: An optimal strategy for addressing environmental problems?, Femida Handy
Using African American Narratives to Analyze Social Policy, Roberta R. Iversen
Assessing Homeless Population Size Through the Use of Emergency and Transitional Shelter Services in 1998: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data from Nine US Jurisdictions, Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane, Stacy Raphael, Matthew White, Carol Pearson, Eric Hirsch, Patricia Ferrell, Steve Rice, Barbara Ritter, and J. Stephen Cleghorn
Better Health While You Wait: A Controlled Trial of a Computer-Based Intervention for Screening and Health Promotion in the Emergency Department, Karin V. Rhodes, Diane S. Lauderdale, Carol B. Stocking, David S. Howes, Michael F. Roizen, and Wendy Levinson
Evaluating a Community Based Homelessness Prevention Program: A Geographic Information System Approach, Yin-Ling I. Wong and Amy E. Hillier
Papers from 2000
Reexamining Central High: American Memory and Social Reality, Damon W. Freeman
Comparing Neighbors: Social Service Provision by Religious Congregations in Ontario and the United States, Femida Handy and Ram A. Cnaan
Public Perception of "Who is a Volunteer": An Examination of the Net-cost Approach from a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Femida Handy, Ram A. Cnaan, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Ugo Ascoli, Lucas C. Meijs, and Shree Ranade
The Validity of Self-Reported Criminal Arrest History Among Clients of a Psychiatric Probation and Parole Service, Kim E. Nieves, Jeffrey N. Draine, and Phyllis L. Solomon
Measurement Properties of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies--Depression Scale in a Homeless Population, Yin-Ling I. Wong
Papers from 1999
Performance and Commitment: Issues in Management of Volunteers in Human Service Organizations, Ram A. Cnaan and Toni Cascio
How Much Do We Count? Interpretation and Error-Making in the Decennial Census, Roberta R. Iversen, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Alisa Alom Belzer
The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study, Chang-Moo Lee, Dennis P. Culhane, and Susan M. Wachter
Community Development as a Public Sector Agenda, Felice D. Perlmutter and Ram A. Cnaan
Help in Time: An Evaluation of Philadelphia's Community-Based Homelessness Prevention Program, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Meg Koppel, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, David E. Eldridge, Amy Hillier, and Helen R. Lee
Papers from 1998
Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data, Randall Kuhn and Dennis P. Culhane
Papers from 1997
Volunteering for Human Service Provisions: Lessons from Italy and the U.S.A., Ugo Ascoli and Ram A. Cnaan
Making Homelessness Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and the Public, Dennis P. Culhane, David Eldridge, Robert Rosenheck, and Carol Wilkins
Where Homeless Families Come From: Toward a Prevention-Oriented Approach in Washington, DC, Dennis P. Culhane and Chang-Moo Lee
Where to from Here? A Policy Research Agenda Based on the Analysis of Administrative Data, Dennis P. Culhane and Stephen Metraux
Predictors of Exit and Reentry among Family Shelter Users in New York City, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Dennis P. Culhane, and Randall Kuhn
Papers from 1996
The Treated Prevalence of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders among Adults Admitted to the Philadelphia Shelter System: Results from the Integration of Longitudinal Data on Shelter and Mental Health Services Utilization, Dennis P. Culhane, June M. Averyt, and Trevor R. Hadley
Where the Homeless Come From: A Study of the Prior Address Distribution of Families Admitted to Public Shelters in New York City and Philadelphia, Dennis P. Culhane, Chang-Moo Lee, and Susan M. Wachter
Papers from 1995
Federal Plan to Address Homelessness Recognizes Size, Complexity of Problem, Dennis P. Culhane
Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: The Horns of a Dilemma, Felice D. Perlmutter and Ram A. Cnaan
Papers from 1994
Assessing the Impact of Two Residential Programs for Dually-Diagnosed Homeless Individuals, Laura E. Blankertz and Ram A. Cnaan
Public Shelter Admission Rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The Implications of Turnover for Sheltered Population Counts, Dennis P. Culhane, Edmond F. Dejowski, Julie Ibañez, Elizabeth Needham, and Irene Macchia
Papers from 1993
Childhood Risk Factors in Dually Diagnosed Homeless Adults, Laura E. Blankertz, Ram A. Cnaan, and Erica Freedman
Shelters Lead Nowhere, Dennis P. Culhane
Papers from 1992
The Quandaries of Shelter Reform: An Appraisal of Efforts to "Manage" Homelessness, Dennis P. Culhane
The Discriminating Characteristics of For-Profit versus Not-For-Profit Freestanding Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities, Dennis P. Culhane and Trevor R. Hadley
Expenditure and Revenue Patterns of State Mental Health Agencies from 1981 to 1987, Trevor R. Hadley, Dennis P. Culhane, Fred Snyder, and Theodore Lutterman
Papers from 1991
Poorhouse Revisited, Dennis P. Culhane
Poverty and the Life-cycle, 1940-1960, Mark J. Stern
Papers from 1990
On Becoming Homeless: The Structural and Experiential Dynamics of Residential Instability, Dennis P. Culhane
Single Room Housing Won't End Homelessness, Dennis P. Culhane
Papers from 1983
Black Faculty in Predominantly White Schools of Social Work: A Qualitative Assessment, Larry Davis, Phyllis Freeman, Louis H. Carter, and Ramón Cartwright
Papers from 1982
A Qualitative Look at Black Female Social Work Educators, Larry Davis, Ramón Cartwright, Phyllis Freeman, and Louis H. Carter
Papers from 1978
How Do Black Graduate Social Work Students Benefit From a Course on Institutional Racism?, Louis H. Carter
The Black Instructor: An Essential Dimension to the Content and Structure of the Social Work Curriculum, Louis H. Carter
Migration and the Social Order in Erie County, New York: 1855, Michael B. Katz, Michael J. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern