Hilary Botein, Andrea Hetling

Home Safe Home

Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing is a key to establishing a new life free from abuse. Home Safe Home offers a multifaceted analysis that both values the perspectives of IPV survivors and accounts for the practical challenges involved in providing them with adequate permanent housing. As it traces how housing options and support mechanisms for IPV survivors have evolved over time, this book also offers innovative suggestions for how to better meet the needs of this vulnerable population.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780813585840
• ISBN-10: 0813585848
• Artikelnr.: 44941116

Autorenporträt

Botein, Hilary

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Part I Why Long-Term Housing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence?
Chapter 1 - “Why Doesn’t She Leave?”: Intimate Partner Violence and Housing
Instability
Chapter 2 - “How Does Housing Help?”: A “Services Light” Long-Term Housing
Model
 
Part II The Current Policy and Service Environment: How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 3 - First Stop: Emergency Shelters and Transitional Programs
Chapter 4 - Mismatch between US Social Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
 
Part III An Evolving Approach: Long-Term Housing
Chapter 5 - National Overview: Legislative Response and Program Variations
Chapter 6 - Developing Program Theory and Goals: Long-Term Housing with
Services
Chapter 7 - Survivor Perspectives on Program Theory and Models
 
Part IV Next Steps?
Chapter 8 - Moving Forward: Research and Policy
 
Epilogue: A Practitioner’s Perspective
 
Appendix
Bibliography
Index