Boston College School of Social Work (SSW) and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (UW) are collaborating to respond to family homelessness in Massachusetts and its negative ...

In a troubling trend that highlights the worsening crisis of homelessness in the United States, the number of people without ...

The number of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year ...

The faculty members will design an intervention that addresses the impact of homelessness on youth academic and social emotional outcomes, and play a role in the subsequent implementation of the ...

Our national homelessness crisis is the result of entrenched ... We mobilized a diverse set of stakeholders using a collective-impact model—a framework for sustained collaboration on a social ...

The root causes are multifaceted: a severe lack of affordable housing, inadequate mental health services and systemic economic ... homelessness has serious moral and financial impacts.

Coupled with social justice uprisings related to ... who represent the majority of students experiencing homelessness. 2. Universal screening. Schools can ask all students about the economic impact of ...

“Youth experiencing homelessness ... which can impact their academic success, access to internships or future employment opportunities, participation in activities and personal economic success ...