Using GIS to Respond to the Homeless Crisis:Mapping the Intersection of Hunger and Student Homelessness Across America Rachel Barth, Senior Policy AnalystMukta Ramola, GIS Analyst How do homelessness and poor nutrition affect children in your community? Poor nutrition has a harmful effect on the physical and cognitive development of children. Unfortunately, it is too often…
Student Homelessness Growing Fastest in Rural America Across the country, the number of public school students being identified as homeless continues to rise. The vast majority of these students, 88%, live in cities, suburbs, and towns. In recent years, however, the highest rate of growth for student homelessness has been in rural America. Between the…
Beyond Housing 2020: A National Conversation on Child Homelessness and Poverty January 15–17, 2020 Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan New York City Join fellow practitioners, policymakers, and service providers to share new and effective programs, solutions, and policies aimed at reducing poverty and homelessness among children and families in the US. Attend strategy and solution-based interactive…
Homeless children and their families need more than a fixed, safe place to sleep. They need educational supports, food security, and resources for health and well-being. Acknowledging the many challenges faced by homeless families and children is the first step to identifying and servicing their needs. When it comes to meeting the needs of vulnerable…
Visualizing Child Homelessness: Last year homelessness affected 1.3 million children in American public schools. New York State is home to two-thirds of all homeless students in the Northeast. In the nation’s capital, the homeless student population grew by 70% from SY 2013–14 to SY 2016–17. The number of homeless students living doubled up in Connecticut…
On March 6, 2018 at SXSW EDU in Austin, TX, step into the hidden world of student homelessness at “The Invisible Million: Homeless Students in the U.S.”…
For years, we at the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness have focused a spotlight on student homelessness in major cities, with annual reports on New York City and now, for the first time, Seattle. …
To mark GIS Day 2017, Senior GIS Analyst Kristen MacFarlane examines the many ways ICPH uses Geographic Information Systems in our work.…
Seattle has long been on the forefront when it comes to supporting homeless students and working to end family homelessness, but family homelessness is so pervasive that every school, neighborhood, community, and individual in Seattle must accept that someone in their world is experiencing housing instability.…
The water in Houston may be receding, but the damage has been done. Before a single drop of rain fell in the state of Texas, more than 110,000 children in at least 25,000 families were homeless. Now those numbers have swelled into the hundreds of thousands.…