DC Accepted Papers Paper:
Documenting the Relationship between Homeless Veterans and Their Communities: A Social Ecological Approach
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
As a group, United States veterans who are experiencing homelessness share characteristics with the general populations, but have unique characteristics and service needs as well. As of 2019, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs reports that 3 states and 78 communities have ended veteran homelessness. However, even those communities that have ended veteran homelessness are challenged with keeping people successfully housed.For this task, I suggest that the community plays an important role.
Inthis poster I will review literature about interventions for ending homelessness in veteran populations and the ways that those interventions relate to social dynamics of homelessness in different types of community. Using McLeroy et al’s Social Ecological Model (1988) as a framework, I will study the relationships that homeless and formerly-homeless veterans build as they impact, and are impacted by, the communities that they live in.
