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Helping America's Homeless

Emergency Shelter Or Affordable Housing?

By: Martha R. Burt

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Helping America's Homeless

Emergency Shelter Or Affordable Housing?

By: Martha R. Burt

Longtime Urban Institute researcher Martha Burt and her co-authors provide an in-depth analysis of homelessness, exploring issues such as how many homeless people there are in America, where they are, why they became homeless, how long their homelessness lasts, the different ways programs in different communities are helping the homeless, and how policymakers have approached the problem. Finally, they consider what societies may be willing to do reduce the probability that their members will become homeless. c. Book News Inc.

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The Urban Insitute

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0877667012

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9780877667018

Drug Abuse

Its Natural History and the Effectiveness of Current Treatments

By: Marvin R. Burt,Sharon Pines,Thomas Joseph Glynn

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Drug Abuse

Its Natural History and the Effectiveness of Current Treatments

By: Marvin R. Burt,Sharon Pines,Thomas Joseph Glynn

The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clientsâ progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of treatment should also include client status in the years following treatment for a fair assessment of the long-term efficacy of any drug-treatment program. What happens to former clients who left treatment? What influence did the treatment have on their lives? These are the questions that Marvin R. Burt seeks to answer with the follow-up studies included in this book. By selecting samples of former clients treated by two of the largest drug treatment agencies in the U.S. and control groups, Burt compares client behavior in terms of drug abuse, criminal activity, and socioeconomic productivity before, immediately following, and well after treatment. The findings in this book challenge many common assumptions about drug treatment programs. Burt finds larger than expected positive behavioral changes in clients regardless of treatment duration or type, and demographic or background characteristics. Whether the results are attributable to the clientsâ maturation, commitment to change, or a reduction in the availability of drugs, the positive results of treatment are encouraging. This volume provides valuable insight into the natural history of drug abuse and outcomes for client groups.

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Transaction Publishers

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0870739956

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9780870739958

Homelessness

Programs and the People They Serve : Findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients : Technical Report

By: Martha R. Burt

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Homelessness

Programs and the People They Serve : Findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients : Technical Report

By: Martha R. Burt

This 1996 Nat. Survey of Homeless Assist. Providers & Clients (NSHAPC) is a landmark study. It was designed to provide updated information about the providers of homeless assistance & the characteristics of homeless persons who use the services. The survey is based on a statistical sample of 76 metropolitan & non-metropolitan areas, including small cities & rural areas. Data for the survey were collected between Oct. 1995 & Nov. 1996. Chapters: design overview; overview of homeless clients; comparing currently with formerly homeless clients & other service users; homeless assistance programs; sampling areas; & program definitions. Charts & tables.

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109

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DIANE Publishing

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0788187546

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9780788187544

Shakespeare After Mass Media

By: R. Burt

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Shakespeare After Mass Media

By: R. Burt

Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the pop cultural afterlife of The Bard. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett's Quotations , the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in an unprecedently broad array of mass media contexts. With theoretical sophistication and accessible writing, it will be the ideal text for courses on Shakespeare and mass media.

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342

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Springer

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1137092777

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9781137092779

Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families

By: Martha R. Burt

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Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families

By: Martha R. Burt

Given the significant investment HUD has made in transitional housing (TH) programs since enactment of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist. Act, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs. TH has been an important element of HUD¿s efforts to respond to the housing needs of homeless families and individuals through a continuum of care. This study examines whether TH makes a difference in the lives of the families it serves and whether it is more effective for some homeless people than others. This study follows 179 families in 36 TH programs within five communities for one year after leaving the program. TH programs, and certain characteristics of the programs, were found to be associated with positive outcomes. Illustrations.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437936636

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9781437936636

Blessings of the Burden

Reflections and Lessons in Helping the Homeless

By: Alan R. Burt

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Blessings of the Burden

Reflections and Lessons in Helping the Homeless

By: Alan R. Burt

In Blessings of the Burden Alan R. Burt shares his heart for people who are homeless. Full of personal stories drawn from almost two decades of firsthand experience working with the homeless, this book is a passionate plea for greater community involvement in confronting the pressing social problem of homelessness. Unfolding in five parts, Blessings of the Burden includes Burt's own journey from apathy to advocacy, a moving interview with a formerly homeless man who is now the director of an organization that fights homelessness in Cape Cod, Burt's analysis of the fourteen main reasons why homelessness is such a massive problem in America, and an example of how one community developed an innovative and cost-effective approach to helping the homeless among them. Powerful and compelling, Blessings of the Burden will inspire readers to get involved with the homeless and to become advocates for their needs, believing that they can make a difference in their communities.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467437387

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Drug Abuse

Its Natural History and Clinical Treatment

By: Marvin R. Burt,Sharon Pines,Thomas J. Glynn

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Drug Abuse

Its Natural History and Clinical Treatment

By: Marvin R. Burt,Sharon Pines,Thomas J. Glynn

The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clients' progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of treatment should also include client status in the years following treatment for a fair assessment of the long-term efficacy of any drug-treatment program. What happens to former clients who left treatment? What influence did the treatment have on their lives? These are the questions that Marvin R. Burt seeks to answer with the follow-up studies included in this book. By selecting samples of former clients treated by two of the largest drug treatment agencies in the U.S. and control groups, Burt compares client behavior in terms of drug abuse, criminal activity, and socioeconomic productivity before, immediately following, and well after treatment. The findings in this book challenge many common assumptions about drug treatment programs. Burt finds larger than expected positive behavioral changes in clients regardless of treatment duration or type, and demographic or background characteristics. Whether the results are attributable to the clients' maturation, commitment to change, or a reduction in the availability of drugs, the positive results of treatment are encouraging. This volume provides valuable insight into the natural history of drug abuse and outcomes for client groups.

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Routledge

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1351521659

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Homelessness

Prevention Strategies and Effectiveness

By: Martha R. Burt

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Homelessness

Prevention Strategies and Effectiveness

By: Martha R. Burt

Homelessness prevention is an essential element of any effort to end homelessness either locally or nation-wide. To close the front door of entry into homelessness, the central challenge of prevention is targeting our efforts toward those people that will become homeless without the intervention. This book identifies elements of community homelessness prevention strategies that seem to lead to reductions in the number of people who otherwise would become homeless. The contributing elements include targeting through control of the eligibility screening process; developing community motivation; maximising mainstream and private resources; fostering leadership; and ensuring the availability and structure of data and information used to track progress, improve on prevention efforts, and facilitate outcome-based contracting. Evidence from the six communities studied indicates that those employing the most elements seem to be more successful at prevention and better able to document their achievements. This book also identifies four promising homelessness prevention activities that may be used alone or in combination as part of a coherent community-wide strategy: (1) supportive services coupled with permanent housing, particularly when combined with effective discharge from institutions, especially mental hospitals; (2) mediation in Housing Courts; (3) cash assistance for rent or mortgage arrears; and (4) rapid exit from shelter. This study provides insight into approaches that will help prevent homelessness. It is an important contribution to our understanding of how to help homeless Americans.

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Nova Publishers

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1600212085

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9781600212086

What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?

By: R. Burt,J. Yates

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What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?

By: R. Burt,J. Yates

What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, turning the conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture.

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Springer

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1137346094

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Over the Edge

The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

By: Martha M. Burt

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Over the Edge

The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

By: Martha M. Burt

Often described as an emergency, homelessness in America is becoming a chronic condition that reflects an overall decline in the nation's standard of living and the general state of the economy. This is the disturbing conclusion drawn by Martha Burt in Over the Edge, a timely book that takes a clear-eyed look at the astonishing surge in the homeless population during the 1980s. Assembling and analyzing data from 147 U.S. cities, Burt documents the increase in homelessness and proposes a comprehensive explanation of its causes, incorporating economic, personal, and policy determinants. Her unique research answers many provocative questions: Why did homelessness continue to spiral even after economic conditions improved in 1983? Why is it significantly greater in cities with both high poverty rates and high per capita income? What can be done about the problem? Burt points to the significant catalysts of homelessness—the decline of manufacturing jobs in the inner city, the increased cost of living, the tight rental housing market, diminished household income, and reductions in public benefit programs—all of which exert pressures on the more vulnerable of the extremely poor. She looks at the special problems facing the homeless, including the growing number of mentally ill and chemically dependent individuals, and explains why certain groups—minorities and low-skilled men, single men and women, and families headed by women—are at greatest risk of becoming homeless. Burt's analysis reveals that homelessness arises from no single factor, but is instead perpetuated by pivotal interactions between external social and economic conditions and personal vulnerabilities. From an understanding of these interactions, Over the Edge builds lucid, realistic recommendations for policymakers struggling to alleviate a situation of grave consequence for our entire society.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871541785

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9780871541789

Leading the Hare Krishna Movement

The Crisis of Succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

By: Angela R. Burt

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Leading the Hare Krishna Movement

The Crisis of Succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

By: Angela R. Burt

This book examines issues of leadership and succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) which was founded in by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966. After the founder’s death in 1977, the movement was led by a group of gurus in a "zonal system" until their authority was challenged and reformed in the mid-1980s. At the heart of the book is an exploration of the developments, conflicts, and defining characteristics of leadership in ISKCON in this decade. Themes of hierarchy, status, power and authority, and the routinisation of charisma are shown to be keys to understanding the events of the time. With careful analysis of interviews and documentary evidence, the research offers a unique insight into ISKCON as an organisation and the broader religious community in which ISKCON is located. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of new religious movements and those concerned with religious leadership.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003815154

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9781003815150

Over the Edge

The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

By: Martha M. Burt

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The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871541777

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9780871541772

Building Supportive Communities for At-risk Adolescents

It Takes More Than Services

By: Martha R. Burt,Gary Resnick,Emily R. Novick

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Building Supportive Communities for At-risk Adolescents

It Takes More Than Services

By: Martha R. Burt,Gary Resnick,Emily R. Novick

The authors of "Building Supportive Communities for At-Risk Adolescents" stress prevention, protection, and early detection and recommend an integrated network to address the comprehensive needs of today's youth. They profile nine of the nation's premier youth serving programs, which provide a mix of educational, counseling, recreational, vocational, and leadership activities.

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Amer Psychological Assn

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1557984662

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9781557984661

Book's by R. Burt

Helping America's Homeless

Helping America's Homeless

Drug Abuse

Drug Abuse

Homelessness

Homelessness

Shakespeare After Mass Media

Shakespeare After Mass Media

Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families

Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families

Blessings of the Burden

Blessings of the Burden

Drug Abuse

Drug Abuse

Homelessness

Homelessness

What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?

What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?

Over the Edge

Over the Edge

Leading the Hare Krishna Movement

Leading the Hare Krishna Movement

Over the Edge

Over the Edge

Building Supportive Communities for At-risk Adolescents

Building Supportive Communities for At-risk Adolescents

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