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.…
Children of all ages who live in homeless shelters have trouble getting to school. This means that half of students living in shelter are chronically absent, missing 20 or more school days in one year. That’s almost four times the rate of housed students who were not low income. What is the cause of this…
With the launch of the 2017 On the Map: The Atlas of Student Homelessness in New York City, we see that student homelessness is rapidly growing in New York City public schools.…
ICPH provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about family homelessness.…
ICPH invites service providers, practitioners, policy makers, homeless and formerly homeless individuals, advocates, and researchers to submit presentation proposals for the Beyond Housing 2018 Conference to be held January 10-12, 2018.…
Join ICPH principal policy analyst Jennifer Erb-Downward as she walks you through the unique needs and risks these students face, revealed in the new report, More Than a Place to Sleep: Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Homeless High School Students.…
Join fellow practitioners, policy makers, 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.…
The Journal of Children and Poverty (JCP) publishes innovative research in the areas of education, health, public policy, and the socioeconomic causes and effects of poverty in the developed world.…
After more than 20 years, ICPH, Routledge, and Taylor & Francis have agreed to discontinue publishing the Journal of Children and Poverty at the end of 2020. It has been a pleasure collaborating with individuals, groups, and organizations from across the globe to push forward the important research and conversation about children, poverty, and homelessness. JCP is…
Dr. Kristen BubUniversity of Georgia Dr. Demetrios CaraleyColumbia University Dr. Steve CohenColumbia University Dr. Jami CurleySt. Louis University Dr. Amy DworskyUniversity of Chicago Dr. William Elliott IIIUniversity of Michigan Jennifer Erb-Downward, MPHPoverty Solutions at the University of Michigan Dr. Michal Grinstein-WeissWashington University at St. Louis Dr. Andrea HetlingRutgers University Dr. Karen M. KolivoskiHoward University Dr.…
Editor-in-Chief Ralph da Costa Nunez, PhDInstitute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness Development Editor Linda BazerjianInstitute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness Administrative Editor Robyn SchwartzInstitute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness…