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Item Heading Home Hennepin Housing First Program Evaluation(Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-05-13) Barry, Tim; Bashir, Naima; Esmaeili, Mittra; Larson, Kerstin; Reneau-Major, Tim; Trupke-Bastidas, JulieAt the start of 2009, Hennepin County entered the third year of its ten-year plan to end homelessness. This bold collaborative effort began amidst a broader national movement to end homelessness that has been gaining momentum in states and counties across the country. Hennepin County.s plan, Heading Home Hennepin, built upon these national best practices and laid out a comprehensive plan with definitive benchmarks to end homelessness by the year 2016. The present study evaluates one component of the Heading Home Hennepin plan: housing first programs targeting single adults who are long-term homeless. For the purposes of this report, these programs are collectively referred to as the “Housing First” program. While distinctions exist among the individual programs, all align with a common approach which focuses on immediate placement into housing combined with the availability of supportive services. The evaluation utilizes a mixed-method approach that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The first component of the quantitative analysis uses administrative data on county shelter use to assess whether the composition of shelter users has changed since the Housing First program began. Using rolling three year windows, it computes the number of nights and episodes of shelter stays of all individuals in shelters from 2005-2008. It also compares prior shelter days and episodes of shelter use of individuals placed into housing to those not placed into housing to assess whether the program effectively targeted the long-term homeless. The second component of the quantitative analysis draws on four different administrative data sets to estimate the impact of the Housing First program on participants. shelter use, access to health insurance, and encounters with police. This analysis uses a matched comparison group of individuals who were not placed into housing, but were similar in terms of age, gender and prior shelter use to control for economic or programmatic changes that may have coincided with implementation of the Housing First program. All outcomes were assessed during three-, six-, and twelve-month intervals before and after placement into housing.Item Improving Literacy of L1-Non-Literate and L1-Literate Adult English as a Second Language Learners(Minnesota and Wisconsin Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2007) Trupke-Bastidas, Julie; Poulos, AndreaThis research focuses on effective practices for teaching reading to both adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learners acquiring literacy for the first time in English and learners who are already literate in their first language. This study examines if learners’ phonemic awareness and decoding are improved when using a whole-part-whole instructional method that combines a focus on higher and lower-level skills. Participants include nine females from East Africa: five non-literate (L1-non-literate) and four literate (L1-literate) in their first language. Participants were given pre and posttests of phonemic awareness and decoding and then whole-part-whole reading instruction for 10 weeks. This intervention impacted L1-nonliterate participants the most. Those learners who scored the lowest on pretests showed the most gains on the posttest.