ERIC Number: EJ1029631
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 13
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Social Justice Manifest: A University-Community Partnership to Promote the Individual Right to Housing
Patterson, David A.; Cronley, Courtney; West, Stacia; Lantz, Jennifer
Journal of Social Work Education, v50 n2 p234-246 2014
This article examines an ongoing university-community relationship that fuses innovative technology delivery, university-outreach research, and social work practice/research education into a unique, collaborative intervention to reduce homelessness. In doing so, we apply a social justice framework to homelessness, arguing that housing is a right rather than a privilege. In the case study, a university, in partnership with a local homeless coalition, maintains a management information system to collect and analyze real-time data on homelessness in the community. The overarching social justice intention of this partnership is to improve client outcomes for homeless individuals by producing community-based research to inform policy decisions for governmental and organizational partners.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Intervention, School Community Programs, Social Work, Counselor Training, Innovation, Homeless People, Management Systems, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Outreach Programs, Program Descriptions, Graduate Students, Volunteers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee
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