Publications

CHILDREN
•  Homeless Youth Count in Philadelphia: The Results of Adding a Housing Question to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (April 2010)
• What Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Familes says about children (April 2010)
• FSPN Children's Committee Promising Practices (June 2009)
• Analysis of State Report Card on Child Homelessness: National Data for America’s Youngest Outcasts (April 2009)
• Testimony: Congressional Briefing - America's Youngest Outcast's: State Report Card on Child Homelessness (March 10, 2009)
• The Porch Light Project, Promoting Permanence (January 2009)
• The Economic Crisis Hits Home:The Unfolding Increase in Child and Youth Homelessness (January 2009)
• Philadelphia's Homeless School Age Children (October 2008)
• Homeless Kids Count In Philadelphia (October 2008)
• Schools, Skills, and Synapses: The ability gap of disadvantaged children (October 2008)
 

EDUCATION
• Family Service Provider Network Releases Annual Performance Report for The School District of Philadelphia (April 2010)
• Support Homeless Education Improvements, PEC Policy Brief (January 2010)
• Education and Homeless Children: Part I – Counting Homeless Children (November 2009)
• Fourth Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (August 2009)
• Homeless Mothers in Allegheny County Surveyed (August 2009)
• Education for Homeless Children and Youth Annual Performance Report for FY 2007-08 -- School District of Philadelphia (May 2009)
• Classrooms with Revolving Doors: Recommended Practices for Middle Level and High School Teachers of At-Risk and Highly Mobile Students. (January 2009)
• Update on Comparing Data for the Education for Homeless Children (July 2008)
• Education for Homeless Children (March 2008)
• State of Black Philadelphia (March 2008)
 

HOMELESS (GENERAL)
• Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families (April 2010)
• PEC Policy Brief: Is Family Homelessness Increasing? (January 2009)
• Testimony: Policy Position of Advocacy Coalition for Homeless Families (January, 2008)
 

HOUSING
• Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families (April 2010)
• 2009 HUD Update: Funding Levels and Guidelines Part I (May 2009)
• The State of the Nation's Housing (July 2008)
• The Mt. Laurel Decision - Considerations for Policy in Pennsylvania (May 2008)
• Senate SERVA bill (March 2008)


POVERTY
• The Recession’s Impact on the Safety Net in Ohio and Pennsylvania (March 2009)
• Sustainable Communities Outline, Part 1 (October 2008)
• American Community Survey Data on Income, Earnings, and Poverty For 2007  (September 2008)

DATA
• Homeless Families in the Fifth Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (July 2010)
• 2009 HUD Update: Funding Levels and Guidelines Part I (May 2009)
• Summary of Family Issues Identified in the 3rd Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, Part 2 (October 2008)
• 3rd Annual Homeless Survey Report to Congress, Part 1 (August 2008)
• Office of Supportive Housing's Children Report (July 2008)
 

BUDGET
• U.S. House of Representatives Proposes New Investments (February 2009)
• Pennsylvania Budget Crisis (December 2008)
• Children's Federal Budget 2008 (June 2008)
 

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CHILDREN
• Office of Supportive Housing's Children Report (July 2008)
• Children's Federal Budget 2008 (June 2008)
• Family Homelessness and Child Welfare Policy Brief (May 2008)
• The Bottom Line is Children - PCCY Report (March 2008)
• Science Based Framework for  Early Childhood (January 2008)
• PSS-Aged Out and Homeless (December 2007)
• Disabled Children & McKinney Vento Reauthorization (November 2007)
• Out of Home Placement Fantuzzo (November 2007)
• UPenn Adm Data Set - KIDS (November 2007)
• Homeless Children (October 2007)
• Lead Poisoning (October 2007)
• Urban Institute - Investing in Children (September 2007)
• Homeless and Children and Families for Nutter Administration  (July, 2007)
• Brief to Philadelphia School District officials about the educational needs of homeless children (June 28, 2006)
• Homeless Children in Philadelphia: Promising Approaches and Recommendations (December 2004)
 

HOMELESS (GENERAL)
• McKinney Vento Testimony Part V (November 2007)
• McKinney Vento Testimony Part I (October 2007
• McKinney Vento Testimony Part II (October 2007)
• McKinney Vento Testimony Part III (October 2007)
• McKinney Vento Testimony Part IV (October 2007)
• Mental Illness Housing First (September 2007)
• Testimony: PEC Testimony to U.S. Senate on Homeless Legislation (June 21, 2007)
• Testimony: Gloria M. Guard, President, People’s Emergency Center, at Town Hall Meeting of the Philadelphia Child Welfare Review Panel, Wednesday (April 11 , 2007)
• Testimony: City Homeless Budget (April 2007)
• Pennsylvania: Casualty of Federal Homeless Policy (March 2007)
• New Research on Philadelphia/s Homeless Families (September 2006)
• The Case for Preserving Transitional Housing for Homeless Families (April 2006)
• Testimony: PEC to U.S. Senate on Homeless Legislation (March 30, 2006)
• Testimony: PEC to to Philadelphia City Council (November 2005)
 

POVERTY
• Low Income Workers (September 2007)
• Radio Interview: Welfare To Work: Is it Working? - Gloria Guard and Ron Haskins (of Brookings Institute) by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY-FM Radio (July 11, 2006)
 

DATA
• Sound Families - Housing Stability (February 2008)
• Sound Families - life after transitional housing 3 of 3 (February 2008)
• Sound Families - Parts 1,2,3, Combined (January 2008)
• Sound Families - children Part 1 of 3 (January 2008)
• Hunger and Homelessness Survey II (December 2007)
 

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