Managing the unexpected
The role of homeless service providers during the 2017–2018 California wildfires
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People experiencing homelessness during the 2017–2018 California wildfires faced significant risks of disruption. Homeless service organizations (HSOs) are an essential safety net for this population. To learn about how HSOs performed during the wildfires, this study interviewed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) staff overseeing HSOs providing transitional housing under the VA's Grant and Per Diem (GPD) program to Veterans experiencing homelessness. We employed a comparative case study approach exploring GPD organizations' disaster response actions, including evacuating Veterans from wildfire‐affected areas or taking in disaster‐displaced Veterans. This article presents three themes in the GPD organizations' disaster response: (1) Organizations benefitted from close collaboration and communication with the VA during the disaster, creating a safety net to ensure Veterans' well‐being and enact rapid re‐housing to prevent homelessness; (2) Organization staff performed heroically under stressful disaster conditions; and (3) Organizations benefitted from the written disaster plans that VA requires them to create, but were not as well‐prepared for wildfires as they had been for earthquakes. As emergent threats such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, wildfires, and a very active 2020 hurricane season amplify the importance of mitigating risks, comprehensive disaster planning is needed to ensure the safety and support of people experiencing homelessness
Business · Service (business) · Service provider · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
On the Front Lines
“Don’t care, you gotta move”
Extreme weather events and HIV
Preparing for the Worst
Representations of wildfires in academia
Vaccinating Veterans Experiencing Homelessness for Covid-19
Neoliberalism, Climate Change, and Displaced and Homeless Populations
A Qualitative Exploration of Frontline Homeless Service Worker Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social Vulnerability in US Communities Affected by Wildfire Smoke, 2011 to 2021
Disaster Preparedness in Social Work
Basics of qualitative research
Social Capital, Community Resilience, and Faith‐Based Organizations in Disaster Recovery
Case Study Research
A Purposeful Approach to the Constant Comparative Method in the Analysis of Qualitative Interviews
Disaster Hits Home
Non‐profit response to catastrophic disasters
Global Climate Implications for Homelessness
Using an intersectional approach to advance understanding of homeless persons’ vulnerability to disaster
Insights Into Wildfire Mitigation Decisions Among Wildland–Urban Interface Residents
Disaster risk at the margins
Latent Homeless Risk Profiles of a National Sample of Homeless Veterans and Their Relation to Program Referral and Admission Patterns
Disaster Planning and Risk Communication With Vulnerable Communities
Local Nonprofit Organizations in a Post-Katrina Landscape
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