The premise of this thesis is to explore the transition of spaces through thresholds. This exploration begins with the urban environment and how one transitions through spaces into private spaces. In particular, this thesis addresses battered women and children and how their transition in life relates to transitional spaces. The journey began with research of precedence. However, the existence of shelters for battered women and children is relatively new. Therefore, I began at the roots of housing, community housing, monasteries, orphanages and dormitories. I also drew from my own experiences with roommates, dorm life and group situations. This design reflects the transition of spaces and how that relates to the life of battered women and children. The site is located in Washington, DC. / Master of Architecture

In this research, I examine the mediating role of transit and the mobility needs and experience of individuals who are homeless in the suburban community of Surrey, BC. I have used Harvey’s (2005) conception of social spatial sorting as a means of understanding the suburbanization of poverty and Galtung’s structural violence (1969) as a means of understanding the experience of homeless transit access. I employed a multiple case study, using semi-structured interviews, with residents and staff of three homeless shelters, located in three distinct neighbourhoods in Surrey. A cross-case analysis of the interview data was undertaken, to draw conclusions and recommendations for policy development and research concerning the transit needs of people who are homeless. To provide a policy context, a review of existing transit access programs available for people who are homeless and/or low-income is presented demonstrating the range of criteria and best practices. Four dimensions of transit access were identified by residents and staff: physical, temporal, social and financial (Kenyon et al., 2003). Residents had the most constrained agency (Coe & Jordhus-Lier et al., 2010) in relation to the physical and temporal dimensions, so that these dimensions became the most problematic in this suburban context. The importance of considering and understanding the geographic context of shelters and potential impacts on mobility and social inclusion for shelter residents, exiting from homelessness, are demonstrated. / Graduate

A nivel nacional, Lima es el único departamento que cuenta con la mayor cantidad de oncólogos clínicos, es por ello, que niños que requieren tratamiento médico deben movilizarse a este departamento; y la gran mayoría no cuenta con solvencia económica para optar por un lugar donde alojarse. El albergue para niños con cáncer y familiares de provincia, nace como respuesta a esta necesidad; por lo que este trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo, brindar un lugar de alojamiento para niños con cáncer que reciben tratamiento en el Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño – San Borja. Los criterios de diseño están definidos por las necesidades que requieren los niños, y más aún con diagnóstico de cáncer, desde la estructura tipológica hasta la identificación de los espacios que ayudan en el estado de ánimo y su pronta recuperación, al igual que el énfasis de espacios intermedios que permite la relación de lo exterior e interior, aportando a una mejor solución arquitectónica. Es así que este albergue para niños con cáncer y familiares de provincia, busca brindar un aporte social y arquitectónico a los niños diagnosticados con cáncer, quienes no cuentan con un lugar que les brinde el apoyo que necesitan, y más aún si no cuentan con los medios económicos y vienen de diversas partes del Perú. / [At the national level, Lima is the only department that has the largest number of clinical oncologists, which is why children who seek medical treatment should move to this department; and the vast majority do not have the financial solvency to uproot their lives to find treatment. A shelter for children with cancer and provincial family members, could be the solution to this need; therefore, this research aims to present how to provide a place of accommodation for children with cancer receiving treatment at the National Institute of Child Health - San Borja. The criteria for design are determined by the needs that children require, and even more so with a diagnosis of cancer. From the typological structure to the identification of safe spaces that help prompt recovery, as well as the emphasis on intermediate spaces that allow the facilitate architectural solutions from within and outside the proposed project. Therefore, such a shelter for children with cancer and relatives seeks to provide a social and architectural solution to children diagnosed with cancer, who do not have a place that provides the support they need, especially if they do not have the economic means to relocate near medical providers. / Trabajo de investigación

Tornadoes are always dangerous, but inside a motor vehicle they are especially problematic due to an automobile’s smaller size and structure. Tornado fatalities in motor vehicles have not decreased in recent years despite downward trends in total tornado fatalities. Receiving tornado warnings is difficult inside a motor vehicle, particularly when alone in the vehicle. Controlled access highways are also difficult places to find shelter as access is limited to interchanges, while buildings at interchanges may not be able to withstand an intense tornado. Electronic signs and audible messages on mobile communications devices are the most suitable technologies available for reaching motorists. At each interchange, shelters capable of withstanding a violent tornado should be constructed or retrofitted, allowing motorists – and nearby residents – a safe place to shelter nearby. Constructing such shelters will take considerable time and significant cost but will go a long way towards the goal of a Weather-Ready Nation.

Ambitionen i denna studie är att synliggöra hur en lokal kvinnojour i Malmö arbetar med ett barnperspektiv samt vilka faktorer som kan ha försvårat respektive främjat implementeringen av det. Detta då kvinnojouren under tre år haft ett barnprojekt, vilket syftat till att implementera ett barnperspektiv i jourens verksamhet. Denna kvalitativa studie är inspirerad av processutvärdering som metod och baseras på intervjuer med socialsekreterare, anställda på jouren och en representant från Rädda Barnen. För att analysera hur de arbetar med ett barnperspektiv har jag utgått från delaktighetsperspektivet och omsorgsperspektivet, båda centrala begrepp i Barnkonventionen. För att analysera vilka faktorer som kan ha främjat respektive försvårat implementeringen av ett barnperspektiv har jag bland annat utgått från organisations- och implementeringsteorier. Det framkommer i studien att kvinnojouren idag arbetar utifrån ett barnperspektiv, men i vilken utsträckning är med utgångspunkt i empirin inte möjligt att precisera. Att det finns flera faktorer som kan ha både främjat och försvårat implementeringen är tydligt. Bland annat var de anställdas vilja en främjande implementeringsfaktor, medan avsaknaden av krav på ett barnperspektiv från socialsekreterarna troligen har påverkat implementeringen negativt. / The ambition of this study is to shed light on how a women’s shelter is working with the Child Perspective. The shelter has internally operated a three years long project with the specific aim of implementing the Child Perspective in all of its activities. Thus, the study highlights the influencing factors that support and/or hinder the realization of the Child Perspective in the organization’s actions. This study uses qualitative methodology, inspired by the approach of Process Evaluation. Empirical findings are based on interviews with employees working at the women’s shelter, social workers, as well as a representative from the organization Save the Children. The Participatory Approach and the Care Perspective, two central concepts in the internationally recognized Child Convention, are decisive tools in enabling the analysis of how the interviewees apply the Child Perspective in their daily work. While analyzing the influencing factors, concepts from two theories have been applied: Organization and Implementation Theory. The study reveals that the staff at the women’s shelter does apply a Child Perspective in much of its work, but in which extent is hard to pin down. In the study several factors that might have affected the implementation, both negatively and positively, appear. One supportive factor in the implementation was that the staff at the women’s shelter, wanted to implement a Child Perspective in their daily work. A potential hindering factor was the social workers ́ lack of demand on the shelter to apply a Child Perspective.

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BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness (PEH) commonly experience “tri-morbidity,” whereby the effects of physical illness, mental illness, and substance use disorder combine to produce complex healthcare needs. Tiny home villages, or communities comprised of dwellings that are 400-square feet or smaller, have emerged in the U.S. as one option to bridge the gap between living on the street and temporary or permanent shelter. However, whether these communities have been successful in connecting PEH to health services has not been well explored. House of Hope Community Development Corporation sought recommendations for health care services organization and delivery at ECHO Village, a temporary tiny home village in Rhode Island, to meet the health care needs of its clients. AIMS: (1) To characterize barriers and opportunities to engage PEH in care from the perspective of health care providers using the CDC’s 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma Informed Approach; (2) to assess the health care priorities and barriers and facilitators to care from the perspective of PEH using the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations, and (3) to inform recommendations for health services delivery for ECHO Village and for similar homelessness service settings more broadly. METHODS: Literature was reviewed on evidence-based practices for providing health care to PEH, tiny home villages for PEH, and emergency, temporary housing. A matrix was developed to collect and organize descriptive data to select a comparison tiny home village. In Aim 1, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted with health care providers and other key informants in Rhode Island and at Avivo Village, a tiny home village for PEH in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to characterize barriers and opportunities to engage PEH in health care. In Aim 2, 10 in-depth interviews with Avivo Village residents were conducted to identify health care priorities, barriers, and facilitators to care. The 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach and the Behavioral Model were used to create initial coding frameworks for provider and resident interviews, respectively. Through an iterative process, codes were refined to aggregate data into patterns of meaning, emerging themes were revealed, and similarities and differences were identified through consensus coding for interpretation purposes. The Behavioral Model was used to assess the role of predisposing, enabling, and needs factors in health services utilization through a structured survey of 93 adults aged ≥18 experiencing homelessness in Rhode Island. Associations between subsistence difficulty and five health utilization outcomes using bivariate tests of survey data were evaluated. Binomial logistic regressions were run to explore the effects of predictor variables on these outcomes. RESULTS: Thematic analysis revealed that the tiny home village setting could facilitate the care of PEH by (1) overcoming many of the common barriers to receiving care for people who had been excluded from traditional shelters and other critical services, (2) affording a sense of safety and security for PEH, and (3) allowing PEH time and space to gain stability to focus on self-identified goals at their own pace. The importance of patient empowerment, peer support, mixed communities in which people in various stages of recovery live together, and non-judgmental providers also emerged as facilitators of care. Quantitative results showed that subsistence difficulty predicted going without needed care for the past 12 months at p <.05. Adjustment for potential confounders did not change our inferences. CONCLUSION: Several promising practices exist for health service organization and delivery in the tiny home village setting that can be replicated, scaled, and sustained regardless of model or service mix. Given the significant barriers to accessing healthcare faced by PEH, the tiny home village setting can serve as an effective engagement point for PEH, particularly for those averse to traditional shelters or care settings. / 2024-07-05T00:00:00Z

Våldsutsatta kvinnor kan vända sig till kvinnojourer för att söka hjälp, stöd och skydd. Där arbetar kvinnor som har en anställning men även kvinnor som arbetar ideellt. Att arbeta med människor kan upplevas emotionellt påfrestande. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad som motiverar kvinnor att arbeta ideellt på kvinnojourer, samt om de upplever emotionell påverkan till följd av arbetet med våldsutsatta kvinnor. Semistrukturerade intervjuer med 12 ideellt arbetande kvinnor genomfördes, som sedan analyserades med tematiskanalys. Resultatet påvisade viljan att göra något meningsfullt, engagemanget i samhällsfrågan våld mot kvinnor och att tro på framtiden motiverar till ideellt arbete på kvinnojourer. Känslor till följd av uppdraget påvisades vara styrkan i gemenskapen, känsla av frustration och otillräcklighet samt känslan av att uppdraget är en större känslomässig vinst än förlust. Resultat av studien kan bidra till att motivera flera kvinnor att arbeta ideellt och främja välbefinnandet på arbetsplatser vid möten med våldsutsatta.

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