- Title
- Assertive outreach with women experiencing homelessness: a rapid review of the literature
- Creator
- Blakemore, Tamara; Stuart, Graeme; McGregor, Joel
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- report
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- This rapid review identified key themes in existing literature that could help Nova for Women and Children develop a specialist assertive outreach program for women experiencing homelessness in the Hunter region of NSW. Initial searches identified 809 sources for review. After duplicates and papers clearly not related to assertive outreach were removed, a total of 116 sources were screened and 70 assessed in depth for suitability. To be included, papers needed to discuss assertive outreach in the context of homelessness or crisis, be gender inclusive, and culturally appropriate for an Australian context. A total of 30 sources (including journal articles, reports and book chapters) were identified as relevant to the review. Narrative synthesis of the literature noted key themes that largely coalesce around the intersecting concepts of people and practice in place. Key themes that relate to people include: the attributes of assertive outreach workers, safety, and the unsettling silence of the voices of those experiencing homelessness in the existing evidence base for practice. Key themes that relate to practice, including engagement, models of assertive outreach, principles of practice, and interagency collaboration, are all relevant to working with women.
- Subject
- homelessness; women; assertive Outreach; homeless women
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1427125
- Identifier
- uon:38516
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780725901257
- Rights
- © 2021. Nova for Women and Children This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.
- Language
- eng
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