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contains more than 500 books, articles, videos and other publications about homelessness and related topics. We encourage you to check out materials out from our library. Registered THN members may check out resources free of charge; nonmembers are charged a fee of $5.00 per item. We continually update our holdings and gladly welcome suggestions for new publications. For more information or to suggest new resources, write to elaine@thn.org.
2001 Texas Council on Family Violence
Technical Assistance Resource Book
This binder includes up-to-date information on a variety of domestic violence issues and programs. It is updated quarterly.
Child Care Expenses of America’s Families
This report begins by describing the child care expenses of America’s families at the national level and then turns to analysis of the 12 focal states. For both analyses, three aspects of expenses are examined: the percentage of working families paying for child care, the average expenses among those that do pay for care, and the average percentage of earnings spent for child care. The publication uses a 1997 survey to look at the child care expenses of working families with children under the age of 13.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Programs,
Technical Assistance
This grant requested funding for technical assistance targeting communities that have either not developed a Continuum of Care plan, or been successful in receiving HUD homeless assistance for their plan. It also targeted communities identified by HUD that have received homeless assistance funding and need help administering these funds. The focus of the program is to promote a Continuum of Care that provides the resources needed to help homeless persons make the transition to maximum self-sufficiency.
Community Viability:
Building Communities Together
This is a Coordinated Technical Assistance published by US Department of Urban Development Office of Community Planning Development. It includes a fact sheet about the community viability fund as well as information about promoting and sustaining community viability and development. It also presents specialized HUD program proposals and resources.
Consumer-Directed Home and
Community Services: Policy Issues
This study assess the policy implications of consumer-directed home and community service for older persons by examining the experience of public programs that serve this populations in eight states. These programs give beneficiaries, rather than agencies, the power to hire, train, supervise, and fire workers.
The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children II:
What Has Changed since 1996?
This report uses data from the 1997 and 1999 Child Welfare Surveys to examine child welfare spending in FYs 1996 and 1998. States were asked to provide the expenditure data for the programs, case managements, administration, and operation of their child welfare systems. This data included staffing and administrative expenses and expenditures on services provided by another agency under contract to the child welfare agency. States were asked to provide expenditure data from federal, state, and local resources and to categorize how the funds were used.
A Homeless Fair Planning Guide
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition planned a homeless fair in October of 1997, and this binder includes their minutes and other pertinent information about how they organized the event, which provided a one-stop outlet for homeless persons to receive food, clothing, haircuts, photo ID’s. It includes volunteer solicitation letters, brochures, and press kits.
HUD Budget: FY 2001
The budget includes increases in every core program, for an overall total of $32.1 billion—$5 billion more than last year’s landmark budget.
State Child Care Profile for Children with
Employed Mothers: Texas
A publication of The Urban Institute’s Assessing New Federalism project, this publication is based on the 1997 National Survey of America’s Families. The publication paints the most comprehensive statistical picture of Texas child care patterns available. As you look closely at the challenges families face finding child care or consider state policy initiatives on child care supply, subsidies, licensing, tax credits, or universal pre-K, you may find this a valuable resource. It includes a “Key Facts” section, which highlights salient findings on child care for infants and toddlers, school-age children, and child care expenses. A detailed comparison of Texas to the nation— with data on variations in child care patterns by age of child, family earnings, parent education and work status, and race/ethnicity— follows.
Texas Homeless Network Collaborative
Mental Health Training Project
This grant was submitted to the HOGG Foundation in November of 1998. It was written by THN Executive Director Kathy Reid, VISTA Jennifer Malone, and THN Board Member Ann Denton. The grant explains how THN developed a project to provide training materials and technical assistance to shelter operators across the state. The project was created in order to combat the problem of a lack of access to emergency shelters for homeless persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
A Vision for Change: The Story of
HUD’s Transformation
This full color illustrated report tells the story of HUD’s recent changes— recovering from the trend that began in the mid 1960s that caused HUD to become the only entire Federal agency ever to be designated “high risk” by the US General Accounting Office. It describes the secretary’s initiative to start anew with each program in order to prove competence. HUD created their department anew.
Who’s Caring for our Youngest Children? Child Care Patterns of Infants and Toddlers
This paper uses 1997 NSAF data to look at the child care patterns of age three and under children of working mothers in the US. It examines three aspects of care—types of care, hours in care, and the number of nonparental arrangements.
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