The Mission of Little Portion Friary is to journey with the homeless, providing temporary shelter, meals, and counseling during their struggle to acquire permanent housing and jobs.
It focuses on the basic values and social structures of homeless sheltering agencies in Western New York to determine if agencies operate through a medicalized discourse of homelessness, developing policy within the shelter from such medicalized homeless concepts, or whether a more social discourse ...
At the end of 1937 The Buffalo was saved by a red-haired Irish man, a 20 year old contractor and amateur wrestler from Kerry called Bill Fuller. It was still a tough place –“We’d get all the Connemara lads in, and they were all well used to fighting, those were wild days you ...
if the building’s new owner agrees to a deal. Phillip Ruthen of New York City, who leads a group of wealthy investors, is the latest in a new line of suitors for Buffalo’s tallest building, which dominates the city skyline from its...
Department of PsychologyState University of New York Park Hall 14260 BuffaloNew YorkJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdAmerican Journal of Community PsychologyToro PA, McDonell DM. Beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge about homelessness: a survey of the general public. Am J Community Psychol 1992;20(1):53-80...
It focuses on the basic values and social structures of homeless sheltering agencies in Western New York to determine if agencies operate through a medicalized discourse of homelessness, developing policy within the shelter from such medicalized homeless concepts, or whether a more social discourse ...
homelessness prevention;public health;homelessness management information systems;shelter diversion;early intervention;right to housing 1. Introduction Experiences of homelessness are associated with several other challenges for youth. These include poor mental [1] and physical health [2]; exposure to viol...