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Sharing Expertise and Questions

Much of the expertise in working with homeless families and children resides in workers in local shelters and in homeless families themselves who have figured out, usually by trial and error, approaches or techniques that are effective. Very rarely are these approaches and this expertise shared outside of the agency or community. This website hopes to be a means for sharing this valuable information.

If you have developed approaches or handouts in written form that could be attached to the website, please e-mail them to homewords@uww.edu. If you have discovered approaches or have developed insights into effective work with families and children who are homeless, e-mail these in any form to homewords@uww.edu (include a telephone number). Putting these comments on the website could be valuable to others.

There are listservs on Helping Clients Plan for the Future, Integrating Service Provision and Advocacy, and Parenting while Homeless. In subscribing to one of these listservs, those who work with homeless families and children have the opportunity ask questions and respond to each other. The dialogues in the website also serve as an indication of the need for additional content on the website.

Your reactions to the content on the website are also valued. If there is material that you think is helpful or that you think is inaccurate or does not fit with your experience, please let us know. If there are areas that we need to include on this website, please let us know. Another way to indicate potential training needs is to take an on-line survey at
http://www.inetsurvey.com/Survey.cgi/HomeWords/UWWHome/ which is used as a needs assessment for this website.

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Last Updated January 24, 2001