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- Title
HOMELESSNESS AMONG OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: INTERPRETING A SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUE THROUGH THE ARTS IN COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH.
- Authors
FEEN-CALLIGAN, HOLLY; WASHINGTON, OLIVIA G. M.; MOXLEY, DAVID P.
- Abstract
This article describes the incorporation of the arts into a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) project formulated to develop and test practices for helping homeless older African-American women. Studying how older African-American women become homeless has evolved into developing and testing promising interventions by the Leaving Homelessness Intervention Research Project (LHIRP). The women's participation in creative group activities helped them to communicate their experience with homelessness, express their concerns, develop personal strengths, and obtained mutual understanding. The use of multiple art forms has revealed a number of creative strengths among the participants, which have in turn inspired innovative artistic strategies and methodologies as part of the multiple methods that LHIRP incorporates. These interventions have been useful in helping participants resolve their homelessness. The role and benefit of the arts in CBPAR is described to show how creative activities help researchers and the public to better understand the complexities of homelessness.
- Subjects
AFRICAN American homeless women; OLDER homeless persons; COMMUNICATION &; the arts; PARTICIPANT observation; COMMUNITIES; SERVICES for homeless people
- Publication
New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 4, p423
- ISSN
1048-2911
- Publication type
Article