At - risk
of homelessness is defined as: an individual who is in a doubled - up living arrangement where the individual's name is not on the lease, boarding house, eviction notice, halfway house, residential
treatment program, rent or utilities in arrears, transitional housing, or youth
transitioning out of foster care, or being discharged from an institution or correctional facility without a place to live.
These include the Child Study, a multi-site longitudinal randomized controlled trial
of the Friends
of the Children professional youth mentoring program; the Relief Nursery Study, a randomized controlled trial
of a multimodal therapeutic preschool program for at risk children and families; the Parent Child Study, a randomized trial
of Parenting Inside
Out, a parent management training with incarcerated parents within adult corrections; the Paths Project, a study
of the
transition into young adulthood for youth who were heavily involved with the juvenile justice system and who participated in a randomized trial
of Multidimensional
Treatment Foster Care (MTFC, now known as
Treatment Foster Care Oregon); and the Linking the Interests
of Families and Teachers (LIFT) Project, a study
of the
transitions into young adulthood for participants in a randomized multi-modal school - based prevention intervention program that began during elementary school.