Homeless & Pregnant: Nursing Students Respond By Bob Carver, BA, MDiv, ADN, RN
Overview Community: Pierce County Subpopulation: Pregnant Homeless Women Issue: insufficient housing for homeless Coalitions that aid pregnant women Students’ Research
Pierce County with data on where homeless pregnant women come from Created by Data Committee TNURS 414, Spring Quarter, 2014
Does this look like a nursery? baltimorebrew.com
Created by Data Committee TNURS 414, Spring Quarter, 2014
Numbers of homeless pregnant women Created by Data Committee TNURS 414, Spring Quarter, 2014
Homeless and Pregnant Photo credit: TNURS 414 class Winter Quarter, 2014
Homeless and Pregnant
Issue: Insufficient housing inventory for the homeless Photo credit: Robert Carver, RN
Pregnant Homeless Women go to the head of the line, but… Photo by Robert Carver
community coalitions Perinatal Collaborative of Pierce County logo
community coalitions Perinatal Collaborative of Pierce County logo
RN to BSN program goal Photo: Robert Carver
Student projects Photo of BSN students here Photo: Robert Carver
Developed materials for pregnant homeless women Developed by students in TNURS 414 Spring Quarter, 2014
Developed materials for pregnant homeless women Developed by students in TNURS 414 Spring Quarter, 2014
Visit homeless shelters, Homeless Connect, Attend meetings Retrieved from
Annotated bibliography (a response to requests by grant writers)… Documenting lifelong neurologic, metabolic, and immunologic problems for the child Best practices and models for housing pregnant and homeless women
Summaries of Housing Services and HUD Definitions by Agency Agency Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing Shared Housing Pregnancy Specific Housing Rapid Re-housing Adams Street Family Center ✔✔✔ AccessPoint 4 Housing ✔✔✔ Salvation Army ✔ ✔ TNURS 414 Spring Quarter, 2014 students
Networking Source: quickmobile.com
Time’s Up! About you: –Name: Bob Carver –Department: Nursing –Contact Information: –Quick bio: RN since August 2008 –Started MN September, 2008 –Clinical Instructor since 2010 –Master of Nursing (hopefully) 2014