Families Experiencing Homelessness: Their Needs in the Built Environment
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This course has been discontinued and is no longer open to new registrations. If you previously registered you still have access to the content for review.
Learn how you as a designer can influence the built environment to better support and assist families affected by the trauma of homelessness.
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This course, supported by the ASID Foundation Irene Winifred Eno Grant, will help you understand the perspective of families experiencing homelessness, offering insight into their needs and concerns when entering shelters or other emergency housing situations. You’ll then learn how you as a designer can influence the built environment in those settings to better support and assist families affected by the trauma of homelessness.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the current state of homelessness in the United States.
- Describe the mindset of parents and children experiencing homelessness and their priorities and concerns.
- Identify fundamental qualities that designers can employ in the built environment to effectively assist families experiencing homelessness.
- Describe specific environmental design strategies to accommodate families in trauma who are living in shelters or permanent residences.
Continuing Education Approval
- 1 IDCEC CEU | C-106122 (Your CEU will be reported to IDCEC on your behalf.)
Access period: One year from registration date.
Jill Pable, Ph.D., ASID, FIDEC
Professor, Interior Architecture & Design
Florida State University
Jill Pable seeks to elevate awareness of the potential contribution that thoughtful, research-informed design can bring to people experiencing trauma, and especially those who are unhoused. She addresses this through her research and publications that examine the effectiveness of shelter and supportive housing interior environments for the past 16 years, and also through the activities and publications of Design Resources for Homelessness, a non-profit organization that provides research-based, curated information to interior designers, architects, researchers, and others at no charge, translating evidence-based research into applicable design strategies for use in project programming. Through its research reports, summaries, and case studies of projects coast to coast, DRH enables readers to explore trauma-informed design principles, understanding interior planning approaches that really matter to those using these spaces. Spotlight reports discuss specific person types such as victims of domestic violence and families, providing designers the means to empathize with their unique situations.
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