Homelessness in a Resource-dependent Rural Community: A Community-based Approach
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Abstract
Research surrounding the experiences of homeless individuals living in rural resource-dependent towns is lacking in the literature. In order to understand the needs and experiences of the homeless adults, it is useful to consider their needs from their own perspectives as well as those who provide services to them. Guided by the principles of participatory research methodology with marginalized individuals, this exploratory study seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of homelessness in a resource-dependent town by using a community based visual research method. Fifteen homeless adults and eight stakeholders were included as participants in this study. Findings of the study show that the use of a community based visual methods approach provided the homeless participants a platform to be heard. The homeless participants shared their needs and a variety of challenges that are unique to a boomtown. The results of the study also reveal that a community-based methodology is useful in communication between stakeholders and homeless participants. Keywords: homelessness, rural Canada, resource-based towns, services, community-based visual research method ------------------------------------------------------ L'Itinerance dans une Communaute Rurale Dependante des Ressources: une Approche Axee sur la Communaute Il y a peu de recherche sur les experiences des sans-abris vivant dans des villes rurales dependantes des ressources. Afin de comprendre les besoins et les experiences des adultes sans-abris, il est utile de considerer leurs besoins de leur propres perspectives ainsi que celles qui leur fournissent les services. En partant des principes de la methodologie de la recherche participative avec des individus marginalises, cette etude exploratoire cherche a acquerir une comprehension approfondie de l'itinerance dans les villes dependantes de ressources en utilisant une methode de recherche visuelle basee sur la communaute. Quinze adultes sans abris et huit acteurs furent inclus dans cette etude. Les resultats de l'etude montrent que l'utilisation d'une approche par les methodes visuelles basees sur la communaute ont fourni aux participants sans-abris une plateforme pour etre ecoutes. Les participants sans-abris ont partage leurs besoins et une variete de defis qui sont uniques a une ville en plein essor. Les resultats de l'etude ont aussi revele qu'un nouveau modele communautaire est utile en communication entre les acteurs et les participants sans-abris.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".