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Record W4412172603 · doi:10.1080/10530789.2025.2528260

The impact of a mobile social intervention and mediation team on the management of conflicts involving persons experiencing homelessness in public spaces

2025· article· en· W4412172603 on OpenAlexaff
Jessika Houde, Étienne Blais, Alice Barrault

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Social Distress and the Homeless · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMediationIntervention (counseling)PsychologyBusinessPolitical sciencePsychiatry

Abstract

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Aims This study assessed the effect of a mobile social intervention and mediation team on the management of persons experiencing homelessness. This team was implemented to offer an alternative to police responses to managing conflicts related to cohabitation or the prohibited use of public places.Method Data was extracted from administrative records on interventions conducted by both the police and the mobile team in order to create a control (n = 136) and treatment group (n = 81). The observations in both groups were matched based on their propensity score.Results Persons were less likely to be transported to hospital when the mobile team managed the intervention instead of the police. Interventions by the mobile team were also associated with increased odds of being referred to community resources.Conclusion Civilian teams composed of psychosocial workers represent a promising measure to manage crisis or conflicts involving persons in a situation of homelessness in public spaces.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.271
Threshold uncertainty score0.918

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.357 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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