I focused my article on homeless shelters to see the different things they provide for clients, but more specifically I focused on women in shelters and the services offered to them. This was an article in ProQuest titled, “Homeless Shelters in Alabama: A Study on women’s health services.” The author of this article is Veta Robinson.

Robinson, Veta. “Homeless Shelters in Alabama: A Study of Women’s Health Services.” Order No. AAI3544008, . http://ezproxy.redlands.edu/docview/1520338981?accountid=14729.

The article was focused on women because studies have shown that women and families are the highest growing groups in the homeless population. There have been no studies done though to focus specifically on services offered toward women. They wanted to see if women knew of the services that were provided for them and/or if they were utilizing them. In order to obtain this information they would use surveys/questionaries to see what the women are aware of and if they are utilizing any of the programs. Also used surveys to ask the directors/staff if they provide any specific programs toward women. To analyze this data they will use qualitative data to find patterns in the women’s responses. It was interesting to read that there wasn’t a consistent pattern in what the women were and were not aware of. They either knew about none of the services that they could be using or they were aware of them and were utilizing them or preferred not to utilize them. I thought this was interesting because this showed that only a certain amount of the homeless population knew of varying services, meaning that as the homeless population is growing they need to increase peoples knowledge of what they can do to help themselves and who is there to help them.