Social Service Database
To Inform Clients and Agencies of What is Available in Jersey City
Presented by Savannah Gonzalez
Background
Research Team: Megan Halma; Frank Holder; Maryam Javadi; Joe Long; Esther Lee; Tina Laoudis; Gloria Padilla; Mailen Palacios; Michail Pintchiouk; Sherry Ramdial; Richard Roman; Glenny Tanchez; Yahaira Villafane
Partner Group: York Street
Contact: Suzanne Byrne
Project Evolution
- Professor Trillo’s Sociology 151 course on Homelessness
- What they learned:
- No complete list social services in Jersey City
- Several “fractured’ lists existed
- Most were out of date
- Sociology 151 students dedicated four weeks and their final projects assignments to:
- Tracking
- Assembling
- Calling
Results from Fall 2005
- Database of 97 organizations that serve the homeless in Jersey City complete with:
- Names
- Addresses
- Phone Numbers
- Partial Descriptions of Services Offered
Phase II: Spring 2006
- Sociology 450: Research Methods
- 5 Students Incorporated this Project into their Methods Learning Experience
- Developed a More In-Depth Questionnaire and learned more about:
- The types of services offered
- Other sociological characteristics such as organization size, connectedness to other agencies and vulnerability to losing resources
- Currently Administering Questionnaire
- Currently Inputting New Information into SPSS for Analysis
- Sociology 448: Social Science Statistics:
- Currently Inputting Data into SPSS
- Cleaning Data
- Running Descriptive Statistics to Learn about the Characteristics of Jersey City Social Service Organizations
Next Steps
- Complete Interviews
- Complete Data Entry
- Complete Analysis
- Distribute Database to Each Organization
- Post Database on SPC/Sociology Website as Part of a Broader Dissemination of our Simon Activities and of General Social Services in Jersey City
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