Help What is Homeless Pages? Homeless Pages is a library of over 1,400 information resources about homelessness and related issues. Homeless Pages is a wide-ranging introduction to the field of homelessness, and has information about reports, books, directories, leaflets, training courses, legislation, computer software and websites - as well as full details of the organisations that provide this information. Homeless Pages includes the most important recent resources available in the field, most of which have been published in the past five years. Use Homeless Pages as an online library - browse through the data, taking advantage of the unique coding structure to follow links between the resources. When you find a resource you are interested in obtaining, contact the publisher or distributor to order the publication or to book a place on the training course. Homeless Pages does not include directory style details of hostels, advice services or other agencies providing services for homeless people. If you are homeless or have a housing problem, you can ring Shelter's Free Housing Advice Line on 0808 800 4444 (8am-12midnight, 7 days a week). This is a national freephone helpline for homeless people and those with housing problems and can give details of emergency accommodation, and put you in touch with your nearest housing advice centre. They are often very busy, particularly during the day, but do keep trying. Each resource (website, directory, leaflet etc) in Homeless Pages is classified in four ways, according to: Subject We have divided up the large subject area of homelessness into 18 main subject areas. Each resource is classified into one or more of these wide subject areas. Keyword To help you find the resources you need, there are also around 90 keywords defined in the system. Each resource is linked to one or more keywords. Using this classification you can, for example, find all the resources available concerned with dual diagnosis. Organisation Each resource is published or provided by an organisation. Homeless Pages has information about over 500 different organisations - publishers, voluntary organisations, local authorities, training providers etc. From their information pages you can find out how to contact them, view their website and see what resources they publish or provide. Resource Each resource in Homeless Pages is also classified by what sort of resource it is. There are 15 main types of resources: reports and books, directories, leaflets, websites, etc. Homeless Pages is published by Resource Information Service. How to use Homeless Pages Firstly decide which of the four classifications to use. If you want to see all the available information about a subject area use Subjects, or if you want a more specific search, then use Keywords. To see information about organisations and what they provide, use Organisations. To see information about a particular type of resource, use Resources. Then select one of the four tabs across the top of the screen. This will take you to the relevant index page. From the index page, you can select a particular subject, keyword, organisation or resource from the list shown on screen. Find and select the one you are interested in. If you want to look at another index page, click the relevant tab at the top of the screen. You will now see the introduction page for the subject, keyword, organisation or resource. This gives you introductory text, definitions and key contact information. If you want to go back to the index page you initially clicked, just click the highlighted tab. On the right-hand side of the screen is a box showing how many resources match your selection, along with options of how you wish to sort the selection. Select one of the sort-order options. You will now see the list of resources that match your selection, sorted in your selected order. Selecting another sort option from the right hand box will re-sort the page. Now you can click on the title of any particular resource you are interested in to view the page giving details about that resource. If you want to purchase the resource, click on the publisher or distributor name to find contact details. The page also shows you all the classification information for that resource. If you want to see related resources, select one of the links listed to view similar items. You also have the option of excluding resources that are out of print from your search. Click the button in the box on the right-hand side of the screen labelled 'out of print' to exclude them, and click it once more to include them again. Out of print resources are shown in italics in the list. What's new To find out the latest resources listed on Homeless Pages, select the What's New option from the left hand side of the screen. This produces a listing of the titles of the publications and events that have recently been added to Homeless Pages. Also listed are any new organisations that have been added to Homeless Pages, plus any new subjects, keywords or types of resources. Area search You can find resources on Homeless Pages about homelessness in a particular area, region or country within the UK by using the area search. Select the area search option from the left hand side of the screen. Then click on a country or region code to find resources which have a country wide or regional focus. Any resources that are about homelessness in more local areas are then listed under the country or region's related Local Authority areas. Text searches Another way to search the database is to select the text search option from the left hand side of the screen. This brings up a search panel that allows you to search the entire site for specific text. You have three options to enable you to broaden or narrow your search. You can search for all the words, any of the words or the exact phrase you have entered in the text box. FAQs Select the FAQs option from the left hand side of the screen to find answers to some frequently asked questions about homelessness information and the Homeless Pages website. Feedback Please take a few minutes to give us your feedback about Homeless Pages on our new Feedback page. Ordering resources listed in Homeless Pages If you are interested in ordering a resource, contact the publisher or distributor directly to order a publication or to book a place on a training course. Click on the organisation name for their contact details. Homeless Pages includes the prices of publications. Please note that these are subject to change and it is advisable to confirm the current cost of a publication you wish to order. When known, Homeless Pages includes details of any additional costs for postage and packing (p&p). Some publishers charge p&p according to the total value of publications ordered at any one time, and if this is the case, Homeless Pages gives the cost of p&p quoted for one copy of a particular publication. If ordering more than one copy or a nu   © Copyright 2003, Resource Information Service