Processes and experiences of women after leaving a shelter: a scoping review

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After a shelter stay, women frequently face continued housing and economic instability. This scoping review, which is a companion paper to our scoping review on outcomes for women post-shelter (Jacobsen et al. [2024]. Outcomes for women after leaving a shelter: A scoping review of the quantitative evidence. Women’s Studies International Forum, 105, 102921.), explores the experiences of women post-shelter stay, and factors that affect this transition. We followed the Levac et al. ([2010]. Scoping studies: advancing the methodology. Implementation Science, 5(1), 1–9.) framework for conducting scoping reviews. After screening 6,895 articles, 37 met the inclusion criteria. Four salient themes emerged relating to the experiences of women post-shelter: connection and community, finding a place to call home, creating a new life, and caring for self. Our findings add to the existing literature to underscore the paramount importance of ontological security and engagement in meaningful activities for women transitioning from shelter to housing. This review highlights the necessity of including the voices of women to understand what safety, security, and community integration mean to them. Including the voices of women with lived experience to guide research, practice and policy is imperative to find solutions that are socially just, accessible, trauma-informed, and gender-transformative.

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