Introduction

While not designed to rigorously examine children’s issues or outcomes, the Sound Families evaluation uncovered compelling findings relating to children in transitional housing which prompted further exploration. While families and children have clearly made many gains while in transitional housing, evaluation findings from interviews with program directors, case managers and families have also identified existing gaps in services to children and the impacts these unmet needs have on families. The reality remains that services to children are often the last to be funded—and the most difficult to find funding for—and that service and housing providers and the systems impacting these families could do much to improve their work with children.