Temple University School of Social Work (SSW) is located in North Philadelphia at the corner of Broad St and Cecil B Moore Ave. Faculty at the school conduct research in a variety of practice and policy areas and teach approximately 800 BSW and MSW students.

SSW is dedicated to societal transformations to eliminate social, political, and economic injustices for poor and oppressed populations and to advance the quality of life for all through:
• Education emphasizing the discovery of knowledge, use of critical inquiry, and exertion of professional ethics to guide solution seeking and action taking to effect social change among professional social workers in front-line, supervisory, managerial, and leadership positions.
• Research and scholarship to advance applied knowledge and generate evidence based strategies to resolve problems occurring between people and their social environments at local, state, national, and global levels.
• Public service to aid the dissemination of knowledge and evidence based strategies.
• Responding to the needs of constituents through collaborations and partnerships with communities, agencies, and organizations.

SSW has several centers/institutes as well. These include the Center for Social Policy and Community Development (CSPCD), Center for Intervention and Practice Research (CIPR), and Institute on Protective Services (IPS).

Dr. Karin Eyrich Garg, an Assistant Professor at SSW, is interested in research and evaluation involving persons experiencing homelessness. She has conducted work with Project H.O.M.E., Covenant House Pennsylvania, and the city’s Office of Supportive Housing. Some of Dr. Eyrich-Garg’s recent publications are listed below. You may contact her to receive copies of them. Her email address is kgarg@temple.edu, and her phone number is (215) 204-1217.

• Eyrich-Garg, K.M. (2010). Mobile phone technology: A new paradigm for the prevention, treatment, and research of the non-sheltered “street” homeless? Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 87(3), 365-380.
• North, C.S., Eyrich-Garg, K.M., Pollio, D.E., & Thirthalli, J. (2010). A prospective study of substance use and housing stability in a homeless population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 45(11), 1055-1062.
• Eyrich-Garg, K.M. (2010). Meeting them where they are: An exploratory study of staff and resident perceptions of homeless women’s needs. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 19(3/4), 47-70.
• Eyrich-Garg, K.M. (2011). Sheltered in cyberspace? Computer use among the ‘street’ homeless. Computers in Human Behavior, 27(1), 296-303.
• Pollio, D.E., Eyrich-Garg, K.M., & North, C.S. (2011). The homeless (pp. 1487-1503). In B. Johnson’s (Ed.) Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice: Springer.