| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Emergency shelter | Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered women, victims of domestic violence in general, or victims of sexual abuse. A more minor difference is that people staying in emergency shelters are more likely to stay all day, except for work, school, or errands, while homeless shelters usually expect people to stay elsewhere during the day, returning only to sleep, or sometimes, to eat, if the shelter also provides meals. (references) | ||
| Youth Emergency Shelter | The Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough is located in the city of Peterborough Ontario Canada. It is a homeless shelter for males and females between the ages of 16 and 24. After over 10 years of planning, the Youth Emergency Shelter (Y.E.S.) officially opened its doors on December 20th 2002. The official opening of the shelter occurred in February of 2003 and was attended by both local and federal politicians including the Honourable Jane Stewart. While Y.E.S. is a shelter for homeless youth, it is also an umbrella organization for other programs concerning this group of at risk youth. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Emergency shelter | Business | A shelter that operates on a first-come, first-served basis, and people must leave in the morning and have no guaranteed beds for the next night, or where people know they have a bed for a specified period of time even if they leave the building every day. Shelters also include facilities that provide temporary shelter during extremely cold weather (such as churches) and facilities that provide emergency shelter for runaway or neglected children or abused women. See hotels, motels, and other facilities; regularly scheduled mobile food van; shelter for children who are runaways, neglected, or without housing; soup kitchen; and transitional shelter. (references) | |
| Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program | Planning | A Federal grant program designed to help improve the quality of existing emergency shelters for the homeless, to make available additional shelters, to meet the costs of operating shelters, to provide essential social services to homeless individuals, and to help pre-vent homelessness. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: EMERGENCY SHELTER | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Youth Emergency Shelter | 6 | Calgary women's emergency shelter | 5 | |
| Calgary women's emergency shelter | 5 | Emergency shelter | 4 | |
| Emergency shelter | 4 | Youth Emergency Shelter | 6 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
