Poverty & Homelessness – Resource Kit
The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) team, together with the Poverty & Homelessness Spoke advisors within A Bolder Way Forward, have curated a collection of recommended resources. This includes UWLP research and materials as well as valuable contributions from statewide and national community partners and organizations. To get involved in positive change, take action by exploring what you can do as individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Key Resources
- Conversation Guide: Poverty & Homelessness in Utah
- Data Visualizations: Goal Metrics Dashboard and Utahns' Perceptions Dashboard
- Podcast: A Bolder Way Forward Conversations: Poverty & Homelessness
- Video: A Bolder Way Forward: Poverty & Homelessness
Research Reports
- Homelessness Among Utah Women: A 2025 Update (Research Summary)
- Homelessness Among Utah Women - 2022
- Poverty Among Utah Women: A 2022 Update (Research Summary)
- Poverty & Homelessness: Research Summary - 2024
- Poverty Among Utah Women - 2016
- Single Mothers in Utah - 2023
- Women’s Equality in Utah: Why Utah Is Ranked as the Worst State, and What Can Be Done - 2021
- Women’s Safety & Security 2025: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes - 2026
- Women’s Safety & Security: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitude - 2025
Podcasts & Videos
- Podcast: Homelessness Among Utah Women: A 2025 Update
- Podcast: Homelessness Among Utah Women
- Podcast: New Research: Poverty & Homelessness and Home & Family
- Podcast: Poverty Among Utah Women
- Podcast: Poverty Among Utah Women: A 2022 Update
- Podcast: Understanding Poverty & Homelessness in Utah
- Podcast: Utah Women and Safety & Security: Poverty, Homelessness, and Domestic Violence
- Video: Poverty & Homelessness in Utah: What Can I Do About it?
Articles
- Homelessness Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2023)
- Homelessness Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2026)
- Poverty Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2022)
- Single Mothers in Utah (LinkedIn, 2024)
- Women Are 80% More Likely Than Men to Face Poverty After Age 65 (Salt Lake Business Journal, 2025)
Community Research
- Being Educated Works: A Look at Educational Attainment and Unemployment (Utah Department of Workforce Services, 2023)
- Priority Issues #9: Poverty [search word: “female”] (Utah Foundation, Oct. 2012)
- Status of Women in the States: Utah (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
- The Best and Worst States Overall for Women in 2015 [search word: “Utah”] (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Nov. 2015)
- The Justice Gap: Addressing the Unmet Legal Needs of Lower-Income Utahns [search words: "women," "woman," and "gender"] (Utah Foundation, Apr. 2020)
- The Well-Being of Women in Utah: An Overview (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2014)
- Utah’s Fifth Annual Report on Intergenerational Poverty, Welfare Dependency and the Use of Public Assistance (Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission, 2016)
- Utah's Eighth Annual Report (Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission, 2019)
- Working Families Benchmarking Project 2021: Utah vs Arizona (Voices for Utah Children, May 2021)
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