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No place to go: displaced women and their children.  E.K. ADAMS.  Honors College and Dept. of Sociology and Anthro., U. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816.  Transitional living programs provide residence to persons under the premise that while they reside in such a facility, they will continuously be working in tandem with their case-manager and other service providers to once more become self-sufficient when leaving the program. I examine the actual functioning of one transitional living program in the Central Florida area – given the pseudonym the Women's Transitional Living Facility (WTLF), which serves only women and their children – investigating the positive and negative effects of the rules in place in this institution, and how they are applied by the staff of the WTLF. Research consisted of anthropological ethnographic fieldwork during 26 weeks in 2003, including participant-observation and semi-structured interviews, with people who serve, have served, or are residing within the Women’s Transitional Living.