In the context of family homelessness, children experience acute adversities related to loss of housing and residential mobility compounded with more chronic, poverty-related adversities and stressors. Among children in families experiencing homelessness, variability in experiences and outcomes warrant person-centered approaches to better delineate patterns of risk and resilience. Using latent profile analysis as a person-centered approach, we identified five distinct profiles of neurodevelopmental functioning within a sample of 231 children (ages 3–5 years old) staying in emergency homeless shelters with their families. Latent profiles were informed by indicators from parent-reported items for ten different domains of neurodevelopmental functioning. We examined whether demographic and ecological factors including age, ethnicity, adverse childhood experiences, parent mental health, and overreactive parenting would predict profile membership. Overall, half of the children in the sample demonstrated a profile of resilient functioning across developmental domains. Profiles of maladaptive functioning differed in areas of strength and challenge, with a small percentage of children showing poor functioning across all domains. Children whose parents had more mental health problems or overreactive parenting were significantly more likely to show profiles of poor functioning than to show resilient functioning. Implications for future research, practice, and policy are discussed.

在家庭无家可归的情况下，儿童会经历与失去住房和居住流动性相关的严重逆境，以及更长期的、与贫困相关的逆境和压力。在无家可归的家庭中的儿童中，经历和结果的可变性需要以人为本的方法来更好地描述风险和复原力的模式。使用潜在特征分析作为以人为中心的方法，我们在 231 名与家人一起住在紧急无家可归者收容所的儿童（3-5 岁）样本中确定了五种不同的神经发育功能特征。潜在的概况是通过家长报告的十个不同神经发育功能领域项目的指标来了解的。我们研究了人口和生态因素（包括年龄、种族、不良童年经历、父母心理健康和过度反应的养育方式）是否可以预测个人资料成员资格。总体而言，样本中的一半儿童表现出跨发展领域的弹性功能。适应不良功能的概况在优势和挑战领域有所不同，一小部分儿童在所有领域都表现出较差的功能。父母有更多心理健康问题或过度反应的养育方式的孩子更有可能表现出功能较差的特征，而不是表现出弹性功能的特征。讨论了对未来研究、实践和政策的影响。