The authors propose a system of case management where skilled mental health professionals are responsible for ensuring that homeless clients with mental illnesses receive a comprehensive range of services, support, and treatment. They stress the importance of first offering tangible benefits like a hotel room or bus pass so that homeless clients who often mistrust mental health professionals will see case managers as providing help, not treatment. Once a positive relationship has been established, treatment issues can be approached (Authors).
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