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Author(s): Michelle Patterson, Diane Schmidt, Denise Zabkiewicz
Organization: Mental Health Commission of Canada; Simon Fraser University
Publication Date: 2010
This report examines how a consortium of diverse stakeholders, including community service providers and researchers, convened in Vancouver to respond to the MHCC's Request for Applications for a research demonstration project on mental health and homelessness. It describes the challenges the local team faced and the sources of strength they drew on as they developed their response and proposal.
This report also includes a Key Messages document...
Author(s): Michelle Patterson, Akm Moniruzzaman, Anita Palepu, Denise Zabkiewicz, Charles J. Frankish, Michael Krausz, Julian M. Somers
Publication Date: 2013
This study used an experimental design to examine longitudinal changes in subjective quality of life (QoL) among homeless adults with mental illness after assignment to different types of supported housing or to treatment as usual (TAU, no housing or supports through the study). We hypothesized that subjective QoL would improve over time among participants assigned to supported housing as compared to TAU, regardless of the type of supported housi...