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Author(s): Molly M. Brown, Leonard A. Jason, Daniel K. Malone, Debra Srebnik, Laurie Sylla
Publication Date: 2016
Housing First (HF) is an effective intervention for reducing homelessness and service utilization among vulnerable adults and is most often focused on individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. This study explored the effectiveness of a single‐site HF program for 2 groups of people with serious mental illness: those experiencing chronic street homelessness, and those whose homelessness was limited but had high psychiatric service needs, often...
Author(s): Daniel K. Malone, Susan E. Collins, Seema L. Clifasefi
Publication Date: 2015
Purpose
Chronic homelessness is a serious public health issue that places a strain on health-care and criminal justice systems. Typical housing models place requirements on chronically homeless individuals that are often experienced as insurmountable barriers to housing. Housing First (HF) models attempt to more effectively reach this population, and an emerging version of this is the single-site HF approach introduced by Seattle’s DESC. Sin...
Author(s): Susan E. Collins, Andrew J. Saxon, Mark H. Duncan, Brian F. Smart, Joseph O. Merrill, Daniel K. Malone, T. Ron Jackson, Seema L. Clifasefi, Jutta Joesch, Richard K. Ries
Publication Date: 2014
Background
Interventions requiring abstinence from alcohol are neither preferred by nor shown to be highly effective with many homeless individuals with alcohol dependence. It is therefore important to develop lower-threshold, patient-centered interventions for this multimorbid and high-utilizing population. Harm-reduction counseling requires neither abstinence nor use reduction and pairs a compassionate style with patient-driven goal-setting. Ex...
Author(s): Susan E. Collins, Daniel K. Malone, Seema L. Clifasefi
Publication Date: 2013
Objectives. We studied housing retention and its predictors in the single-site Housing First model.
Methods. Participants (n = 111) were chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems who lived in a single-site Housing First program and participated in a larger nonrandomized controlled trial (2005–2008) conducted in Seattle, Washington. At baseline, participants responded to self-report questionnaires assessing demographic, illness bur...
Author(s): Seema L. Clifasefi, Daniel K. Malone, Susan E. Collins
Publication Date: 2013
Description: Project-based Housing First (HF) programs provide immediate, permanent, low-barrier, nonabstinence-based supportive housing to chronically homeless people within a single housing project. Previous studies have shown project-based HF is associated with 6-month reductions in jail time, and that people with criminal histories are able to maintain their housing in supportive housing, such as project-based HF. This study aimed to extend t...
Author(s): Susan E. Collins, Daniel K. Malone, Mary E. Larimer
Publication Date: 2012
Collins et al. (2012) indicated that time spent in a project-based Housing First (HF) intervention was associated with improved two-year alcohol-use trajectories among chronically homeless individuals with alcohol problems. To explore potential correlates of these findings, we tested the relative prediction of alcohol-use outcomes by motivation to change (MTC) and substance abuse treatment attendance. Participants (N = 95) were chronically homele...
Author(s): Susan E. Collins, Daniel K. Malone, Seema L. Clifasefi, Joshua A. Ginzler, Michelle D. Garner, Bonnie. Burlingham, Heather S. Lonczak, Elizabeth A. Dana, Megan. Kirouac, Kenneth. Tanzer, William G. Hobson, G. Alan. Marlatt, Mar Larimer
Publication Date: 2012
Objectives. Two-year alcohol use trajectories were documented among residents in a project-based Housing First program. Project-based Housing First provides immediate, low-barrier, nonabstinence-based, permanent supportive housing to chronically homeless individuals within a single housing project. The study aim was to address concerns that nonabstinence-based housing may enable alcohol use. Methods. A 2-year, within-subjects analysis was cond...
Author(s): Daniel K. Malone
Publication Date: 2009
This article presents the research findings of Daniel K. Malone concerning the degree to which a criminal record is a predictor for successful housing. (HRC)
Abstract Objective: Homeless adults with serious mental illnesses and chronic substance abuse problems have few housing options, a problem compounded when a criminal background is present. This study compared the criminal backgrounds and other characteristics of homeless individuals who succ...
Author(s): Mary E. Larimer, Daniel K. Malone, Michelle D. Garner, David C. Atkins, Bonnie Burlingham, Heather S. Lonczak, Kenneth Tanzer, Joshua Ginzler, Seema L. Clifasefi, William G. Hobson, Alan Marlatt
Publication Date: 2009
"Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems." HRC is providing open access to this article.
ContextChronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems often have multiple medical and psychiatric problems and use costly health and criminal justice services at high rates. Objective To evaluate association of a "Housing First" intervention...