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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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Author(s): Martha R. Burt
Publication Date: 2006
In 2004, the Hilton Foundation awarded the Corporation for Supportive Housing a five-year grant of $8 million to promote changes in city, county, and state systems that would reduce homelessness in Los Angeles County, especially among people with serious mental illness. CSH uses these resources to bring people together, facilitate planning and implementation, provide expert advice, and help span the boundaries of different systems that have long...
Publication Date: 2007
This guide is intended to help Level I and II trauma centers implement Screening and Brief Interventions (SBI) as part of routine trauma cases. It reviews the elements that should be considered as part of implementing a successful program and will be a reference for SBI in other settings as well. (SAMHSA)
Publication Date: 2006
Links to state and nation Education Watch Summary Reports for 2003-2006
Publication Date: 2007
Children Now’s 2006-07 California Report Card provides a concise and complete assessment of how children are doing in our state, along with policy recommendations for improving their well-being and, in doing so, improving California for all of us. We hope you find this information insightful and act on it. (Children NOW)
Publication Date: 2006
The 2006 Children’s ScoreCard provides both an opportunity to highlight Los Angeles County’s progress in improving the well-being of children, and an opportunity to reflect on the rich 15-year history of the Children’s Planning Council. We have learned that our attention to data and collaborative planning—at both the systems and community level—has been integral to changing conditions for children and families. We have worked to develop partnersh...
Author(s): Cindy Zeldin, Mark Rukavina
Publication Date: 2007
Health care costs are rising sharply, placing stress on employers, individuals, and families. As employers look to rein in benefit costs, they are increasingly turning towards health insurance options that feature greater employee cost sharing through higher deductibles, co-payments, and other forms of out-of-pocket expenses. Others are dropping coverage entirely. Financially stretched low- and middle-income families, however, can scarcely afford...
Author(s): Mary Cunningham, Meghan Henry
Organization: National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)
Publication Date: 2007
During the past five years, community approaches to homelessness have changed and thousands of people are working toward the shared goal of ending homelessness. Measuring their success or failure will depend on collecting and analyzing outcome data, monitoring changes in homelessness populations, and understanding which interventions lead to different outcomes. Yet, up until now, we had no recent data on how many people are homeless in the United...
Author(s): Martha Burt, Laudan Aron
Publication Date: 2006
This evaluation was designed to help us understand the scope of homelessness in Santa Monica, the positions and interests of the various stakeholders, and what is working and what is not. We used various evaluation methods to help gain this understanding, including interviews with more than 100 stakeholders; write-in responses from another 150 people; and analysis of budget data, performance statistics, and data on homeless people receiving servi...
Author(s): Jennifer R. Wolch, Michael Dear, Gary L. Blasi, Dan Flemming, Paul Tepper, Paul Koegel
Publication Date: 2007
Great cities are places of opportunity. People arrive at, or remain in, big cities in order to make better lives for themselves. And typically they typically succeed, working in manufacturing, commerce, or government, to gain a comfortable life for themselves and their children. Others, perhaps less fortunate from the start, occasionally stumble on the path to achieving their dreams. In dire need, they often find succor and shelter – however mode...
Publication Date: 2007
The July 22, 2007, twentieth anniversary of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act calls for reflection on the persistence of mass homelessness in the United States, for consideration of what is needed to overcome homelessness, and for a new spirit of commitment and determination to eradicate this social evil. The undersigned national organizations call for reauthorization of McKinney Act programs by the 110th Congress, and in the forwa...
Publication Date: 2006
Chairman CRAIG. Good morning. We are doing something very unusual in the history of the Senate. We will be starting the hearing early today because we have been thrown a curve, and that is we are in a marathon voting session with the budget resolution. At about 10:40, Senator Akaka and I are going to have to leave for a series of votes, so we are going to have to abbreviate the whole process today. We still want to get all of you in, those who ha...
Author(s): Neil Buhrich, Maree Teesson
Publication Date: 1996
Since 1988 a 24-hour psychiatric out reach service has been in operation in the inner city of Sydney to provide services to residents of refuges for the homeless. A total of 506 homeless persons with schizophrenia were referred to the outreach service between April 1988 and mid-1992, of whom 91 failed to attend. Hospitalization data were collected for the four years before and the four years after each individual's referral to the service. After...
Publication Date: 2002
With the implementation of the Shelter Reconfiguration Plan complete, Bureau of <br/>Housing and Community Development (BHCD) recognized that a responsive public policy needs to address changing community circumstances and that the existing system could use some modifications. Further, Directors of organizations in the Homeless Single Adult System realized a need for increased collaboration and enhanced working relationships among their di...
Publication Date: 2006
Nearly one-third of homeless people suffer from a mental illness, according to SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services. Research has shown that the majority of homeless people with a mental illness lack access to supportive services, such as housing programs and counseling centers. Yet the National Mental Health Association has found that supported housing is an effective option for communities working to meet the needs of people with mental h...
Author(s): Michael Leavitt
Publication Date: 2007
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has developed the Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness to outline a set of goals and strategies that will guide the Department’s activities related to homelessness over the next several years. This strategic action plan serves as the next iteration of the strategic action plan released in 2003, Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action, which outlined the Department’s strategy for contri...
Author(s): Mary Lennon, William McAllister, Li Kuang, Daniel Herman
Publication Date: 2005
OBJECTIVES: We analyzed whether a method for identifying latent trajectories--latent class growth analysis (LCGA)--was useful for understanding outcomes for individuals subject to an intervention. METHODS: We used LCGA to reanalyze data from a published study of mentally ill homeless men in a critical time intervention (CTI) program. In that study, 96 men leaving a shelter's on-site psychiatric program were randomly assigned to experimental a...
Author(s): Sandra Resnick, Moe Armstrong, Mary Sperrazza, Laurie Harkness, Robert Rosenheck
Publication Date: 2004
Recently, there has been increased interest in consumer-provided mental health services. Two models have been proposed: One emphasizing full independence from professional services, and one in which consumers work within the mental health system. In this paper we describe Vet-to-Vet, a consumer-professional partnership model in which consumer services are embedded in a mental health system. We describe the advantages of this approach and barriers...
Author(s): David Buck, Donna Rochon, Harriett Davidson, Sheryl McCurdy
Consumer advisory boards (CABs) are a way of involving patients in their health care. To engage the homeless in the administration of a health care organization for the homeless, a service agency formed such a board comprising homeless and formerly homeless individuals. The purpose was to integrate experiences of homelessness into programmatic design and research efforts of the organization, and to promote participatory research among the homeles...
Author(s): Anne Morris, Joan Bloom, Susan King
Publication Date: 2006
The impact of organizational and individual factors on outcomes of care were assessed for 424 adult consumers with chronic mental illness who were receiving services from one of 14 Community Mental Health Organizations (CMHOs) in Colorado over a 30-month period, as part of a larger statewide evaluation of the impact of Medicaid capitation on mental health services. Data on organizational culture and climate were aggregated from surveys of staff a...