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Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program
Rand Corporation
Year: 2017
Housing for Health (HFH), a division within the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), was established to provide supportive housing to DHS patients with complex medical and behavioral health issues who were experiencing homelessness. HFH goals are to … Continue reading
Availability of comprehensive services in permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles
Health and Social Care in the Community
Year: 2017
Studies have often described a specific model or models of permanent supportive housing (PSH), yet few studies have systematically examined what services are typically offered to PSH tenants in any given service system and how those services are offered. Using … Continue reading
Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Women & Homelessness
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Year: 2017
This report is intended to inform policymakers, service providers, and other stakeholders about the findings and recommendations of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) Ad Hoc Committee on Women & Homelessness, created to confront the issue of rising homelessness … Continue reading
Prioritizing Which Homeless People Get Housing Using Predictive Algorithms
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2017
We present a predictive model for identifying homeless persons likely to have high future costs for public services. It was developed by linking administrative records from 2007 through 2012 for seven Santa Clara County agencies and identifying 38 demographic, clinical … Continue reading
The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
Feasibility of a computer‑assisted social network motivational interviewing intervention for substance use and HIV risk behaviors for housing first residents
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Year: 2016
Social networks play positive and negative roles in the lives of homeless people influencing their alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) and HIV risk behaviors. This study is the first of its kind that has developed, with input from Housing First staff … Continue reading
Integrated Primary Care in Assertive Community Treatment
Psychiatric Services in Advance
Year: 2016
Assertive community treatment (ACT) has the potential to serve as a medical home for adults with serious mental illness, a population that experiences some of the most significant health disparities in the United States. Using site visit methodology, the authors … Continue reading
Pilot Test of an Adapted, Evidence-Based HIV Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for Homeless Women
Society for Research Prevention
Year: 2016
Women experiencing homelessness are at heightened risk for HIV, yet risk reduction interventions specifically designed for this population are lacking. This study reports on a pilot efficacy trial of a brief evidence-based intervention, Sister To Sister (STS), that we specifically … Continue reading
Risk behavior and access to HIV/AIDS prevention services in a community sample of homeless persons entering permanent supportive housing
AIDS Care
Year: 2016
Homeless persons suffer disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, and moving into permanent supportive housing (PSH) can provide a stable base from which to access needed prevention services. However, little is known about HIV risk or prevention behavior during this … Continue reading
Roadmap to a Unified Measure of Housing Insecurity
CESR-SCHAEFFER
Year: 2016
We argue for the development of a unified measure of housing insecurity, which includes the creation of a consistent definition and an instrument that allows researchers to accurately measure the problem. Our survey of the literature uncovers that there are … Continue reading