Developing a peer-based healthy lifestyle program for people with serious mental illness in supportive housing
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Supportive housing for homeless people with severe mental illness.
Research suggests that as many as 110,000 single adults with severe mental illness (SMI) are homeless on any given day in the United States. The combination of mental illness and homelessness make this population especially hard to reach through either housing or mental health programs alone. Supportive housing programs, which provide independent housing along with health and social services, h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Translational Behavioral Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1869-6716,1613-9860
DOI: 10.1007/s13142-016-0457-x