Supported housing programs for persons with serious mental illness in rural northern communities: A mixed method evaluation

Supported housing programs for persons with serious mental illness in rural northern communities: A mixed method evaluation

BACKGROUND During the past two decades, consumers, providers and policy makers have recognized the role of supported housing intervention for persons diagnosed with serious mental illness (SMI) to be able to live independently in the community. Much of supported housing research to date, however, has been conducted in large urban centers rather than northern and rural communities. Northern cond...

Title of Grant : Housing Approaches for Persons with Serious Mental Illness

Travel Risks for Those With Serious Mental Illness

Introduction: It has been known for a long time in the French-speaking, but not the English-speaking literature that travel can exacerbate pre-existing psychosis. The purpose of this article was to review the literature on this subject and present recommendations for prevention. Methods: For this narrative review of the literature on travel risks in indivi...

Cost-effectiveness of supported housing for homeless persons with mental illness.

BACKGROUND Supported housing, integrating clinical and housing services, is a widely advocated intervention for homeless people with mental illness. In 1992, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established the HUD-VA Supported Housing (HUD-VASH) program. METHODS Homeless veterans with psychiatric and/or substance abuse disord...

Weight loss in persons with serious mental illness

Weight loss in persons with serious mental illness" (2013).