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Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups

Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- culturally specific care-- housing first-- open access-- PSH-- racial equity-- scholarly

The Truth About Housing First

Call to action around fighting for housing first, with accompanying myth-busting/reminders that serve as a more advanced and nuanced description of what Housing First is.

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Understanding housing first

Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…

Tags: housing first-- paywall-- training-- video

Housing First

Homeless Hub definition of housing first.

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What is Housing First?

Community solutions definition of Housing First.

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Data Visualization: The Evidence on Housing First

Visualization and links to external studies that provide evidence for and against housing first.

Tags: advocacy-- housing first-- literature review

Housing First and Access to Housing

CSH explanation of housing first and how to quickly move people into housing.

Tags: definition-- housing first-- implementation

How to House the Homeless

Collection of essays/articles about homelessness; range of topics including preventing homelessness, serving people experiencing homelessness, reforms and policy.

Tags: book-- cost-- housing first-- policy-- scholarly

Housing First and Single-Site Housing

In 2002, the United States embraced the Housing First approach, which led to the widespread adoption of this approach in cities across the nation. This resulted in programmatic variations of Housing First and calls for clarity about the Housing First…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- qualitative-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

A Randomized Trial Examining Housing First in Congregate and Scattered Site Formats

Objective: No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesized that CHF and SHF would be associated with a greater percentage of time stably housed as well as…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- randomized control trial-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

Fidelity to the Housing First Model and Variation in Health Service Use Within Permanent Supportive Housing

Objective: Permanent supportive housing (PSH) programs are being implemented throughout the United States. This study examined the relationship between fidelity to the Housing First model and health service use among clients in PSH programs in…

Tags: healthcare-- housing first-- model fidelity-- scholarly

Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction

This manual explains phf practices in detail, including staffing patterns, finances, and operations. By laying bare the program, we hope that administrators, advocates, policy makers, educators, and others may find it useful for implementing (or…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly

Pathways to Housing: Supported Housing for Street-Dwelling Homeless Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities

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This study examined the effectiveness of the Pathways to Housing supported housing program over a five-year period. Unlike most housing programs that offer services in a linear, step-by-step continuum, the Pathways program in New York City provides…

Tags: comparative study-- housing first-- New York City NY-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly-- supportive housing

The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users

The Housing First Model (HFM) is an approach to serving formerly homeless individuals with dually diagnosed mental health and substance use disorders regardless of their choice to use substances or engage in other risky behaviors. The model has been…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

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