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Permanent Supportive Housing With Housing First to Reduce Homelessness and Promote Health Among Homeless Populations With Disability: A Community Guide Systematic Review

Objectives: A standard approach to treating homeless persons with a disability is called Treatment First, requiring clients be “housing ready”—that is, in psychiatric treatment and substance-free—before and while receiving permanent housing. A more…

Tags: disability-- health-- HIV/AIDS-- housing first-- mental illness-- open access-- PSH-- review-- scholarly-- substance use disorder

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

Housing First Checklist: Assessing Projects and Systems for a Housing First Orientation

Checklist of characteristics a program should have to be considered "housing first", intended as a tool to be used by those administering programs.

Tags: housing first-- implementation

Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing

Explains the key characteristics of housing first, as applied to PSH models.

Tags: housing first-- PSH

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

Screening for Housing First

The screening process can serve several purposes. The process allows for initial engagement to be made with homeless individuals in the community. Once contact has been made, homeless service providers can begin to determine if individuals meet…

Tags: coordinated entry-- housing first-- systems design

THIS is Housing First for Youth: Operations Manual

Part 2 of this guide takes the form of an operations manual, providing practical guidance for how to implement HF4Y. It touches upon a number of areas, including case management, supervision, community planning, and designing youth-focused service…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- youth

THIS is Housing First for Youth: Program Model Guide

This new version of THIS is Housing First has been broken into two sections. Part 1 provides an overview of the research, principles, and philosophy underpinning the HF4Y model. It concludes with a series of case examples of successful local…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- youth

Can Housing First Work for Youth?

Housing First has emerged as an effective and humane approach to addressing homelessness. In spite of the strength of the evidence, questions remain regarding the applicability of Housing First to sub-populations, including youth. The proposed…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- scholarly-- youth

Housing First, But What Comes Second? A Qualitative Study Of Resident, Staff And Management Perspectives On Single-Site Housing First Program Enhancement

Single-site Housing First (HF) is associated with reduced publicly funded service utilization and costs and alcohol-related harm for chronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems. Many residents,however, continue to experience…

Tags: housing first-- qualitative-- scholarly-- Seattle WA-- single-site-- substance use disorder

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

Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis

Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals’ on those individuals’ consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. Methods. Two…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- randomized control trial-- scholarly-- supportive housing

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

Canadian Housing First Toolkit

This toolkit is based on the experience of the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi project that used the Pathways to Housing model of Housing First for homeless people with mental illness. While the toolkit has a mental health focus because it is based on the…

Tags: Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- toolkit

Strategies to Balance Fidelity to Housing First Principles with Local Realities: Lessons from a Large Urban Centre

The importance of program implementation in achieving desired outcomes is well- documented, but there remains a need for concrete guidance on how to achieve fidelity to evidence- based models within dynamic local contexts. Housing First (HF), an…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- program evaluation-- 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

Pathways Housing First Institute

Website for the Pathways to Housing non-profit, who originally developed the Housing First model.

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The Ambiguities, Limits and Risks of Housing First from a European Perspective

There is strong evidence that the Pathways Housing First model can move homeless people with sustained experiences of living rough, with problematic drug and alcohol use, and with severe mental illness straight into ordinary housing, and successfully…

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

Housing First: Q&A

NLIHC factsheet about housing first, includes a brief definition and answers to common questions.

Tags: advocacy-- definition-- housing first

The Evidence is Clear: Housing First Works

Fact sheet, provides easily digestible evidence of the benefits of housing first over treatment first or abstinence programs, across a variety of indicators.

Tags: advocacy-- housing first

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