"Introduction: Intensive Case Management (ICM) is a community‐based package of care aiming to provide long‐term care for severely mentally ill people who do not require immediate admission. Intensive Case Management evolved from two original…
Building Your Program is intended to help mental health authorities, agency administrators, and ACT leaders think through and develop the structure of ACT programs. Although you will work closely together to build ACT programs, for ease, we created…
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) funded the USC Keck School of Medicine, a Tribal Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Project partner, to lead a unique opportunity to conduct a statewide needs assessment among urban and rural…
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…
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…
Purpose:Interventions for tobacco dependence are most effective when combined with smoke-free policies, yet such policies are rare in permanent supportive housing (PSH) for formerly homeless adults. We aimed to provide in-depth analysis of attitudes…
