Technical Assistance (TA)
TA Publications
The following publications are available online and are arranged
by topic.
Chronic Homelessness
Burt, M.R. (2001) What will it take to end homelessness? (brief)
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/end_homelessness.pdf
Fannie Mae Foundation. (2002) New strategies and collaborations
target homelessness. Housing Facts & Findings,
4(5). http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hff/v4i5-strategies.shtml
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2003) Ending
Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action. Washington, DC: U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/homelessness/strategies03/cover.pdf
Mainstream Resources/Funding
Corporation for Supportive Housing (2002) Financing the
Support in Supportive Housing: Challenges and Opportunities
in the Medicaid
Program. New York, NY: Corporation for Supportive Housing. http://documents.csh.org/documents/pubs/DevelopingSupport-full.pdf
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. (2003) Holes in the
Safety Net: Mainstream Systems and Homelessness. San Mateo, CA: Charles
and Helen Schwab Foundation.
http://www.schwabfoundation.org/files/homeless/mainstream.pdf
Final Report for the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (2003).
www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/reports.htm
National Governor's Association. (2002) Medicaid and Other
State Healthcare Issues: The Current Situation. Supplement
to the May 2002 Fiscal Survey of States. Washington, DC: National
Governor's
Association. http://www.nga.org/cda/files/FSMEDICAIDMAY02.pdf
Post, P. (2001) Casualties of Complexity: Why Homeless People
Are Not Enrolled in Medicaid. Nashville, TN: National Health Care
for the Homeless Council.
http://www.nhchc.org/Publications/CasualtiesofComplexity.pdf
Reynnells, M.L. (2003) Federal Funding Sources for Rural
Areas: Fiscal Year 2003. Beltsville, MD: Rural Information
Center. http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/funding/federalfund/ff.html
Smith, V.K. (2002) Making Medicaid Better: Options to allow
States to continue to participate and to bring the program up
to date
in today's health care marketplace. Washington, DC: National
Governor's Association.
http://www.nga.org/cda/files/MAKINGMEDICAIDBETTER.pdf
Technical Assistance Collaborative. (2001) How To Be a "Player" in
the Continuum of Care: Tools for the Mental Health Community. Boston, MA: Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
http://www.pathprogram.samhsa.gov/pdf/continuum_of_care.pdf
Technical Assistance Collaborative. (1999) Seizing the Moment:
Using HUD’s Consolidated Plan to Identify Affordable Housing
Opportunities for Homeless People with Serious Mental Illnesses. Delmar, NY:
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness.
http://www.nrchmi.com/pdfs/publications/Seizing_the_Moment.pdf
The Subcommittee
Report on Housing (2003).
www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/subcommittee/Sub_Chairs.htm
Systems Change
International Downtown Business Association. (2000) Addressing
Homelessness: Successful Downtown Partnerships. Washington, DC:
International Downtown Business Association. http://ida-downtown.org/km/DesktopModules/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=30
National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning.
(2000) The Change Agent’s Toolbox. Alexandria, VA: National Technical
Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning. http://www.nasmhpd.org/ntac/toolbox/agent8.html
Wilkins, C., Greiff, D. & Proscio, T. (2003). Laying a new
foundation: Changing the systems that create and sustain supportive
housing. Corporation for Supportive Housing, Oakland, CA. http://www.csh.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=42
Evidence-Based & Promising Practices
Housing & supportive services
Culhane,
D., Metraux, S., and Hadley, T. (2002) Public service reductions
associated with placement of homeless persons with
severe mental illness in supportive housing. Housing
Policy Debate,
13(1): 107-163.
http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_1301_culhane.pdf
Lipton, F.R., Siegel, C., Hanningan, A., Samuels, J., and Baker,
S., (2000) Tenure in supportive housing for homeless persons with
severe mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 51(4): 479-486.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/51/4/479
Tsemberis, S., and Eisenberg, R.F. (2000) Pathways to housing:
Supported housing for street-dwelling homeless individuals with
psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatric Services, 51(4): 487-493.
http://www.shanj.org/Resources/pathways.pdf
Case management/multi-disciplinary treatment teams
Morse, G. (1999). A review of case management for people who
are homeless: Implications for practice, policy, and research.
In Fosburg, L.B., Dennis, D.L. (eds.) Practical Lessons:
The 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Delmar, NY:
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness.
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/progsys/homeless/symposium/7-Casemgmt.htm
Rosenheck, R.A. and Dennis, D., (2001) Time-limited assertive
community treatment for homeless persons with severe mental illness.
Archives of General Psychiatry 58(11): 1073-1080.
http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/58/11/1073
Health care
McMurray-Avilla, M., Gelberg, L., and Breakey, W.R., (1999)
Balancing act: Clinical practices that respond to the needs of
homeless people,
In Fosburg, L., and Dennis, D. (eds.). Practical Lessons:
The 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Washington,
DC: HUD and HHS. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/progsys/homeless/symposium/8-Clinical.htm
Substance abuse
Zerger, S. (2002) Substance Abuse Treatment: What Works
for Homeless People?: A Review of the Literature. Nashville, TN: National Health
Care for the Homeless Council.
http://www.nhchc.org/Publications/SubstanceAbuseTreatmentLitReview.pdf
Income support
Rosenheck, R., Frisman, L., Kasprow, W. (1999) Improving access
to disability benefits among homeless persons with mental illness:
An agency-specific approach to services integration. American
Journal of Public Health 89(4): 524-528.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/51/12/1549#BDY
Prevention/discharge planning
Interagency Council on the Homeless. (1997). Exemplary Practices
in Discharge Planning: Working Conference on Discharge Planning.
Report and Recommendations. Washington, DC: Interagency Council
on the Homeless.
http://www.nhchc.org/discharge/Documents/IVB_ExemplaryPractices.doc
Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. (2002). Essential
Tools for Discharge Planning. Nashville, TN: National Health Care
for the Homeless Council. (selected parts) http://www.nhchc.org/discharge/
Shinn, M., Baumohl, J. (1999) Rethinking the prevention of homelessness.
In Fosburg, L.B., Dennis, D.L. (eds.), Practical Lessons. Washington,
DC: HHS & HUD.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/progsys/homeless/symposium/13-Preven.HTM
Susser, E., Valencia, E., Conover, S., Felix, A., Tsai, W., Wyatt,
R.J. (1997) Preventing recurrent homelessness among mentally ill
men: A “critical time” intervention after discharge from a shelter.
American Journal of Public Health 87(2): 256-262.
Psychiatric rehabilitation
Shern, D.L., Tsemberis, S., Anthony, W., Lovell, A.M., Richmond,
L., Felton, C.J. Winarski, J., Cohen, M. (2000) Serving street-dwelling
individuals with psychiatric disabilities: Outcomes of a psychiatric
rehabilitation clinical trial. American Journal of Public
Health,
90(12): 1873-1878.
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/catalog/articles/2000/anthony.2000b.pdf
Employment
Cook, J., Pickett-Schenk, S., Grey, D., Banghart, M., Rosenheck,
R.A., Randolph, F. (2001) Vocational outcomes among formerly homeless
persons with severe mental illness in the ACCESS program. Psychiatric
Services 52(8): 1075-1080.
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/52/8/1075#top
Henderson-Frakes, J. (2004) Serving the homeless through the
One-Stop system: A case study. Oakland, CA. Social Policy Research
Associates.
Consumer involvement
Glasser, N. (1999). Giving voice to homeless people in policy,
practice, and research. In Fosburg, L.B., Dennis, D.L. (eds.)
Practical Lessons: The 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness
Research. Delmar, NY: National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental
Illness.
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/progsys/homeless/symposium/Toc.htm
Rural Issues
Cooper, E., O’Hara, A., Versluys, M.C. (2002) Opening Doors:
Rural Housing Challenges. Boston, MA: The Technical Assistance Collaborative.
http://www.c-c-d.org/od-Sept02.htm
HCH Clinicians Network. (2001) Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness
and Health Care. Healing Hands 5(5)
http://www.nhchc.org/Network/HealingHands/2001/
October2001HealingHands.pdf
Housing Assistance Council. (2002) Continua of Care Best
Practices: Comprehensive Homeless Planning in Rural America. Washington, DC:
Housing Assistance Council.
http://www.ruralhome.org/pubs/hsganalysis/continua.pdf
Post, P. (2002) Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness and Health
Care. Nashville, TN: National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
http://www.nhchc.org/Publications/RuralHomeless.pdf
Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2002) Homeless
Management Information Systems: Implementation Guide. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/hmis/implementation/index.cfm
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2003) Homeless
Management Information Systems (HMIS) Consumer Guide: A Review
of Available HMIS Solutions. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/hmis/
assistance/consumerguide/index.cfm
Additional resources on a variety of topics
related to homelessness can be
accessed on the National Resource Center on Homelessness
and Mental Illness Web site at www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov
Supplemental Bibliography
Beyond Shelter. The "Housing First" Program for Homeless
Families: Methodology Manual.
http://www.beyondshelter.org/aaa_the_institute/publications.shtml
Burt, M.R., Aron, L.Y., Douglas, T., Valente, J., Lee, E., Iwen,
B. Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve. http://www.huduser.org/publications/homeless/homeless_tech.html
Center for Community Change Housing Trust Fund Project. Housing
Trust Fund Progress Report 2002: Local Responses to America's Housing
Needs. www.communitychange.org
McMurray-Avila, M. Organizing Health Services for Homeless People:
A Practical Guide. www.nhchc.org
McMurray-Avila, M. Homeless Veterans and Health Care: A Resource
Guide for Providers, with Appendices.
www.nhchc.org/Publications/HomelessVetsHealthCare.pdf
National Association of State Budget Officers NASBO Analysis: Medicaid
to Stress State Budgets Severely into 2003. www.nasbo.org/Publications/PDFs/medicaid2003.pdf
National Governors Association. The Fiscal Survey of States. www.nga.org/cda/files/NOV2002FISCALSURVEY.pdf
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness.In
from the Cold: A Tool Kit for Creating Safe Havens for Homeless
People on the Street. www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/havens/index.cfm
O'Hara, A., Miller, E. Priced Out in 2000: The Crisis Continues.
http://www.tacinc.org/cms/admin/cms/_uploads/docs/PO2002.pdf
Pitcoff, W., Crowley, S., Dolbeare, C., Schaffer, K. Rental Housing
for America's Poor Families in 2002: Farther Out of Reach Than
Ever. www.nlihc.org/oor2002
Smith, V., Gifford, K., Ramesh, R., Wachino, V. Medicaid Spending
Growth: A 50-State Update for Fiscal Year 2003. www.kff.org/content/2003/20030113/
The United States Conference of Mayors. A Status Report on Hunger
and Homelessness in America's Cities 2002. www.usmayors.org/uscm/hungersurvey/2002/onlinereport/
HungerAndHomelessReport2002.pdf
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Evaluation of
Continuums of Care for Homeless People. www.huduser.org/publications/pdf/continuums_of_care.pdf
United States Department of Labor. Employment and Training for
America's Homeless: Best Practices Guide.
http://wtw.doleta.gov/documents/homelessman/homeless1.wpd
United States
General Accounting Office. Homelessness: Barriers to Using
Mainstream Programs. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00184.pdf
United States General Accounting Office. Homelessness: Coordination
and Evaluation of Programs are Essential. www.gao.gov
Additional Resources
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness.
National Organizations Concerned with Mental Health, Housing
and Homelessness
(March 2003) http://www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/lists/default.asp
National Coalition for the Homeless. Directory of Local Homeless
Service Organizations.
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/state/coalitiondirectory03.pdf
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