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Judith Samuels, PhD and HF Program Residential Stability Working Group. Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY 10962, (845) 398-6579, samuels@nki.rfmh.org
This presentation will concentrate on one of the major outcomes of the SAMHSA Homeless Families Initiative – residential stability. We will describe the residential histories of families participating in the eight-site study as well as the relationship between residential stability and participation in the treatment group intervention. It is hypothesized the families enrolled in the treatment interventions at sites will have better residential outcomes than families in the comparison group.
Utilizing a residential follow-back instrument, we have collected data from the homeless mothers at each research site detailing their residential history for 6 months prior to entry into the study, 3, 9 and 15 months later. For this session, we will examine the pre-intervention residential histories and the early outcomes of our interventions. Analysis will be presented based on data for the 6 months prior to program entry and the 3 months follow up point. We will begin by providing descriptive statistics of the housing history for the families including time homeless, time spent in mental health and substance abuse treatment settings, time in housing, and time in other locations. We will also present comparisons of these outcomes between the intervention and comparison groups. Because of the wide variation in interventions across the sites, we will present an analysis of residential stability outcomes within each site or cluster of interventions.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.