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This session offers research perspectives on the experience of vulnerable cohorts that receive services in our public mental health systems: veterans, homeless shelter users, and incarcerated populations. The experience of these cohorts with suicide is explained in this compassionate overview of populations facing intense challenged.

Session Objectives: Explain the relationship between discontinuing behavioral health treatment and homelessness or jail time. Describe various factors that are predictive of self-reported suicide within a sample of adults diagnosed with severe mental illness. Discuss how mental health outcomes differ among adults with and without military service histories.