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Online Program

4301.0
Permanent Supportive Housing: Can We Treat Housing as a Healthcare Intervention?

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Describe a sample of participants in a supportive housing program that used data driven strategies to target high medical care users. Describe the use of technology among homeless adults about to move into permanent supportive housing. Demonstrate the effects of a permanent supportive housing program for homeless families with multiple barriers on service access and outcomes. Discuss changes in medical and emergency medical service use by formerly homeless individuals after placement in permanent supportive housing.
Moderator:
Nisha Beharie, DrPH

2:30pm
Baseline survey results from an evaluation of a national supportive housing program designed to target high medical need homeless individuals   
Margaret Giorgio, PhD MPH, Beth C. Weitzman, PhD, Carolyn Berry, PhD, Tod Mijanovich, PhD and Margaret Paul, MS
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
2:50pm
Technology use, service provider contact, and social relationships among homeless adults moving into PSH   
Harmony Rhoades, PhD, Hailey Winetrobe, MPH, CHES, Benjamin Henwood, PhD, LCSW, Eric Rice, PhD, Taylor Harris, MA and Suzanne Wenzel, PhD
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
3:10pm
Promise of Permanent Supportive Housing: Findings from the Washington Youth and Families Fund High Needs Family Program Evaluation   
Debra Rog, PhD, Kathryn Henderson, PhD and Andrew Greer, PhD
3:30pm
Medical and emergency medical service use by people experiencing homelessness before and after placement in supportive housing   
James Petrovich, PhD, MSSW, Emily Spence-Almaguer, PhD, MSW, Subhash Aryal, PhD, MS and Kwynn Gonzalez-Pons
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
  

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Organized by: Caucus on Homelessness
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Black Caucus of Health Workers, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: Caucus on Homelessness