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Grand Rounds--Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies | ||
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Can Group Homes Help to Reduce Chronic Homelessness among Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses? | ||
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| Event Kind: | |
Lecture Series | ||
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| Sponsor: | |
Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies | ||
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Elinson (MSPH) Library 600 West 168th Street, Fourth Floor southwest corner of 168 Street and Broadway |
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Fourth Floor Conference Room | ||
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| Speaker(s) Name: | |
Russell K. Schutt, Ph.D. | ||
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| Speaker(s) Affiliation: | |
University of Massachusetts, Boston and Harvard Medical School | ||
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http://cchps.columbia.edu | ||
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| Event Description: | |
Independent apartments are the preferred placement of most homeless persons with serious mental illness and of many housing advocates. Should there be any longer a role for group homes in the mental health service system? This presentation will help to inform understanding of this issue with findings from the Boston McKinney Project and several related studies. The Boston McKinney Project (Stephen M. Goldfinger, MD, PI) was a longitudinal, randomized experimental evaluation of group homes and independent apartments provided to homeless persons with serious mental illness (funded by NIMH and HUD). Special attention will be given to consumer housing preferences, clinician housing recommendations, and the consequences of the social environment of group or independent living for housing retention, housing satisfaction, and cognitive functioning. Presenter: Russell K. Schutt, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lecturer on Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Cancer Disparities Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University. He is the author of the best-selling research methods text, Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research (now in its 5th edition), co-author of several derivative versions of that text, co-author of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice and co-editor of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and author of Organization in a Changing Environment: The Unionization of Welfare Employees. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His current foci are on social factors that shape the impact of housing, employment and services for persons diagnosed as severely mentally ill, on the service preferences of homeless persons and service personnel, and on case management and other services for persons with cancer. | ||
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| Invitation Limited To: | |
Open to the Public | ||
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Yes, Contact Shoshana Vasheetz, 212-305-6609 | ||
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| Event Date(s) & Time(s): |
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
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