ANALYSIS TERMINOLOGICAL APPARATUS SERVICES HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES

Delivering Terminological Services

Terminologies or controlled vocabularies are important as they provide a framework within which communities can share knowledge. We describe three applications using a terminology represented in a Description Logic and delivered via a Terminology Server and suggest that such a service oriented architecture is essential to the adoption of terminologies within the component based architectures of...

Housing plus services: supporting vulnerable families in permanent housing.

The importance of integrating services with housing to help low-income families achieve stability is gaining recognition. The variations in types of existing housing and service initiatives have produced a complex language with multiple meanings and overlapping definitions. The National Low Income Housing Coalition proposes the umbrella term housing plus services to refer to these programs. Fol...

APPROVED: Permanent Housing Support Services Standards.

Effective July 1, 2016, The Joint Commission Behavioral Health Care Accreditation Program will include permanent housing support services standards related to a “housing first” program model. The new standards, which are designed to assist individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or other behavioral health care issues, will appear in the “Care, Treatment, and Services” ...

Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities, the Republic of Sri Lanka

Communal housing settings enhance substance abuse recovery.

Oxford Houses are democratic, mutual help-oriented recovery homes for individuals with substance abuse histories. There are more than 1200 of these houses in the United States, and each home is operated independently by its residents, without help from professional staff. In a recent experiment, 150 individuals in Illinois were randomly assigned to either an Oxford House or usual-care condition...