Diversity and homelessness: minorities and psychiatric survivors.

Homelessness among persons with serious mental illness in an enhanced community-based mental health system.

OBJECTIVE Homelessness and patterns of service use were examined among seriously mentally ill persons in an area with a well-funded community-based mental health system. METHODS The sample consisted of 438 individuals referred between 1990 and 1992 to an extended acute care psychiatric hospital after a stay in a general hospital. Those experiencing an episode of homelessness, defined as an ad...

Deinstitutionalised patients, homelessness and imprisonment: systematic review.

BACKGROUND Reports linking the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric care with homelessness and imprisonment have been published widely. AIMS To identify cohort studies that followed up or traced back long-term psychiatric hospital residents who had been discharged as a consequence of deinstitutionalisation. METHOD A broad search strategy was used and 9435 titles and abstracts were screened...

ASCB Minorities Affairs Committee goals: "strengthening the chain of success".

1. To increase diversity among the ASCB members 2. To bring issues related to minorities in science to the attention of ASCB members 3. To assist in the professional development of minority scientists and in the education of minority science students 4. To provide opportunities for faculty members at minorityserving institutions (MSIs) not only to advance their research and teaching effectivene...

Deinstitutionalisation does not increase imprisonment or homelessness.

Closing long-stay psychiatric beds remains contentious. The review by Winkler et al in this issue examines 23 studies of deinstitutionalisation for the outcomes of people discharged from psychiatric hospitals after an admission of 1 year or longer. The majority of these studies identified no cases of homelessness, incarceration or suicide after discharge from hospital.

Domestic violence, housing instability, and homelessness: A review of housing policies and program practices for meeting the needs of survivors