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Housing and Employment: Key Components of Behavioral Health Reform
Housing is one of the most important recovery supports for many people who struggle with substance use disorder. There is also a very strong link between recovery from substance use disorder and economic self-sufficiency, including employment. These two support services very often go hand in hand....
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Housing and Employment, The Foundation for Recovery: Keeping the Focus in a Changing Environment
Across the country, conversations are taking place about integrated, community- based employment for individuals with disabilities. There are also conversations about housing individuals with disabilities in the community, in the least restrictive environment. Traditionally, issues of housing and...
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Housing and Employment: Cornerstones of Self-Directed Recovery
I recently heard from a New York State supported housing consumer who said, “Starting over with no place to live, no money, food or furniture can be terribly overwhelming. It was then that my counselor introduced me to Saint Joseph’s Medical Center. I found out their Residential Services...
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HUD’s Role in Supporting the Goals of Olmstead
In a landmark ruling on June 22, 1999, the United States Supreme Court held in Olmstead v. L.C. that the unjustified segregation of persons with disabilities violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires public entities to administer services, programs, and...
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Housing for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Continuing Critical Need
For adults with psychiatric disabilities of all ages, stable housing is a critical need—perhaps, in fact, their most critical need. Sadly, appropriate housing is not adequately available at any age. For older adults with long-term psychiatric disabilities, finding decent, affordable, and stable...
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BHN Summer 2014 Issue
"The Vital Role of Housing and Employment in the Recovery Process” Articles in This...
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Ending Veteran Homelessness on Long Island
In 2011 President Obama, Department of Defense Secretary Eric Shinseki and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a five-year plan to end veteran homelessness in the United States. The announcement was backed up by record funds to help achieve this goal. VASH vouchers (Veterans Administration...
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From A Home to A Career
Rock-solid bottom line: I could never keep a job without mental health supportive housing. I can’t even imagine maintaining a viable employment search from a friend’s couch, a city shelter, or a preferred bench at Penn Station. It almost came down to shelters or train stations ten years ago....
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Suicide in the Military: Army NIH-Funded Study Points to Risk and Protective Factors
The largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among U.S. military personnel today released its first findings related to suicide attempts and deaths in a series of three JAMA Psychiatry articles. Findings from The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers...
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Seven Tips for Teaching More Effective Job Skills
After fifteen years of modestly fulfilling our mission of teaching Computer Job Skills and securing employment for over three-thousand persons diagnosed with mental and physical disabilities, I regret how little we knew. We had the passion and heart for the work, but we lacked the expertise to be...
