Helping Vulnerable Populations During COVID-19: Challenges of Mitigation in Congregate Residential Settings

• By: Jeanie Tse, MD Cynthia Summers, DrPH, MPH Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• May 19th, 2020
• behavioral health, community housing, COVID-19, data, mitigation, summer 2020 issue, telehealth
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In New York City, tens of thousands of people with serious mental illness or developmental disabilities live in congregate housing or homeless shelters. For behavioral health agencies like the Institute for Community Living (ICL), the COVID-19 pandemic has presented an urgent challenge: With over...