Supportive Housing Workers are Burnt-Out, Overworked, and in Dire Need of Support

• By: Pascale Leone, MPP Rebecca Zangen, MSc The Supportive Housing Network of NY
• January 22nd, 2024
• behavioral health, mental health challenges, recruitment and retention, staffing crisis, supportive housing, systemic racism, training programs, trauma-informed care, wages and benefits, Winter 2024 Issue, workforce shortage
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Essential to the health and recovery of our formerly unhoused neighbors with the most complex needs are critical workforce investments for those who serve and support them. The future of supportive housing, the most effective tool available to combat chronic homelessness, is threatened by a severe...

Post-COVID Strategies to Achieve the Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health System We’ve Needed All Along

• By: Heidi Arthur, LMSW Catherine Guerrero, MPA Health Management Associates Lawrence Fowler The Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center Mark Sasvary, PhD, LCSW Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS)
• July 2nd, 2021
• mental health, racial disparities, Summer 2021 Issue, systemic racism, trauma, trauma-informed care
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For decades, systemic racism has disproportionately routed Black and Brown children who have unmet behavioral health needs to congregate care and residential programs, and adults with these needs, to jails and prisons (Bronson & Berzofsky, 2017; National Conference of State Legislatures, 2021)....