Spotlight on Janian Medical Care

• By: Rachel A. Fernbach, Esq. New York State Psychiatric Association
• January 22nd, 2024
• community, homelessness, integrated care, outreach, reverse educational model, supportive housing, telepsychiatry, transitional housing, Winter 2024 Issue
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Janian Medical Care is a group practice of mental health clinicians and the largest provider of psychiatric care to homeless and formerly homeless people in New York City. Janian Medical Care partners with housing providers across the city and operates the Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the...

Safe at Last: Safe Options Support (SOS) Offers Options to Support the Homeless

• By: Barry Granek, LMHC Gerald Ramos, MPA, MSW Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) Melissa Queliz, LMHC Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• January 22nd, 2024
• affordable housing, deinstitutionalization, homelessness, housing, mental health, mental illness, outreach, substance use, support services, transitional housing, Winter 2024 Issue
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Supporting the homeless population in NYC is a complex issue rooted in factors like the lack of affordable housing, mental illness, substance use, unemployment, and poor health conditions. Following the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, New York City (NYC) has grappled with a significant...

Critical Questions for the Development of Housing that Supports Recovery

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Analyst and Mental Health Advocate
• January 22nd, 2024
• abstinence, deinstitutionalization, harm reduction, housing, mental illness, permanent housing, recovery, substance use disorder, transitional housing, Winter 2024 Issue
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There is no doubt that housing supports recovery – i.e., having a satisfying life as a person with a serious mental illness depends first and foremost on having a decent place to live – but many people need help to have decent housing. Amazingly, that was not recognized in the initial phase...