The Integrated Role of Housing and Employment in Recovery

• By: Jose Cotto, LCSW Dr. Tasrina Kahn Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• January 22nd, 2024
• behavioral health services, employment, housing, integrated services, mental health, recovery, social determinants of health, vocational opportunities, well-being, whole health, Winter 2024 Issue
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When you think of recovery, you often think of what we would consider our social determinants of health: financial stability, housing and surrounding environment, health care access, education, and social connections. When a person is doing well in all these domains, they generally thrive and...

Investing in Whole Person Care in Supported Housing: Improving Health, Enhancing Recovery

• By: David Kamnitzer, LCSW-R Marcia Titus-Prescott, RN-BC Elisa Chow, PhD Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• April 1st, 2020
• housing, mental health, recovery, substance use disorders, whole health
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At ICL, we offer a range of housing opportunities for people with serious mental illness – people who have been homeless, living in a shelter or on the streets, with long histories of mental health and substance use issues; some with HIV/AIDS; many from prison, state hospitals and adult homes....

Integrating Health and Behavioral Health: Consider All the Dimensions

• By: David Woodlock Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• October 1st, 2019
• behavioral health, care coordination, chronic disease management, community partnerships, integrated care, primary care, social determinants of health, whole health
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A discussion of integrated care should actually start by redefining the term itself. Integrated care is commonly considered the weaving together of physical and behavioral health, but experience has shown that this definition limits the discussion to two dimensions. What dimension is missing? What...