Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing (Homeless Narratives, Housing First and Pretreatment)

On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?The listener will:Experience moving real life stories that demystify homeless outreach and its central objectives and challenges.Learn about effective strategies of outreach and engagement with under-served populations.Understand and be able to utilize the stages of common language construction in your own practice.Learn about pretreatment principles and their applications with persons experiencing untreated major mental illness, addiction, and medical issues.Discover new interventions via outreach counseling, advocacy and case management with people experiencing long-term or chronic homelessness.Understand how to better integrate policy, programs (e.g. Housing First), and supervision with homeless outreach initiatives.About the AuthorJay S. Levy, LICSW has spent the last 20 years working with individuals who experience homelessness. He has developed new programs and provided clinical staff supervision. Jay is one of the architects to the Regional Engagement and Assessment for Chronically Homeless Housing program (REACH). This was adopted by the Western Massachusetts Regional Network as an innovative approach toward reducing chronic homelessness.Read more