Spotlight: Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS)

Authors: Pitcher, Chris S. ; Hayes, Michelle; Robinson, Cara; Freeman, Kathleen

Publication Date: 2010

Collecting and storing information about consumers can be a daunting and cumbersome task. Contrary to programs that have unique data tracking systems, programs funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), utilize Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS). This spotlight provides background about HMIS and highlights the work of PATH Providers in Idaho, New Jersey, and Hamilton County, Ohio. (Authors)

Tags: HMIS; PATH; data collection

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Technical Assistance Resource Page: Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS)

Authors: Freeman, Kathleen; Pitcher, Chris S. ; Robinson, Cara; Hayes, Michelle

Publication Date: 2010

SAMHSA is encouraging PATH programs to use their local Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) to collect and report PATH data. Many PATH providers are required to use HMIS for other programs within their agencies and some of them enter information about their PATH consumers in HMIS. When PATH providers use HMIS, it reduces reporting burden by eliminating dual record keeping and integrates PATH into the local service continuum. This helps local communities, HUD, and HHS understand how PATH help...

Tags: HMIS; data collection; PATH

When Punishing Innocent Conduct Violates the Eighth Amendment: Applying the Robinson Doctrine to Homelessness and Other Contextual "Crimes"

Authors: Weisberg, B.

Journal Name: The Journal of criminal law criminology

Publication Date: 2005

This Comment will discuss the state of the forty-year-old constitutional principle (the so-called "Robinson doctrine") that criminally sanctioning a person's membership in a status violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (1) A corollary to the doctrine is that the state is free, at least under the Eighth Amendment, to punish conduct, so long as it is not punishing mere status. (2) Today, the Robinson doctrine is in some ways a dead ... (abstract from http://...

Tags: robinson doctrine; law; criminalization; crime; criminalization of homelessness

''I Think Home Is More Than a Building'': Young Home(Less) People on the Cusp of Home, Self and Something Else

Authors: Robinson, Catherine

Journal Name: Urban Policy and Research

Publication Date: 2002

This paper explores research undertaken with young home(less) people in Sydney in which I specifically pursue ideas of home and belonging in the inner city. In a context in which young home(less) people are seen to 'lack' both identity and place, the responses of young people indicate the fragility and importance of relations of space and self. (abstract from http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713701481)

Tags: youth; relationality; belonging; space; population

Meeting the Challenge: Ending Treatment Disparities for Women of Color

Authors: Coridan, Cathi; O'Connell, Cara

Source: Alexandria, VA: National Mental Health Association, 2002.

Organization: National Mental Health Association (NMHA)

Publication Date: 2002

Research clearly shows that women are more likely than men to experience co-occurring mental health and substance abuse/addiction disorders (NIDA, 1998), thus women have an increased need for comprehensive treatment models. Because the majority of persons who suffer from addictive disorders, and hence those who seek treatment for substance abuse/addiction and co-occurring mental disorders are male and white, women of minority status are often unaware of, or unable to access, appropriate services. When...

Tags: mental health; women; substance use; co-occurring disorders; cultural and linguistic competence; cultural and linguistic issues; racial and economic disparities; treatment

Homeless in Canada: A Funder's Primer in Understanding the Tragedy on Canada's Streets

Authors: Trypuc, Bri; Robinson, Jeffrey

Organization: Charity Intelligence Canada

Publication Date: 2009

The purpose of this report is to help people across Canada have a better understanding of our homeless situation based on evidence rather than myths, and bring to the public’s attention programs that work in helping the homeless. With better information, we hope Canadians can make informed and intelligent giving decisions that will create results for those in need.

Tags: homeless canadians. ; homeless research; housing statistics

Your place not mine

Authors: Robinson, David; Coward, Sarah

Organization: Crisis

Publication Date: 2003

There are as many as 380,000 hidden homeless people in Great Britain, the majority of whom are sleeping on friends and families floors. Although their existence is widely acknowledged, their plight is rarely tackled. Part of the reason for this is the lack of knowledge surrounding the nature of their experiences and the extent of their vulnerability. This report represents the third instalment in a series of reports to be published by Crisis over the coming year intended to uncover the neglected and d...

Tags: homelessness

Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem

Authors: Hartman, Chester; Robinson, David

Journal Name: Housing Policy Debate

Publication Date: 2003

Although evictions are a major housing problem that disproportionally affects lower-income and minority tenants, no systematic data about evictions are collected on a local and national level. This article presents the scattered available data on the magnitude and impact of the problem, along with existing model efforts to reduce its incidence and impact. Creating a national database on eviction- how many, where, who, and why, and what happens to evictees- would be an important first step in focusing...

Tags: housing; employment

A Multilevel Decomposition Approach To Estimate the Role of Program Location and Neighborhood Disadvantage in Racial Disparities in Alcohol Treatment Completion

Authors: Jacobson, Jerry; Robinson, Paul; Bluthenthal, Ricky N.

Journal Name: Social Science and Medicine

Publication Date: 2007

Large racial disparities in completion rates from substance abuse treatment programs in urban settings remain largely unexplained, although evidence is accumulating that neighborhood conditions may influence individual substance abuse patterns and consequences. Understanding racial disparities in alcohol treatment completion, in particular, is crucial to resolving health disparities because racial/ethnic minorities bear a disproportionate burden of alcohol-related health consequences. Patient records...

Tags: racial and economic disparities; substance use; treatment; cultural and linguistic issues

Consumer Drop-in Centers: Operations, Services and Consumer Involvement

Authors: Mowbray, Carol; Robinson, Elizabeth; Holter, Mark

Journal Name: Health & Social Work

Publication Date: 2002

Interest in involvement of consumers in mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation services delivery has expanded in recent years, encompassing self-help approaches,consumers employed as providers in formal agencies, and consumers operating their own services. This study reports results from in-depth phone surveys conducted with 32 consumer drop-in centers in Michigan. Results indicate that centers operate in many ways like other human services businesses, albeit with much smaller budgets. Fund...

Tags: mental health; psycho-social rehabilitation

Homeless 2 Home

Authors: Fitzgerald, Robert; Harrison, Connie; Preston, Inge; Robinson, Malia; Janes, Julia

Publication Date: 2009

Inside this community action guide are the issues, ideas and innovations heard at the homeless2home exchange AND the strategies and ACTIONS.

Tags: community action; homelessness; strategies; actions; Housing First

State profiles of mental health and substance abuse services in Medicaid

Authors: Robinson, Gail; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admnistration

Publication Date: 2005

Profiles each state's coverage of behavioral health in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Provides key findings and a snapshot of program policies on the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services in these programs. (Authors)

Tags: state; mental illness; mental health; health; abuse; services; service; medicaid

Predictors of Decompensation Among Consumers of an Intensive Case Management Program

Authors: Ryan, Carey S. ; Sherman, Paul S. ; Robinson, Debbie R.

Journal Name: Behavior Therapy

Publication Date: 1999

Recent work suggests that some people who have severe and persistent mental illnesses can be transferred to less intensive services without suffering ill effects. However, the factors that affect the success of such transitions remain unknown. This longitudinal study examines consumer characteristics and types of intensive case management services that predict deceompensation. We examined the trajectories of 86 individuals in an intensive case management program after they attained the highest level o...

Tags: mental health; case management

Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty

Authors: MacDonell, Susan; Robinson, Jamie; Mikadze, Vladimir; McDonough, Laura; Meisner, Alan

Organization: United Way Toronto

Publication Date: 2011

Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty presents new data on the growing concentration of poverty in the City of Toronto and the role that high-rise housing is playing in this trend. The report tracks the continued growth in the spatial concentration of poverty in Toronto neighbourhoods, and in high-rise buildings within neighbourhoods. It then examines the quality of life that high-rise buildings are providing to tenants today. Its primary focus is on privately owned building stock in Toronto’s in...

Tags: quality of life; apartments; inner suburbs; low-income families; neighborhoods

12-step participation among dually-diagnosed individuals: A review of individual and contextual factors

Authors: Aase, Darrin M.; Jason, Leonard A. ; Robinson, W. LaVome

Journal Name: Clinical Psychology Review

Publication Date: 2008

The frequent co-occurrence of substance abuse disorders along with psychiatric disorders creates a number of complexities and needs in terms of long-term treatment for individuals. 12-step groups might provide unique mechanisms by which dually-diagnosed individuals can maintain their abstinence and improve their psychological functioning. This paper reviews the literature on outpatient community 12-step participation among dually-diagnosed individuals, and also focuses on individual factors that may i...

Tags: dual diagnosis; 12-steps; ex-offenders; ethnicity

Community Characteristics and Violence Against Homeless Women in Los Angeles County

Authors: Heslin KC; Robinson PL; Baker RS; Gelberg L.

Journal Name: Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

Publication Date: 2007

Research on violence against homeless women has focused mainly on individual rather than community-level risk factors. Using an ecological conceptual framework, we estimated the independent association of community characteristics with sexual and physical assault in a probability sample of 974 homeless women. Participants were interviewed at 66 assistance programs in Los Angeles County, California in 1997. Individual responses were linked to community-level data from land use files and the U.S. Census...

Tags: violence; Homeless Women; community; domestic violence; single women

Residential Mobility of Individuals With Diagnosed Schizophrenia - a Comparison of Single and Multiple Movers

Authors: Lix, Lisa; DeVerteuil, Geoffrey; Hinds, Aynslie; Robinson, J.; Walker, John; Roos, Leslie

Journal Name: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

Publication Date: 2007

Background: Several studies have compared the residential mobility of individuals with schizophrenia to mobility of individuals with other mental disorders or with no mental disorders. Little research has been undertaken to describe differences between single (i.e., infrequent) and multiple (i.e., frequent) movers with schizophrenia, and the association between frequency of mobility and health and health service use. Methods The data source is population-based administrative rec...

Tags: record linkage; population; disorder; Schizophrenia Programs; severe mental illness

In Search of Cultural Competence in Evaluation: Toward Principles and Practices

Authors: Thomson-Robinson, Melva; Hopson, Rodney; SenGupta, Saumita

Journal Name: New Directions for Evaluation

Publication Date: 2004

This volume focuses on culturally competent evaluation. The first chapter is an overview of culture, cultural competence, and culturally competent evaluation; the other chapters provide case studies on the implementation of culturally competent evaluation in a variety of settings and with several populations. The volume contributors also present lessons learned from their experiences and recommendations for implementing cultural competent evaluations in general. This volume is part of an important dis...

Tags: cultural and linguistic competence; research and evaluation

Peterbrorough Community Plan for Homelessness and Housing Security

Authors: Sandeman, Gillian; Lyon, Cheryl; Lyons, Gail; Jackson, Margaret; McKeen, Maureen; Murray, Sister Joyce; Robinson, Kelly; Ready, Casey; Pineda, Jorge; Zimmerman, Sandy; Berry-Merriam, Dawn

Publication Date: 2000

The Community Plan for Homelessness and Housing Security has been prepared by a steering committee for the Affordable Housing Action Committee (AHAC), a communitybased group that was formed just over a year ago by Peterborough city and county councils to advise them on all matters related to affordable housing. This community plan is at once a modest and an ambitious endeavor. It is modest because it does little to address the root causes of homelessness and housing insecurity. We address the need f...

Tags: community plan

Incarceration associated with homelessness, mental disorder, and co-occurring substance abuse

Authors: Dale E. McNiel, Ph. D. ; Renée L. Binder, M. D. ; Jo C. Robinson, M. A. ; McNiel, Dale E.

This study assessed relationships between homelessness, mental disorder, and incarceration. It looked at databases of 12,934 individuals who entered the San Francisco County jail system during the first 6 months of 2000. The study concluded that although representing only a small proportion of the general population, people who were homeless and who were identified as having mental disorders accounted for a substantial proportion of persons who were incarcerated.

Tags: crime; disorders; incarceration; jail; justice system; psychiatric disabilities; san francisco; substance related disorders; urban