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From the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways Jay S. Levy brings us a new educational resource entitled Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned. This monograph features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, a new story entitled ""Ronald's Narrative: The Original Housing First"", and an interview that was originally featured in Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing. These three documents provide a rich and fertile resource for learning, reflecting, and informing needed action that promotes high quality outreach services and housing stabilization for the most vulnerable among us. The Reader will...* Learn about the positive measurable impact of a Housing First approach and its moral, fiscal, and quality of life implications. * Explore the relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First, as well as understand the five basic pretreatment principles that can be applied to both. * Learn how to utilize a Pretreatment Approach with individuals experiencing major mental illness and addiction. * Understand how to better integrate Housing First and Homeless Outreach initiatives with homelessness policy. Praise for Jay S. Levy ""This is one of the best guides I have read about working with the underserved and homeless. I wonder why all cities don't put it into place? How we approach our homeless can defi nitely make a diff erence. Sometimes it's not in the techniques, but in the attitude of the case manager."" --Carol S. Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views Learn more at www.JaySLevy.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com

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""This is an excellent book for aldermen, social workers, counselors, taxpayers, nurses, street helpers, and many others to read. It is excellent because how it gets the reader into the topic and provides clear definitions and examples. This is a brief and very clear book about not only providing outreach to get people ready to be housed but also moving ahead with the well-known strategy of using ""housing first."" Housing first is the successful-but underused-process of getting persons indoors right away in the move to solve homelessness. Rather than making people jump through a dozen hoops, plus half-way houses and shelters, plus counseling ad infinitum, housing first gets the person stable housing so that all of the other pieces can fall into place. Why is this book so excellent? Among other reasons-such as its clarity-its brevity is wonderful. It can be read easily in one setting and so it is perfect for weekend retreats with board members and others who need to come to a quick understanding of how housing first works as the key element to successful placement of persons into the indoors."" -- Dr. Thomas Hansen

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Jay S. Levy has spent more than 30 years working with individuals who experience homelessness. He is the author of the highly acclaimed books Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First and Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways. He has also published a monograph and several journal articles on Homelessness issues. His newest publication features multiple authors from both sides of the Atlantic and is entitled-Cross Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE). Jay developed Pretreatment as an approach for helping people without homes and to promote inclusion. He has helped to create new Housing First programs such as the Regional Engagement and Assessment for Chronically Homeless program (REACH).Jay is currently employed by Eliot CHS-Homeless Services as a Regional Manager for the statewide SAMHSA-PATH Homeless Outreach Team. He is also an adjunct teacher at Anna Maria College and recently taught a unique graduate psychology course on Outreach Counseling, which integrated Pretreatment and PIE perspectives with the clinical challenges of homeless services work.Jay has achieved formal recognition from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health for his ongoing efforts to help under-served homeless individuals through his direct service, clinical supervision of staff, and program development. He received his MSW degree in clinical social work from Columbia University in 1988. Jay lives in Western MA with his wife, Louise. His two children, Talia and Sara, are off to college and beyond. He is an avid stargazer.More information is available at the following website: http: //www.jayslevy.com/

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