Tuesday, September 09, 2003

Developing the “Support ” in Supportive Housing: A Guide to Providing Services in Housing
A 211-page manual, in Adobe Acrobat format, produced by the Center for Urban and Community Services - "Drawing on CUCS' two decades of supportive housing experience and knowledge gathered from organizations around the country, the authors offer practical approaches to program design, staffing, service delivery, community building, conflict resolution, mental health, HIV/AIDS, and substance use. The guide also provides annotated bibliographies and links to a range of Web sites."  
  

SAMHSA's Latest National Survey providing prevalences of substance use in the U.S
Page at the SAMHSA web site indexing documents and resources related to the National Survey on Drug Use & Health (formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse), "the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older." See, especially, the press release, the Overview (in either web or Acrobat formats), the results (also in web and Acrobat formats) and the chapter in the report, Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Health Problems.  
  

Neighborhood Residence Tied To Mental Health
Center for the Advancement of Health press release at InteliHealth - "A new study of an innovative federal housing program found that parents who moved to neighborhoods with low levels of poverty reported significantly less mental distress than parents who remained in high-poverty areas."