Homeless narratives & pretreatment pathways

By Jay S. Levy

Subjects: addiction, outreach, Case studies, homeless outreach, Homeless persons, Services for, housing first, mental illness, Mental health services, homelessness

Description: Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing is based on the author's many years of doing outreach counseling, advocacy, and developing housing alternatives for chronically homeless individuals throughout NYC, Boston, and Western MA. Stories of survival, meaning making and overcoming are shared along with an approach for helping those who are most in need. The National Coalition for the Homeless included Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways on their list of 20 essential books on homelessness, hunger, and poverty. ForeWord Digital Review "Given the enormous and increasing budget cuts facing these historically tax-supported programs, this epidemic of homelessness forces us to care for one another in creative ways that are unprecedented in recent memory. For this pressing reason, Levy's book presents a pretreatment model for action that is becoming necessary reading as narrative for improving policy, supervision, and outreach counseling services for the most vulnerable among us." -Pamela Harris Kaiser - More information is available at www.jayslevy.com