A perspective on voluntary and involuntary outreach services for the homeless mentally ill
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in New Directions for Mental Health Services
- Vol. 1999 (82) , 9-19
- https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.23319998204
Abstract
Outreach teams use a range of strategies to engage people who are homeless and mentally ill and living on the streets. This chapter describes and evaluates the effectiveness of various voluntary and involuntary approaches and presents a new model program for serving this population.Keywords
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