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There is little doubt among scientists and the general public that homelessness, mental illness, and addiction are inter-related. InOf Others Inside, Darin Weinberg examines how these inter-relations have taken form in the United States. He links the establishment of these connections to the movement of mental health and addiction treatment from redemptive processes to punitive ones and back again, and explores the connection between social welfare, rehabilitation, and the criminal justice system.Seeking to offer a new sociological understanding of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disability,Of Others Insideconsiders the general social conditions of homelessness, poverty, and social marginality in the U.S. Weinberg also explores questions about American perceptions of these conditions, and examines in great detail the social reality of mental disability and drug addiction without reducing people's suffering to simple notions of biological fate or social disorder.

Starting in the 1990s with Jim, a person who was homeless and initially refused help from outreach workers, Citizenship & Mental Health tells a 20-year story of practice, theory, and research to support the full participation of persons with mental illnesses who, in many cases, have also been homeless, have criminal charges in their past, and are poor.

This timely book provides a framework for practice for professionals developing and running psychologically-informed services to meet the needs of socially excluded people with complex needs. It covers theory and practice from a psychodynamic perspective and provides practical interventions and case studies.

\"Like other states around the nation, Florida is home to tens of thousands of people who live on the street - a fact of life that has vexed city and county leaders for decades. Now, state legislators are swooping in with what some are calling a cutting-edge solution to the homeless crisis they say will make streets both safer and cleaner in the Sunshine State. The new law would force counties and cities in Florida to ban the homeless from sleeping in public places but allow local governments to set up designated camps with running water, toilets, security and access to mental health services.\" (South Florida Sun - Sentinel ) Read more about the Florida Legislature's plan to address homelessness.

\"Homelessness set two records in 2023. The increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023 was the largest ever recorded since the government began collecting data in 2007. That brought the number of Americans living in homeless shelters and on the streets to an all-time high... Some unique factors contributed to the jump in homelessness in 2023, but policies to address homelessness have been off track for a long time.\" (TCA News Service) Read more about the difference in the \"housing first\" and \"treatment first\" policies to reduce homelessness.

\"President Trump's strategy is straightforward: Everyone living outside must go inside, no exceptions. The president's recent executive order, \"Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets,\" goes even further, jeopardizing federal funding to cities and states that don't follow a similar strategy. These efforts mark the end of a decade of national tolerance of street sleeping, tent cities and public drug use.\" (Wall Street Journal) This viewpoint article supports President Trump's efforts to end homelessness in Washington, D.C.

\"'All In' -- the Biden administration's new blueprint to reduce homelessness -- is all wrong. Housing First, a policy experiment instituted by the Obama-Biden administration in 2013, grounds the plan. This approach defunded treatment services, prophesying that the provision of permanent housing would end homelessness in 10 years. A decade later, homelessness has reached unprecedented levels. While the global pandemic contributed slightly to the overall escalation, this road was paved well before it struck.\" (USA Today (Online)) In this viewpoint article, the author argues that the Biden administration's Housing First policy has not worked.

\"It may be hard to believe looking at the current state of major American cities, but 2023 was supposed to be the year that all types of homelessness would be eradicated. That's what the [Barack] Obama administration promised when in 2013 the Department of Housing and Urban Development formally changed the federal government's homelessness policy to 'housing first,' under which homeless people receive federally funded housing vouchers with no strings attached. Things haven't panned out as the administration planned.\" (Wall Street Journal Online) Read more about the Obama administration's promise to end homelessness by 2023.

\"It's before dawn when two outreach workers find a homeless man known as Juice near a train station in Harlem...Gladys Rivera and Ali Olson are part of a citywide, round-the-clock army of workers for nonprofits contracted by the city. Their aim is to get the homeless into shelter, and so they make the rounds of upper Manhattan, checking on clients, identifying newcomers to the streets and trying to connect them with services. They are often rejected, but they do not give up.\" (Associated Press) Read more about outreach for homeless persons in New York.

Stigma and discrimination toward individuals experiencing homelessness and mental disorders remain pervasive across societies. However, there are few longitudinal studies of stigma and discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness. This study aimed to identify the two-year group trajectories of stigma and discrimination and examine the predictive role of mental health characteristics among 414 homeless adults with mental illness participating in the extended follow-up phase of the Toronto At Home/Chez Soi (AH/CS) randomized trial site. Mental health-related perceived stigma and discrimination were measured at baseline, one, and two years using validated scales. Group-based-trajectory modelling was used to identify stigma and discrimination group trajectory memberships and the effect of the Housing First treatment (rent supplements and mental health support services) vs treatment as usual on these trajectories. The associations between mental health-related characteristics and trajectory group memberships were also assessed using multinomial logistic regression. Over two-years, three group trajectories of stigma and discrimination were identified. For discrimination, participants followed a low, moderate, or increasingly high discrimination group trajectory, while for stigma, participants followed a low, moderate or high stigma group trajectory. The Housing First treatment had no significant effect on discrimination or stigma trajectories groups. For the discrimination trajectories, major depressive episode, mood disorder with psychotic features, alcohol abuse, suicidality, severity of mental health symptoms, and substance use severity in the previous year were predictors of moderate and increasingly high discrimination trajectories. History of discrimination within healthcare setting was also positively associated with following a moderate or high discrimination trajectory. For the stigma trajectories, substance dependence, high mental health symptoms severity, substance use severity, and discrimination experiences within healthcare settings were the main predictors for the moderate trajectory group; while substance dependence, suicidality, mental health symptom severity, substance use severity and discrimination experiences within health care setting were also positive predictors for the high stigma trajectory group. Ethno-racial status modified the association between having a major depression episode, alcohol dependence, and the likelihood of being a member of the high stigma trajectory group. This study showed that adults experiencing mental illness and homelessness followed distinct stigma and discrimination group trajectories based on their mental health-problems. There is an urgent need to increase focus on strategies and policies to reduce stigma and discrimination in this population.