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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/740318-canadas-at-hom
 echez-soi-housing-first-project-for-homeless-persons-with-mental-illness-m
 oving-evidence-into-policy-and-practice
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - 7101 avenue du Parc\, 7101\, avenue du 
 Parc\, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3N 1X9
SUMMARY:Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Project for Homeless Person
 s with Mental Illness: Moving Evidence into Policy and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Séminaire de l'IRSPUM
\nTitre du séminaire :Canada's At Home/
 Chez Soi Housing First Project for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness: M
 oving Evidence into Policy and Practice
\nThe At Home / Chez Soi Project e
 valuated the impacts of Housing First on chronically homeless persons with
  mental illness in five Canadian cities. The presentation shows how qualit
 ative research and involving people with lived experience can add to the v
 alue of a randomized controlled trial. Findings showed Housing First to be
  superior to standard care in rapidly ending homelessness and improving th
 e functioning\, quality of life\, and life trajectories of participants. M
 oreover\, participating in Housing First produced cost offsets related to 
 reduced use of services that varied depending on the level of need. Prior 
 to the conclusion of the project\, knowledge translation\, based on the in
 terim findings\, led to a change in federal homelessness policy that empha
 sized the Housing First approach. After the project ended\, an evidence-in
 formed initiative\, sponsored by the Mental Health Commission of Canada\, 
 was developed to disseminate this approach across Canada. An in-depth exam
 ination of the processes and outcomes of implementation in 6 of the 18 com
 munities that took part in this initiative demonstrated a shift to a Housi
 ng First approach. The accomplishments\, as well as the barriers and facil
 itators that have been encountered in this initiative\, are described and 
 the audience will be encouraged to reflect upon and discuss their own adve
 ntures in the world of adaptation/adoption of evidence-based programs.Conf
 érencier :Geoffrey Nelson
\nGeoffrey Nelson is Professor of Psychology at
  Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Ontario. His research and practic
 e has focused on housing and community mental health programs for people w
 ith serious mental illness and community-based prevention programs for chi
 ldren and families. In 2013 he received the award for Distinguished Contri
 butions to Theory and Research in Community Psychology from the Society fo
 r Community Research and Action (SCRA)\, Division 27 (Community Psychology
 ) of the American Psychological Association\, and he received the McNeill 
 Award for Innovation in Community Mental Health from SCRA and the American
  Psychological Foundation in 1999.
\nAnimation :Sarah FraserChercheuse\, I
 RSPUM\, et professeure adjointe à la Faculté des arts et des sciences - 
 École de psychoéducation\, Université de Montréal
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