The Center for Homelessness
Prevention Studies is pleased to sponsor
"Preventing Homelessness," a lecture
by Martha Burt, principal research associate
at the Urban Institute's Center on Labor,
Human Services and Population. The Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies is part of the Mailman School of Public
Health.
Burt, a leading expert on homelessness in
the United States, will devote her talk
to the relatively elaborate set of programs
and policies of the Massachusetts Department
of Mental Health (MDMH) in preventing or
quickly ending homelessness. Many MDMH clients
have serious and persistent mental illness
(SPMI) -- often with dual diagnosis –
a difficulty seen often in homeless populations.
A second part of the talk will focus on
how to ensure that families do not become
mired in homelessness.
The author of Helping America's Homeless:
Emergency Shelter or Affordable Housing?
(Urban Institute, 2001), Burt has conducted
studies for the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development that identify and
describe promising approaches to ending
and preventing homelessness.
The lecture will take place on May 25, from
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Columbia University
Medical Center, Elinson Conference Room,
600 W. 168th St., fourth floor.
For additional information, contact Shoshana
Vasheetz by email at szv1@columbia.edu or
by phone at (212) 305-6609.
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