Journal article
Evaluation of a Housing First programme for people from the public mental health sector with severe and persistent mental illnesses and precarious housing: Housing, health and service use outcomes
DR Dunt, SE Day, L Collister, B Fogerty, R Frankish, DJ Castle, C Hoppner, S Stafrace, S Sherwood, JR Newton, S Redston
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2022
Abstract
Aims and context: This paper reports the evaluation of the Doorway program (2015-18) in Melbourne, Australia. Doorway extends the original Housing First (HF) model in providing housing support to people with precarious housing at-risk of homelessness with Serious and Persistent Mental Illnesses (SPMIs) receiving care within Victoria’s public mental health system. Doorway participants source and choose properties through the open rental market, and receive rental subsidies, assistance, advocacy and brokerage support through their Housing and Recovery Worker (HRW). The aim of this study is to estimate Doorway’s impact on participants’ housing, quality of life and mental health service use. Met..
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Funding Acknowledgements
NThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The first and second author received funding to undertake this study from Wellways, the organisation delivering Doorway. This funding in turn was derived from the Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services as part of its funding of Wellways for the Doorways programme.