Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A 2009 US study, estimated that 20–25% of homeless people, compared with 6% of the non-homeless, have severe mental illness. [2] Others estimate that up to one-third of the homeless have a mental illness. [3] In January 2015, the most extensive survey ever undertaken found 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States ...
In LA's Homeless Opportunity Providing Employment (HOPE), for homeless adults with mental illness, individual characteristics in regards to specific mental illness or substance abuse played little role in the systemic difference to the employment outcomes. However, these factors including race and ethnicity, affected individual housing outcomes.
Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]
Mental illness is reported in 30% of homeless persons, and in 50% to 60% of homeless women. [22] Homeless women without children are often more likely to disclose a mental illness, [82] which can include antisocial personality behavior, depression, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder. [83] [84]
Despite decades of effort, California is still far from creating an effective approach to treating severely mentally ill citizens, many of whom are homeless and desperately subsisting on our streets.
The 2022 book Homelessness is a Housing Problem looks at per capita homelessness rates across the country, and what factors influence the rates. It concludes that high rates of homelessness are caused by shortages of affordable housing, not by mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty.
Dec. 20—Since June 5 the first-of-its-kind facility to help homeless people in Hawaii with mental health and addiction issues has gotten 101 homeless people off the street. Since June 5 the ...
A program designed to send mentally ill, addicted or homeless adults into treatment instead of jails when arrested in L.A. is having little success.