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Housing First Training Center
Pathways to Housing, Inc. provides trainings that increase access to housing and services that end homelessness, support recovery and rebuild community. Pathways to Housing’s innovative model facilitates reintegration into communities by providing person-directed support services attached to immediate housing for individuals who are recovering from serious mental illness and long term homelessness.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES |
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Training for Existing Housing First Programs |
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Training Activities |
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Expected Outcomes |
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Housing First Training Team provide training at housing first site |
One or two day training |
Specifically designed on-site sessions planned with housing first leaders and staff, creating training around systemic and operational challenges faced by existing housing first programs |
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Visit to Pathways team sites in New York City or Washington, DC
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One or two day visit |
Provide your staff the opportunity to visualize and experience the program in action; observe team meetings, make apartment visits, talk with team members, consumers, psychiatrists, program directors, and housing coordinators |
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On-going teleconference support (1-2 hours) |
6 – 12 mos. |
Supports development & implementation of housing first philosophy and practice. A designated training leader can serve as the team’s consultant for a period of 6 to 12 months, answering questions by email and attending your team’s weekly or bi-weekly case review meetings via teleconference, offering case-by-case supervision and support to ensure effective housing first practice |
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Follow-up Visit - Consultation to ensure fidelity to the housing first model |
One day |
One day follow-up visit to observe program operations, data collection and outcomes evaluation, how to interpret and market data to policy makers/funders/community |
Technical Assistance to Design/Implement New Housing First Initiative |
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Housing First Partnership staff meet with program planners, funders, policy makers and consumers |
One to two days with follow-up |
For localities who are in planning stages of who and how to operate, evaluate and fund a local housing first program |
Presentation on Housing First Program and Practice |
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Pathways ED, Sam Tsemberis and Consumers present philosophy and practice of housing first |
One day |
Educates policy makers, psychiatric and medical providers, consumers and citizens; present possible funding mechanisms and how/who can implement housing first on local level; sharing challenges and success stories
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Housing First Partnership Training Faculty:
Sam J. Tsemberis, Ph.D. Founder of Pathways to Housing in 1992 and currently serving as the Executive Director. Dr. Tsemberis is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of the New York University Medical Center, and has published numerous articles on the topics of effective housing and treatment interventions for individuals who are homeless and have psychiatric disabilities.
Christy Respress – Pathways to Housing DC Program and Development Director; Christy Respress has over 10 years of experience working with individuals who are homeless and living with serious mental illness.
Sheryl Silver – Pathways to Housing Clinical Director for seven ACT teams serving over 500 individuals; Sheryl Silver has over 15 years experience working with persons who are homeless and living with serious mental illness in both Colorado and New York.
Jane Whiley, Timothy Jervis, Michael Riccio – Consumer Trainers
2004 – 2007: Pathways to Housing Training Center has brought Housing First trainings to: Salt Lake City, UT; San Francesco, CA; Chattanooga, TN; Tallahassee , FL; Baltimore, MD; Worcester, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC; Hartford, CT; Norfolk, VA.; Columbus, OH; Boston, MA; Denver, CO; Broward County, FL. and International Housing First Trainings to Japan, Canada, and Holland.
Please Contact Dr. Sam Tsemberis for further information, 212-289-0000 ext. 1101
ACT Training
The mission of the Institute for Assertive Community Treatment and Recovery Based Practice is to provide training, support, supervision, staff development and evaluation to ensure the consistent and effective implementation and continued adherence to the practice of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in New York State. As part of its mission, the Institute will also be responsible for the implementation and adherence of other evidence-based and recovery-focused practices within the ACT programs. The aim of The Institute is to develop ACT into the most effective and compassionate program serving individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness. The Institute’s training curriculum will utilize the ACT definition set by the national evidence-based practice consortium and the modification of these standards as adopted by the New York State Office of Mental Health (NYSOMH).
The Executive Director of the ACT Institute, Sam Tsemberis, PhD, provides oversight for the ACT Institute for current operations and new initiatives. Dr. Tsemberis is also the Executive Director of Pathways to Housing, Inc.