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Message ID: 10611

Date: 2019-12-07

Author:Dworsky, Amy

Subject:RE: Reducing ACS Involvement as an outcome of Family Supportive Housing Intervention (in development)

Urban Institute led the evaluation of the study of supportive housing programs for families involved with the child welfare system. https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center/projects/supportive-housing-families-child-welfare-system From: bounce-124189322-55641443@list.cornell.edu On Behalf Of Jesse Wilkinson Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:15 PM To: Child Maltreatment Researchers Subject: Reducing ACS Involvement as an outcome of Family Supportive Housing Intervention (in development) Good evening, Does anyone have thoughts or guidance about about family interventions for reducing risk for child maltreatment and/or ACS involvement in the context of a homelessness and/or mental illness? I realize this is a big topic but am working on developing a Supportive Housing model for families. "Reducing risk for ACS involvement" has been identified as an outcome for this project. Background: there is a whole lot of evidence supporting the effectiveness of Supportive Housing interventions in achieving positive outcomes for individuals impacted by homelessness and/or mental illness-- that is, providing permanent affordable housing with fully-integrated intensive support services (primary care, case management, psychiatric services) in-house works really well to stabilize vulnerable folks! To my knowledge there's no prevailing guidance around best practices for Supportive Housing programs with families. Current efforts/project status: We built some time into this grant to engage in some needs assessment work around developing effective services. We are just getting started on planning with a workgroup, and are really quite open to designing this intervention at present. For example, through speaking with program staff; domestic violence and child truancy issues have been identified as risk factors for ACS involvement that appear to be clinically important for our population. We have not systematically evaluated this yet. Please note: we have access to three new family-specific NYC permanent supportive housing buildings, to pilot whatever intervention we settle on. It's really quite exciting and we have a rich opportunity to consider how to conduct an extremely compelling evaluation with the ultimate goal of supporting the nuanced needs of these complex families. Thanks in advance for thoughts, Jesse -- Jesse L. Wilkinson, M.A. Pronouns: she, her, hers NY, NY MOBILE: (231) 357-4067

Urban Institute led the evaluation of the study of supportive housing programs for families involved with the child welfare system. https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center/projects/supportive-housing-families-child-welfare-system From: bounce-124189322-55641443list.cornell.edu On Behalf Of Jesse Wilkinson Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:15 PM To: Child Maltreatment Researchers Subject: Reducing ACS Involvement as an outcome of Family Supportive Housing Intervention (in development) Good evening, Does anyone have thoughts or guidance about about family interventions for reducing risk for child maltreatment and/or ACS involvement in the context of a homelessness and/or mental illness? I realize this is a big topic but am working on developing a Supportive Housing model for families. "Reducing risk for ACS involvement" has been identified as an outcome for this project. Background: there is a whole lot of evidence supporting the effectiveness of Supportive Housing interventions in achieving positive outcomes for individuals impacted by homelessness and/or mental illness-- that is, providing permanent affordable housing with fully-integrated intensive support services (primary care, case management, psychiatric services) in-house works really well to stabilize vulnerable folks! To my knowledge there's no prevailing guidance around best practices for Supportive Housing programs with families. Current efforts/project status: We built some time into this grant to engage in some needs assessment work around developing effective services. We are just getting started on planning with a workgroup, and are really quite open to designing this intervention at present. For example, through speaking with program staff; domestic violence and child truancy issues have been identified as risk factors for ACS involvement that appear to be clinically important for our population. We have not systematically evaluated this yet. Please note: we have access to three new family-specific NYC permanent supportive housing buildings, to pilot whatever intervention we settle on. It's really quite exciting and we have a rich opportunity to consider how to conduct an extremely compelling evaluation with the ultimate goal of supporting the nuanced needs of these complex families. Thanks in advance for thoughts, Jesse -- Jesse L. Wilkinson, M.A. Pronouns: she, her, hers NY, NY MOBILE: (231) 357-4067