Homelessness Among the Mentally Ill

Homelessness Among the Mentally Ill: Why We Are Failing to Solve the Problem, and What Needs to Be Done?
Speaker:
Robert Okin, MD
Professor Emeritus • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences • UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
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Learning objectives:
• Describe five subjective and objective experiences of people who are homeless and mentally ill
• List five immediate causes of homelessness among mentally ill people and describe five deep structural causes, all of which help explain why this problem has not been solved
• List potential solutions, both immedate and structural, that would ameliorate the problem of homelessness among the mentally ill
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UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds presentations are for educational purposes and intended only for behavioral/mental health professionals and clinical providers