Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health

Preface
Acknowledgements

SECTION I. OVERVIEW

1. Creating a Process of Inquiry and Change
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, and Elsabeth Jensen

2. Methodologies Employed
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Elsabeth Jensen, and Heather Atyeo

SECTION II. UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE

Introduction

3. Housing, Income Support, and Mental Health: Points of Disconnection
Cheryl Forchuk, Ruth Schofield, Libbey Joplin, Rick Csiernik, Carolyne Gorlick, and Katherine Turner

4. Surviving the Tornado: Mental Health Consumer-Survivor Experiences of Getting, Losing, and Keeping Housing
Cheryl Forchuk, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Rick Csiernik, and Katherine Turner

5. Families Caring for Members with Mental Illness: A Vicious Cycle
Catherine Ward-Griffin, Ruth Schofield, Sandra Vos, and Robin Coatsworth-Puspoky

6. De-“Myth”-ifying Mental Health
Rick Csiernik, Cheryl Forchuk, Mark Speechley, and Catherine Ward-Griffin

7. “It’s Important to Be Proud of the Place You Live in”: Housing Problems and Preferences of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors
Cheryl Forchuk, Geoffrey Nelson, and G. Brent Hall

8. Current and Preferred Housing of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors
Geoffrey Nelson, G. Brent Hall, and Cheryl Forchuk

SECTION III. HOMELESSNESS AND ITS PREVENTION

Introduction

9. Perceptions of Health and Health Service Utilization among Homeless and Housed Mental Health Consumer-Survivors
Ruth Schofield, Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, and Stephanie Brown

10. Homelessness and Health in Adolescents
Amy Haldenby, Helene Berman, and Cheryl Forchuk

11. From Psychiatric Ward to the Streets and Shelters
Cheryl Forchuk, Gord Russell, Shani Kingston-MacClure, Katherine Turner, and Susan Dill

12. An Intervention to Prevent Homelessness among Individuals Discharged from Psychiatric Wards to Shelters and “No Fixed Address”
Cheryl Forchuk, Shani Kingston-MacClure, Michele Van Beers, Cheryl Smith, Rick Csiernik, Jeffrey S. Hoch, and Elsabeth Jensen

13. Using Electronic Patient Records in Mental Health Care to Capture Housing and Homelessness Information of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors
Richard G. Booth

SECTION IV. ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES

Introduction

14. The Changing Face of Diversity in the Context of Homelessness
Helen Berman, Carolyne Gorlick, Rick Csiernik, Susan L. Ray, Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, and Fatmeh Al Zoubi

15. Gaining Ground, Losing Ground: The Paradoxes of Rural Homelessness
Cheryl Forchuk, Phyllis Montgomery, Helene Berman, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Rick Csiernik, Carolyne Gorlick, Elsabeth Jensen, and Patrick Riesterer

16. Exploring Differences between Community-Based Women and Men with a History of Mental Illness
Cheryl Forchuk, Elsabeth Jensen, Rick Csiernik, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Susan L. Ray, Phyllis Montgomery, and Linda Wan

17. Uprooted and Displaced: A Critical Narrative Study of Homeless, Aboriginal, and Newcomer Girls in Canada
Helen Berman, Gloria Alvernaz Mulachy, Cheryl Forchuk, Kathy Edmunds, Amy Haldenby, and Raquel Lopez

18. Is Substance Abuse Even an Issue? Perceptions of Male and Female Community-Based Mental Health System Consumer-Survivors
Rick Csiernik

SECTION V. MOVING FORWARD

Introduction

19. Margaret’s Haven: The Story and the Process
Elsabeth Jensen, Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Katherine Turner, and Pamela McKane

20. Why Should Communities Be Involved in Research?
Cheryl Forchuk

Appendix A: Glossary of Housing Terms
Cheryl Forchuk, Pamela McKane, Jim Molineux, Ruth Shofield, and Rick Csiernik

Appendix B: CURA Fact Sheets

List of Contributing Authors
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index