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Determinants of Community Integration Among Formerly Homeless Veterans Who Received Supportive Housing.

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:Community integration is recognized as a meaningful goal that is highly relevant to the long-term success of supportive housing programs. Research to date highlights concerns that some individuals in permanent supportive housing remain socially isolated and have limited success in other domains of community integration. However, we know little about what factors impact formerly homeless veterans' ability to achieve community integration. To identify factors associated with community integration among homeless veterans housed through the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) Supportive Housing program (HUD-VASH), we performed secondary database analyses of Veterans (n = 560) housed via HUD-VASH in the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System from 10/1/14-9/30/15. We conducted ordinal and logit regressions to examine associations between baseline HUD-VASH participant characteristics, supportive housing voucher type, health service utilization in the year post-housing, and three types of community integration outcomes (i.e., change in community adjustment, status of housing stability, and change in employment). Data were obtained from HOMES (VA's homeless registry) and Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) (VA's a national administrative dataset of VA inpatient and outpatient care). Mental health service utilization was negatively associated with community adjustment, housing stability, and employment. Employment at baseline was positively associated with housing stability and employment. Also, substance use disorder visits was positively associated with employment, and combined medical and substance use disorder diagnoses was positively associated with change in community adjustment. We considered 29 variables and found relatively few were associated with community integration. Consistent with previous research, our study highlights the importance of mental health needs, and suggests that utilization of mental health services is an important indicator of improvements in community adjustment, housing stability, and employment.

journal_name

Front Psychiatry

journal_title

Frontiers in psychiatry

authors

Chinchilla M,Gabrielian S,Hellemann G,Glasmeier A,Green M

doi

10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00472

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-06-26 00:00:00

pages

472

issn

1664-0640

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Determinants of Community Integration Among Formerly Homeless Veterans Who Received Supportive Housing.