process and outcome in outreach programs for people who are homeless
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Process and Outcome in Outreach Programs for People Who Are Homeless. Hope Plaza Columbia, SC July 23, 2014 Candice Morgan, LMSW. Main Topics. Main topics include: Key components of successful outreach programs Outcome measures Implications for practice Limitations - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Process and Outcome in Outreach Programs for People Who Are HomelessHope PlazaColumbia, SCJuly 23, 2014
Candice Morgan, LMSW
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Main Topics
Main topics include:• Key components of successful
outreach programs• Outcome measures• Implications for practice• Limitations• Potential for evaluations here
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Outreach Program: Process Overview
❖ Intensive Case Management (ICM)
❖ Linked to Shelter for Men and Women
❖ Referrals to Outreach Case Management from Shelter
❖ Screen for and Identify
❖ Chronic Homelessness
❖ Severe Disability
❖ Psychiatric Symptoms
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Intensive Case Managers• Work 1 on 1
• Meet Whenever is Necessary
• Serve as Advocates
• Refer and Link
• Continued and Unwavering Support
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Relationship is Key
❖ Develop the relationship first
❖ Strengths Model of Case Management
❖ Direct Relationship between Program Elements and Program Outcomes
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Elements = Outcome
❖ What We DO Matters
❖ Frequent contact over a long time
❖ Help with basic survival problems
❖ Attempting to get to know the client
❖ No requirements to get services
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Outcome Measures
❖ How do we decide what to do and what to measure?
❖ Depends on the Philosophy of the Program
❖ Program Theory
❖ Availability of Valid and Reliable Measures
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Outcome Measures (cont.)
❖ Social Functioning (Relationship Building)
❖ Linkage to Medical and Psychiatric Services
❖ A way to evaluate outreach
❖ Longitudinal Study
❖ To determine which elements of outreach = outcomes
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Method:
❖ Baseline assessments
❖ Assessments repeated 9 and 18 months later
❖ 71 participants entered the study
❖ Lost 16 to attrition
❖ 55 participants completed study
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Procedures and Instruments
❖ Uniform Client Data Instrument (Mulkern & Manderscheid)
❖ Service Utilization Form
❖ Working Alliance Inventory (Horvath & Greenburg)
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Analysis
❖ Paired-samples t-test
❖ Change over 9 to 18 months
❖ Multivariate Analysis
❖ Program elements
❖ Outcomes
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Results
Social Functioning
Alliance, relationship, connection
Linkage to medical and psychiatry
Reduction of symptoms
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Discussion
❖ Implications for Practice
❖ Limitations
❖ Moving forward