CMHS CSAT COLLABORATIVE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS/

The Collaborative Demonstration Program for Homeless Individuals is pr oviding an opportunity for several community agencies in the United St ates to explore innovative intervention and treatment strategies to ad dress the needs of homeless people with co-occurring (mental illness a nd substance abuse) disorders. This cooperative agreement, funded join tly by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is a $3 million project supporting programs in various community agencies to develop, document, and evalu ate programs for persons who are homeless with co-occurring disorders to be used as models in other communities. The program models include: Assertive Community Treatment, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Therapeut ic Community, and an integrated treatment model. The first phase of th e two-phase project funded 16 programs in the U.S. to develop manuals within their primary treatment modalities for homeless people with co- occurring disorders. For Phase II of the project, six of the 16 model programs were competitively selected to demonstrate program impact thr ough formal program evaluation efforts. The data derived from the vari ous projects will be compiled into a compendium of information for sta te agencies and community service providers throughout the U.S.