Many homeless Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) enroll in the VA's Supported Housing (VASH) program but struggle to obtain and sustain housing. Social skills are an important-but underappreciated-determinant of housing outcomes for homeless adults. The investigators hypothesize that homeless Veterans with SMI who participate in a social skills training program, tailored for housing-related social skills, will obtain housing quicker, retain housing longer, and show improved mental health outcomes compared to Veterans with similar needs not participating in such a program.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
35
12-session social skills training group for persons with homeless experiences and serious mental illness delivered once a week for 12 weeks
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
West Los Angeles, California, United States
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire - 8
Acceptability of the intervention to participants Scores range from 8 to 32, with higher values indicating higher satisfaction (no specific cut-offs to indicate specific levels of satisfaction)
Time frame: 12 weeks after baseline assessment at start of intervention
Percent Days Housed for One Year After Intervention Completion
We will use the medical record, augmented by the residential time line follow back, to assess longitudinal housing outcomes for Veterans receiving this intervention
Time frame: 1 year
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