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  • Vancouver's Safe Environment for Drug Addicts

    Vince Beiser

    October 27, 2008 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    In the midst of high rates of drug abuse, Vancouver’s city government has instituted harm reduction programs. These include a safe site for drug users, needle exchanges, changes in policing of drug use, and providing measured doses of drugs to users.

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  • One Spoonful at a Time

    Harriet Brown

    November 26, 2006 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Maudsley approach to treating adolescent anorexia puts families at the center of the process, helping patients overcome their aversion to eating by calmly insisting that they nourish themselves back to physical and psychological health. This alternative to hospitalization has proven very effective in multiple studies, even though it contradicts traditional approaches, which keep parents at a distance based on the belief that they are part of the problem. The process is long and laborious, and relapses are common. But one mother's journey shows the hope that emerges when a deadly disease recedes.

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  • The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

    Kevin Fagan Brent Ward

    October 29, 2006 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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  • Reaching into a void: For mayor's team of street crusaders, getting the chronically homeless into housing requires patience as they battle their addictions -- and persistence if they relapse

    Kevin Fagan

    December 06, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.

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  • Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

    Kevin Fagan

    June 14, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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  • Shame of the city: Signs of hope in helping S.F. homeless turn lives around / On-site medical, psychiatric aid makes housing program work at reasonable cost

    Kevin Fagan

    May 09, 2004 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the U.S. most supportive housing programs have a 75 percent turnover rate, meaning people end up in the streets again. Direct Access to Housing in California manages a turnover rate of only 15 percent by providing a home, counseling, and financial management.

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  • Solving San Francisco's crisis of homelessness requires a sweeping, costly plan for housing and treatment - and political unity that has been missing for two decades

    Kevin Fagan

    December 04, 2003 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To combat rampant homelessness, cities like New York are investing in supportive housing and comprehensive, consistent services for the homeless population. Although San Francisco has smaller-scale supportive housing programs. political will and regular funding are necessary to grow those initiatives and make a large impact on homelessness in the city.

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