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September 18, 2007
A GCI Seminar
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| Title |
Understanding and Ending
the Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration Through Permanent
Supportive Housing |
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| Speaker |
John Fallon
Program Manager, Returning Home Initiative
Corporation for Supportive Housing
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| Location |
Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
RSVP
Appreciated: (312) 996-8700 |
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John Fallon
is a Program Manager in Illinois at the Corporation
for Supportive Housing (CSH), working as part of the Returning
Home Initiative. This is a six million dollar 3-year national
study designed to extend and develop the model of permanent
supportive housing for those persons who are homeless and disabled
and frequently cycle through the criminal justice system.
John comes to CSH after eighteen years at Thresholds directing
two specialized teams working to place people from Cook County
Jail back into the community. Typical members had 50 arrests,
20 psychiatric hospitalizations and decades of
homelessness in their history. This successful project was awarded the national
2001 Gold Achievement Award for small community based programs from the American
Psychiatric Association.
John has over 25 years of experience in
the mental health field, including providing residential
and outreach services to adolescents, children, persons who
are homeless, as well as persons in correctional and health
care settings who have a wide range of co-occurring barriers in
addition to their being diagnosed with a variety of specific
psychiatric disorders.
Read the GCI News story.
View the slides from this presentation.
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