Matthew McCoy, Ippolytos Kalofonos, Lisa Altman, Lillian Gelberg, Peter Capone-Newton, Kimberly Lynch, Kimberly Clair, Mariam Nazinyan, Matthew McGahran, Chanin Santini, Monte Daugharty, Emily DeFraites, Sonya Gabrielian
A veteran-clinician-researcher partnership-the Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Service (CTRS)-enabled quality improvement within a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-sanctioned homeless encampment created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the differing concerns of clinicians and operational leaders led to challenges in defining CTRS's goals and quality metrics, partnering with frontline social work and peer staff (N=11) and veterans (N=21 of 381 CTRS participants) and considering their feedback resolved those differences...
July 26, 2023: Psychiatric Services: a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association