Pretreatment guide for homeless outreach & housing first : helping couples, youth, and unaccompanied adults

Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First could be a text book for a course on working with chronically homeless people. It is a hands-on manual full of caring, compassion and decency. The principles here applied to homeless people are those that should guide all helping relationships such as psychotherapy and social work. This is actually best expressed in the opening sentence of the last chapter: “A pretreatment guide based on universal principles of care has been presented and applied to Homeless Outreach and Housing First activities.” It is all evidence-based, and the author’s expertise shines through.

A really valuable aspect of this book is the level of detail in the case studies. This makes it a primer for 

inexperienced therapists and social workers. Equally useful is the way in which the same principles are applied in different circumstances, cumulatively adding to their understanding. This is always fresh, never boring.

As always, editing Jay Levy’s work has been an honor.

This book is essential reading to both people new to the movement to end homelessness and folks who have been in the trenches for many years.  Learn how to do effective outreach with the chronic homeless population, and the ins and outs of the Housing First model.   The personal stories and the success cases will give inspiration to work even harder to help both individuals and for ending homelessness in your community.

Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing
National Coalition for the Homeless
Washington, DC

The above review is noted on the book's back cover. 

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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First could be a text book for a course on working with chronically homeless people. It is a hands-on manual full of caring, compassion and decency. The principles here applied to homeless people are those that should guide all helping relationships such as psychotherapy and social work. This is actually best expressed in the opening sentence of the last chapter: “A pretreatment guide based on universal principles of care has been presented and applied to Homeless Outreach and Housing First activities.” It is all evidence-based, and the author’s expertise shines through.

A really valuable aspect of this book is the level of detail in the case studies. This makes it a primer for

inexperienced therapists and social workers. Equally useful is the way in which the same principles are applied in different circumstances, cumulatively adding to their understanding. This is always fresh, never boring.

As always, editing Jay Levy’s work has been an honor.