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Study: Homelessness Risk Among Veterans
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
Study: Homelessness Risk Among Veterans
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
A multi-million dollar settlement was reached by the New York Attorney General after an investigation into direct mail fundraising abuses at one of the country's largest Veterans' charities. This settlement is to be used on behalf of disabled Veterans, specifically to advance the science in the areas of mental healthcare for Veterans, Veteran homelessness, improving the quality of Veteran healthcare, and healthcare for women Veterans. One of the projects selected for funding to fulfill this goal is led by Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, PhD, of the VA’s National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans and the HSR&D Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP).Issue area: Veteran Homelessness
Project: Identifying and Measuring Risk for Homelessness Among Veterans
To prevent and end homelessness among Veterans, VA has refined its programming and policies to focus on ending chronic homelessness and preventing new episodes of homelessness. To support the latter, VA has allocated close to $1 billion toward homelessness prevention services since FY2011 through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program. To assist in the identification of Veterans in need of homelessness prevention, the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans developed the Homelessness Screening Clinical Reminder (HSCR), a two-question universal screener that assesses housing instability among Veterans who present for outpatient care and are not already engaged with VA Homeless Programs. During FY2013, more than 4 million Veterans responded to the HSCR.
Among those screened, 0.8% reported current homelessness and 1.0% reported imminent risk. This study will evaluate VA's efforts at identifying Veterans at risk of homelessness and linking them with services of their choosing that are both efficient and effective. Specific project goals include:
• Validate the HSCR and assess prevalence and risk factors for homelessness and imminent risk among Veteran users of VHA healthcare services;
• Assess the effectiveness of the HSCR at linking Veterans who screen positive for homelessness or risk with subsequent services; and
• Evaluate the psychometric properties and efficacy of an existing instrument used by the SSVF program to quantify risk of homelessness among Veterans.