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LAMP in L.A.'s skid row: a model for community-based support services.
1LAMP, Inc., Los Angeles.
New Directions for Mental Health Services
|January 1, 1992
Summary
Effective community-based programs can support individuals with mental illness after psychiatric hospitalization. This approach involves participant collaboration, offering a successful alternative to reinstitutionalization for the homeless mentally ill population.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Social Work
- Public Health
Background:
- Deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients has led to challenges in community-based support.
- A societal trend is emerging towards reinstitutionalization due to perceived failures in community integration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe an effective community-based program for individuals with mental illness.
- To highlight a successful model that counters the trend of reinstitutionalization.
Main Methods:
- The program involves the full participation of homeless individuals diagnosed with mental illness.
- Focus on collaborative and community-centered support structures.
Main Results:
- The described community-based program is demonstrably effective.
- Participant involvement is key to the program's success.
Conclusions:
- Community-based programs, when designed with participant involvement, can be highly effective.
- Successful models exist that support the integration of deinstitutionalized individuals with mental illness into the community, offering an alternative to reinstitutionalization.