Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization

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           News and Updates

New book in the works for September 2024 with a little help from my US and UK Colleagues –  Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond 

Solutions to Homelessness – Check out this link of helpful resources

-Most recent Publication (2021)- Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization

-Plenary Presentation at UK’s 2022 International Pathways from Homelessness Conference entitled- Pretreatment In Action: Creating Healing Relationships with the Most Vulnerable Among Us

Available via Barnes & NobleAmazon – All formats are also available worldwide via Better World Books and  Amazon-UK , Amazon CA, and other outlets-

Or order paperbacks directly from the publisher Here – Save 20% and get FREE Shipping when you use coupon code HELPHOMELESS 

Check out the Summary and advance reviews:

Jay Levy’s Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization provides the reader with a wonderfully crafted, detailed step-by-step manual with real world scenarios on how Pretreatment and the Stages of Engagement play out in the actual work. The vignettes are rich with descriptions that clearly come from a deep repertoire of experience working in the field that gives the reader confidence they are being guided by someone who has been in their shoes. The thoughtful questions and space to reflect add a helpful workbook touch to the feel of the text, and matches the grittiness of the material being covered.

-Joel Hunt, MPAS, PA-C
Director, Acclaim Street Medicine
Fort Worth, TX

Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization by Jay S. Levy, MSW is a landmark accomplishment. For those who do street outreach and street medicine, Jay has provided a much-needed framework for navigating the largely undefined terrain of therapeutic relationships with people who experience unsheltered homelessness.

-Dr. Jim Withers, Medical Director                                                                              Founder of the Street Medicine Institute                                                          Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

By using case studies and reflective exercises, Jay Levy has created a
highly readable and accessible guide to working with people who are street homeless. Levy’s enthusiasm for the work shines through on each page; he does not shy away from complexity, and the stories and situations he describes are as relevant in the UK as in his native USA.

-Dr.  Jenny Drife, START Homeless Outreach Team                                         South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust                                    Advisor to the Royal College of Psychiatrists on homelessness

Levy draws on respected approaches including Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. He integrates these into a clearly articulated practical approach that will also work with other significantly disadvantaged people living with trauma and marginalisation.

-Rohena Duncombe, BA, BSW, MSWAP
Social Work Academic & Researcher                                                                                  Health service access for people living homeless                                            Charles Sturt University, Australia

-New Online Course by Dr. Ray Middleton is now available to train staff on Pretreatment. The new workbook entitled, Pretreatment In Action and the online video course in tandem provide the grounding needed to support trauma informed practice in homeless outreach and housing first settings.  Check out this introductory video:

-2019 National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) Webinar on Homeless Outreach and Pretreatment

-Here’s the latest Interview: Jay S. Levy and Matt Bennett discuss  Pre-Treatment & Homelessness on Trauma Informed Lens Podcast 

Homeless Narratives, Housing First, and Pretreatment is now available as a 4 Book Series featured on Amazon

Thus far more than 33% of book related profits ($5157) have been given to national (U.S.) charities that support the goal and ideal of ending homelessness.  Please see Donations page for more details

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness has been added to the student reading list for the module on Homeless and Inclusion Health delivered at the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London.

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness features multiple contributors from both the US and UK. It provides valuable lessons and insights for those engaging people with complex trauma and multiple needs.

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reviews:  See Reviews and Blurbs  

 

             

Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Audiobook cover of Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First

Jay S. Levy’s Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First is now available as an audiobook at Audible.com!   You can get this book for FREE if you sign up for an Audible.com monthly subscription or purchase it as a one-time book and pay $19.95.  It is also available as an Apple iTunes audiobook.

 

 

Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned  by Jay S. Levy

                                                               

An innovative and timely educational resource that features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, “Ronald’s Narrative: The Original Housing First”, and an interview that was originally featured in Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing.

 

 

 

Pretreatment, Psychologically Informed Environments, and Housing First

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The following Video reviews the history of Housing First in conjunction with the Evolution of Vulnerability Assessment Tools and the need for Trauma Informed Care. Pretreatment Principles are also presented as a means of modeling Person-Centered Work, while engaging people with significant histories of homelessness, trauma, and loss in an effort to complete vulnerability assessments. 

 News and Updates:

-3 Working Models to Enhance Engagement and Dialogue can be found via the Ways of Helping page – HERE

-Check out our new Guest’s Post page on Addiction and Harm Reduction Strategies

-Here’s the latest Interview: Jay S. Levy and Matt Bennett discuss  Pre-Treatment & Homelessness on Trauma Informed Lens Podcast 

Homeless Narratives, Housing First, and Pretreatment is now available as a 3 Book Series featured on Amazon

Available separately via Barnes & NobleAmazon Kindle e-bookHardcover, and Paperback. All formats are also available worldwide via Book Depository and  Amazon-UK , Amazon CA, and other outlets-

Or order paperbacks directly from the publisher Here – Save 20% and get FREE Shipping when you use coupon code HELPHOMELESS 

Thus far more than 33% of book related profits ($4532) have been given to national (U.S.) charities that support the goal and ideal of ending homelessness.  Please see Donations page for more details

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness has been added to the student reading list for the module on Homeless and Inclusion Health delivered at the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London.

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reviews:  See Reviews and Blurbs for all reviews                                       

Jay Levy and colleagues’ “Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments” provides wonderful insight into the profound relationship-building that is the core of street outreach to the unsheltered homeless. Jay distills many decades of his own street experience, and by cross comparing his brilliant schema of Pretreatment with the British model of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), he reveals the underlying common processes of effective street engagement. Essentially, Jay shows us how to compassionately embrace the reality of those who fall within the underwater portion of the “pre-contemplative” iceberg of behavioral change. As a long-time practitioner of street medicine, I recommend this book to anyone who seeks that sacred place on the streets where healing begins.

Jim Withers, MD (Pittsburgh, PA)
Founder and Medical Director
Operation Safety Net and the Street Medicine Institute

In  Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness, Jay Levy and co-authors provide the conceptual tools, the hitherto “missing language”, needed by practitioners and policy makers working with excluded individuals. This well-written and insightful book outlines the psychologically informed approach that has been successfully used in the US, UK and other countries to re-integrate people who have experienced homelessness, severe mental illness and, frequently, other traumatic life events. This book has been informed by the authors’ practice and should come with a warning: it will revolutionise how you work – irreversibly and, undoubtedly, for the better. 

Clíona Cheallaigh, MB, MRCP Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead, Inclusion Health Service Pilot, St James’s Hospital, Dublin

Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Audiobook cover of Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First

Jay S. Levy’s Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First is now available as an audiobook at Audible.com!   You can get this book for FREE if you sign up for an Audible.com monthly subscription or purchase it as a one-time book and pay $19.95.  It is also available as an Apple iTunes audiobook.

 

 

Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned  by Jay S. Levy

                                                               

An innovative and timely educational resource that features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, “Ronald’s Narrative: The Original Housing First”, and an interview that was originally featured in Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing.

 

 

 

Pretreatment Guide now available as an Audiobook

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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Audiobook cover of Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First

Jay S. Levy’s Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First is now available as an audiobook at Audible.com!   You can get this book for FREE if you sign up for an Audible.com monthly subscription or purchase it as a one-time book and pay $19.95.  It will also be available as an Apple iTunes audiobook by December 20th, 2019.

 

-National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) Webinar on Homeless Outreach and Pretreatment

~Celebrating the new book~  Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments

Now available via Barnes & NobleAmazon Kindle e-bookHardcover, and Paperback. All formats are also available worldwide via Book Depository and  Amazon-UK , Amazon CA, as well as other outlets-

Or order paperbacks directly from the publisher Here – Save 20% and get FREE Shipping when you use coupon code HELPHOMELESS 

 Transatlantic Dialogues on Trauma and Homelessness

Our hope is to share and encourage transatlantic dialogues on homelessness that includes our narratives, challenges and successes in order to promote mutual learning and communication, as well as a more informed practice.

We have crossed the cultural divide in our work with colleagues at various conferences (e.g. International Street Medicine Symposium), sharing insights from around the globe. Of course this is not limited just to conferences, as cross-cultural perspectives on homelessness flow via journal articles, books, University coursework, staff trainings, and easily accessible podcasts, as well as through a variety of websites such as the PIElink that offers interviews and library materials on transatlantic homelessness issues.  In fact, I recently taught the first graduate studies course on PIE and Pretreatment, utilizing multi-media resources from PIE-Link, with college students in the US. These forums, as well as the exchange programs between the US and UK, provide the opportunities to share insights from PIE and Trauma Informed Care approaches to homelessness.

Robin Johnson, the founder of PIE, developed a dedicated section on Transatlantic Dialogues that can be found via PIELink.  Check out the following menu items that Robin has highlighted for further exploration:

The Transatlantic Exchange Programme

A Two-Way Trade

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness- Including a Transatlantic Homelessness Glossary

PIEs and HF in Europe

American PIE

Reflections on Homeless Outreach & Housing First

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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults (paperback/e-book) is now available

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Order it today via Barnes & Noble ~ Nook E-book or Amazon ~ Kindle E-book  -Paperback, hardcover, and E-book editions are available worldwide via Books Depository and other outlets-

“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.” 
-Michael Stoops, National Coalition for the Homeless– USA

Outreach clinicians, social workers, case managers, and concerned community members are provided with a pretreatment guide for helping homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person’s journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The inter-relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands on practice. Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First shares 5 intricate stories from the field to elucidate effective ways of helping, while demonstrating how the most vulnerable among us can overcome trauma and homelessness.

Check out an excerpt from Pretreatment Guide

  • The UK’s Housing, Care and Support Journal vol 17, no 4 – (November 2014 issue) reviews Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First and discusses its merits – Reviews & Blurbs features the UK Journal review by Lynn Vickery, among others

Thus far more than 33% of book related profits ($2872) have been given to national (U.S.) charities that support the goal and ideal of ending homelessness.  Please see Donations page for more details

  • Northeast Public Radio Interview ~ Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
    “It looks to me like the bible for people who want to do this kind of work.”    –Dr. Alan Chartock  –Here’s the interview on WAMC Northeast Public Radio

                                        

The critically acclaimed book Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing is based on my many years of doing outreach counseling, advocacy, and developing housing alternatives for chronically homeless individuals throughout NYC, Boston, and Western MA.  Stories of survival, meaning making and overcoming are shared along with an approach for helping those who are most in need.

E-book, paperback, and hardcover versions are available here, as well as online via Barnes & NobleAmazon, and many other outlets.

This book (HNPP) was recommended by the following organizations:

ForeWord Digital Review
“Given the enormous and increasing budget cuts facing these historically tax-supported programs, this epidemic of homelessness forces us to care for one another in creative ways that are unprecedented in recent memory. For this pressing reason, Levy’s book presents a pretreatment model for action that is becoming necessary reading as narrative for improving policy, supervision, and outreach counseling services for the most vulnerable among us.”

-Pamela Harris Kaiser – ForeWord Review of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First

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~ We Support Human Rights, Freedom & Diversity ~

Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults (paperback/e-book) is now available

ptg_400

Order it today via Barnes & Noble ~ Nook E-book or Amazon ~ Kindle E-book

“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.” 
-Michael Stoops, National Coalition for the Homeless– USA

Outreach clinicians, social workers, case managers, and concerned community members are provided with a pretreatment guide for helping homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person’s journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The inter-relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands on practice. Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First shares 5 intricate stories from the field to elucidate effective ways of helping, while demonstrating how the most vulnerable among us can overcome trauma and homelessness.

  • Check out an excerpt from Pretreatment Guide
  • The UK’s Housing, Care and Support Journal vol 17, no 4 – (November 2014 issue) reviews Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First and discusses its merits – Reviews & Blurbs features the UK Journal review by Lynn Vickery, among others

Thus far more than 33% of book related profits ($2587) have been given to national (U.S.) charities that support the goal and ideal of ending homelessness.  Please see Donations page for more details

  • Northeast Public Radio Interview ~ Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
    “It looks to me like the bible for people who want to do this kind of work.”    –Dr. Alan Chartock  –Here’s the interview on WAMC Northeast Public Radio

                                        

The critically acclaimed book Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing is based on my many years of doing outreach counseling, advocacy, and developing housing alternatives for chronically homeless individuals throughout NYC, Boston, and Western MA.  Stories of survival, meaning making and overcoming are shared along with an approach for helping those who are most in need.

E-book, paperback, and hardcover versions are available here, as well as online via Barnes & NobleAmazon, and many other outlets.

This book (HNPP) was recommended by the following organizations:

ForeWord Digital Review
“Given the enormous and increasing budget cuts facing these historically tax-supported programs, this epidemic of homelessness forces us to care for one another in creative ways that are unprecedented in recent memory. For this pressing reason, Levy’s book presents a pretreatment model for action that is becoming necessary reading as narrative for improving policy, supervision, and outreach counseling services for the most vulnerable among us.”

-Pamela Harris Kaiser – ForeWord Review of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

Health Care for the Homeless  Review
Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War 2 veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority; Ben who claims to be a prophet disowned in his own country, crucified by the government and enslaved by poverty finds a bridge to the mainstream services and a path to housing through the common language of religious metaphors, including redemption and forgiveness; and Andrew who has been “mentally murdered” is helped to understand his own situation and gain disability benefits through the language of trauma; among others.

These stories are deftly interwoven with theory and practice as Levy constructs his developmental model of the engagement and pretreatment process. The outreach worker strives to understand the language and the culture of each homeless individual, builds a bridge to the mainstream services, and helps those providers to understand the special circumstances of these vulnerable people. Levy bears witness to the courage of these pilgrims who wander the streets of our cities, and his poignant book is a testament to the healing power of trusting and enduring relationships.

Jim O’Connell, MD – President and Street Physician for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.  Dr. O’Connell is nationally recognized as one of the preeminent experts on homelessness and health care.

A full listing of Jay S. Levy’s publications and more than 70 citations of his published work are now  available at google scholar.

 

 

Homeless Outreach and Housing First

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~Welcome~

New Publication
Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned  by Jay S. Levy is an innovative and timely educational resource.  This monograph (educational booklet) features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, a new story entitled “Ronald’s Narrative: The Original Housing First”, and an interview that was originally featured in Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing. These three documents provide a rich and fertile resource for learning, reflecting, and informing needed action that promotes high quality outreach services and housing stabilization for the most vulnerable among us.

                                                               

Homeless Outreach & Housing First (Kindle, Nook, and paperback versions) can be purchased here, as well as at Amazon and Barnes & Noble Websites.

The highly acclaimed book Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing is based on my many years of doing outreach counseling, advocacy, and developing housing alternatives for chronically homeless individuals throughout NYC, Boston, and Western MA.  Stories of survival, meaning making and overcoming are shared along with an approach for helping those who are most in need.

                                     

E-book, paperback, and hardcover versions are available here, as well as online via Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and many other outlets.

This book (HNPP) is recommended by the following organizations:

ForeWord Digital Review
“Given the enormous and increasing budget cuts facing these historically tax-supported programs, this epidemic of homelessness forces us to care for one another in creative ways that are unprecedented in recent memory. For this pressing reason, Levy’s book presents a pretreatment model for action that is becoming necessary reading as narrative for improving policy, supervision, and outreach counseling services for the most vulnerable among us.”

-Pamela Harris Kaiser – ForeWord Review of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

I’d like to thank my publisher, Loving Healing Press, for their expertise, support, and feedback.  Their website provides an array of interesting titles that include books on trauma, effective brief therapies, and real life stories at www.LHPress.com

 

Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

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The highly acclaimed book Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing is based on my many years of doing outreach counseling, advocacy, and developing housing alternatives for chronically homeless individuals throughout NYC, Boston, and Western MA.  Stories of survival, meaning making and overcoming are shared along with an approach for helping those who are most in need.

                                        

E-book, paperback, and hardcover versions are available here, as well as online via Barnes & NobleAmazon, and many other outlets.

This book (HNPP) is recommended by the following organizations:

ForeWord Digital Review
“Given the enormous and increasing budget cuts facing these historically tax-supported programs, this epidemic of homelessness forces us to care for one another in creative ways that are unprecedented in recent memory. For this pressing reason, Levy’s book presents a pretreatment model for action that is becoming necessary reading as narrative for improving policy, supervision, and outreach counseling services for the most vulnerable among us.”

-Pamela Harris Kaiser – ForeWord Review of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

Northeast Public Radio Interview
“It looks to me like the bible for people who want to do this kind of work.”  Dr. Alan Chartock-WAMC

Here’s the interview on WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Health Care for the Homeless  Review
Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War 2 veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority; Ben who claims to be a prophet disowned in his own country, crucified by the government and enslaved by poverty finds a bridge to the mainstream services and a path to housing through the common language of religious metaphors, including redemption and forgiveness; and Andrew who has been “mentally murdered” is helped to understand his own situation and gain disability benefits through the language of trauma; among others.

These stories are deftly interwoven with theory and practice as Levy constructs his developmental model of the engagement and pretreatment process. The outreach worker strives to understand the language and the culture of each homeless individual, builds a bridge to the mainstream services, and helps those providers to understand the special circumstances of these vulnerable people. Levy bears witness to the courage of these pilgrims who wander the streets of our cities, and his poignant book is a testament to the healing power of trusting and enduring relationships.

Jim O’Connell, MD – President and Street Physician for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.  Dr. O’Connell is nationally recognized as one of the preeminent experts on homelessness and health care.

I’d like to thank my publisher, Loving Healing Press, for their expertise, support, and feedback.  Their website provides an array of interesting titles that include books on trauma, effective brief therapies, and real life stories at www.LHPress.com

 

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