Two randomized trials were funded by the same grant:
1. The Homeless Sector Trial assessed the effectiveness of CTI in improving housing and other outcomes in people from nine adult homeless shelters.
2. The Women’s Shelter Sector Trial assessed the effectiveness of CTI in improving quality of life in women from eight domestic violence shelters.
The Ruah CTI-IHSP program enrolled 121 people with severe mental illness and at risk for homelessness when they were discharged from mental health inpatient units in Perth. This was the first time that an agency’s electronic medical records were used for generating fidelity ratings.
This quasiexperimental study evaluated the effectiveness of Project Connect, a pilot program with 97 homeless men, who were frequent users of a psychiatric emergency room (CPEP) in New York City. The goal was to engage the men with outpatient treatment and other community supports in order to promote recovery and decrease subsequent use of the CPEP. This was the first CTI program to use peer specialists to deliver the intervention.
This award-winning project used three evidence-based practices (CTI, Seeking Safety, and Wellness-Self Management) with the aim of positively impacting sustainable housing placements for 143 homeless women with mental illness and chemical abuse histories after discharge from a shelter in Brooklyn, NY.
Following on the encouraging results of the first trial with men discharged from the shelter, this second randomized trial tested CTI with 150 previously homeless adults with serious mental illness following discharge from two psychiatric hospitals.
This randomized trial evaluated a program that combined the Housing First model of rapid re-housing with Family CTI among 228 single-parent homeless families, where the mothers had a mental health and/or substance abuse problem. It tested the program’s effectiveness in improving the residential stability and mental health of the mothers and children. Families were followed over a 15-month period.
The authors used a pre-post cohort design to compare two groups of homeless veterans with serious mental illness after discharge from eight VA medical centers across five states: 1) 278 veterans recruited before CTI was implemented; and 2) 206 veterans who were offered CTI.
This randomized trial of 135 veterans with serious mental illness assessed the effectiveness of a brief CTI intervention (B-CTI) in attaining a limited outcome, namely to increase outpatient visits during the first three months after discharge from psychiatric hospital.
This first randomized trial of the nine-month CTI model assessed its effectiveness in preventing homelessness among 96 men with serious mental disorder being placed into community housing from a large shelter in New York City. The men were followed up for 18 months.