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Program description

The intervention provided adults without housing two drop-in centers with general health services, such as daytime shelter, food, clothing, showers, and recreational activities to improve housing, income, and well-being. This evaluation directly compared Drop-in Center to a separate intervention, Outpatient Treatment, in order to better understand which of the two interventions might be more effective; Drop-in center featured two drop-in centers featuring daytime shelter, food, clothing, showers, and referrals to social services from on-site workers.

Evaluation

Drop-In Center (as compared to Outpatient Treatment) was tested in 1 study that included people who have/had the following characteristics: Homelessness, Mental illness.

Effect on long-term earnings

Pathways has no evidence to assess support for this intervention on long-term earnings. This means that there were no moderate- or high-quality studies of the effect of this intervention on long-term earnings.

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Summary

Adults without housing were assigned to one of two drop-in centers (one exclusive to women, one for both genders). Drop-in centers provided daytime shelter, food, clothing, showers, recreational activities, and referrals to social services from on-site social workers. The service population included adults with a mental illness who were also experiencing homelessness. This intervention was implemented in St. Louis, Missouri. The intervention lasted 12 months.

The effectiveness of Drop-In Center when compared to Outpatient Treatment indicates the effect of being referred to a set of services that includes those unique to Drop-In Center, or how much better the offer of Drop-In Center meets participants’ needs than the offer of Outpatient Treatment. In contrast to Drop-In Center, Outpatient treatment provided traditional outpatient treatment from a state mental health clinic. This study also examined the effectiveness of the Continuous Treatment Team.

28647.01R-Drop-In Center Compared with Outpatient Treatment

Populations and employment barriers: Homelessness, Mental illness

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Primary service

Supportive services

Intervention services

Health services (Physical health services), Supportive services

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Setting(s)

Urban only

Year evaluation began

1988

Implementing organization(s)Missouri Department of Mental Health and public daytime drop-in centers in St. Louis

Studies of this intervention

Study quality rating	Study counts per rating
Low	1

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