This book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. 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 five detailed case studies from the field to elucidate effective ways of helping and to demo...

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 the...

"Jay and Louise Levy and their co-authors have distilled years of diverse experience serving people with complex psychological and physical needs into a much-needed roadmap for providers. This book clearly outlines working principles that guide practitioners in the art of building authentic and effective working partnerships with people experiencing homelessness and other traumas, while minimizing re-traumatization and creating psychological safety. Carefully chosen case studies beautifull...

On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless peopleresiding in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: OldMan Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system andregards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority;Ben who claims to be a prophet disowned in his own country, crucifiedby the government and enslaved by poverty finds a bridge tothe mainstream ser...

In an attempt to abolish prostitution, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex in 1999, while simultaneously decriminalising its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. What has come to be referred to as ‘the Swedish model’ has been enormously influential, and has since been adopted and proposed by other countries. This book establishes the outcomes of this law – and the law’s justifying narra...

This book explores the outcomes of Sweden’s aim to create a ‘drug-free society’ on the lived realities, health, and welfare of people who use drugs, and on the dynamics of Swedish drug use. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, including extensive interview testimony and participant observation from years of fieldwork conducted in Sweden, the book debunks the widely-believed myth that Sweden is a progressive, liberal, inclusive state. In contrast to its liberal reputation, Sweden has crim...

Some love stories start after I do, and mine is certainly one of them.ViennaI'm a damsel in distress without health insurance and an upcoming surgery.Zane is my billionaire knight in a three-piece suit, an affectionate smile, and a stuttering voice.When I run out of all options, he proposes a gentleman's offer, generous and beautiful, exactly like him.We get into a marriage of convenience until my life is back to nor...

We weren't just opposites. We were at extreme ends, living completely different lives.While our CEO dressed in suits, mesmerizes everyone with his charm, I'm the quirky, geeky data scientist with precise breakfast habits, baggy flannel shirts, and red canvas shoes. Yet, he thinks we're good together.He offers me his friendship and shows me a life I am too scared to see.But we don't stop there.He shows me love… the sweet kind and the sexy one...

Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New InsightsThis groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.Authors focus on understanding and applying the precepts of Pretreatment and "Psychologically Informed Environments," as well as effective ways to promote productive...

From the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment PathwaysJay S. Levy brings us a new educationalresource entitled Homeless Outreach & Housing First: LessonsLearned. This monograph features three written works onhomelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, andquality of life considerations, a new story entitled "Ronald’sNarrative: The Original Housing First", and an interview thatwas originally featured in Recovering The Self: A Journal of...

While the residents of Connecticut and Massachusetts enjoy a plethora of hiking trails to explore, they may not be familiar with the rich indigenous history of the lands these trails traverse. Numerous tribes, including the the Quinnipiac, Wangunk, Tunxis, Massacoe, Woronocco, Agawam, Nipmuc, Nonotuck, Pocumtuck, and Abenaki, inhabited these lands for hundreds of years. Hiking Indigenous Lands of Connecticut and Massachusetts will guide readers along 40 hikes in both states, with ...