Date and Time
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July 18 2018 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Description
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The Waypoint Research Institute presents another installment in the free Waypoint Talks series with:
Housing First - The At Home/Chez Soi Project
Presented by David L. Streiner, PhD, C.Psych
July 18, 2018
1-3 p.m.
Waypoint Auditorium
The At Home/Chez Soi project was a five-year, pragmatic, multi-site randomized controlled field trial of a Housing First (HF) intervention for the homeless mentally ill. It was, and still remains, the largest study of its kind in the world. It was implemented in five cities across Canada – Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. In all, 2,148 participants received either treatment as usual or HF + Assertive Community Treatment for those with high needs or HF + Intensive Case Management for those with moderate needs. Each site also had a third, site-specific arm. Participants were assessed in person at baseline and every six months for two years; and also had briefer assessments half-way between these visits, either in person or by phone. Extensive quantitative and qualitative data were collected regarding housing stability, health status, general functioning and community integration, quality of life, vocational status, as well as medical and justice system contacts. This talk will address some of the issues involved in implementing the trial and some of the key findings.
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Presenter Personal Statement
David L. Streiner
I was trained as a clinical psychologist and worked as one in teaching hospitals for the first 30 years of my career. In my first job, at McMaster University, I was both the chief psychologist at the main teaching hospital, as well as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry; and for the last 20 years there, was also a member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, one of the world’s foremost medical research departments, and the birthplace of evidence-based medicine. I retired for one day, and became the founding director of the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Assistant V.P., Research at the Baycrest Centre, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, where I also was a Full Professor. I retired again after 11 years, and now work one day a week at each of those universities.
I have written or edited 9 books, including Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials (which is now in its fourth edition) and Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use (now in its fifth edition and cited nearly 14,000 times). I have authored or co-authored over 400 articles, including a series of 28 papers on research methods for the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (which have published as A Guide to the Statistically Perplexed), and have been invited to write methodological papers for a number of medical journals, including the Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology, Chest, and the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. I am currently on the editorial boards of 11 journals.
I am a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Personality Assessment, and have won the Canadian Psychiatric Association / Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology’s Alexander Leighton Award for Psychiatric Epidemiology. My main interests are quality of life in people with various medical conditions, woodworking, scale development, woodworking, research design, woodworking, treatment of the homeless mentally ill, and woodworking.
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