National At Home/Chez Soi Final Report

In this report released April 3, 2014, the Mental Health Commission of Canada reported outcomes of a housing first program called “At Home/Chez Soi” for homeless adults with mental illness. The program began in 2008; the Canadian government invested $110 million for a five-year research demonstration project to generate data about effective approaches for homeless adults with serious mental illness. The Mental Health Commission of Canada and groups of stakeholders in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Moncton implemented At Home/Chez Soi as a randomized, controlled field trial of Housing First. The goal was to identify what works . . .