Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses and/or Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders

November 2003 Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses and/or Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders More than a decade after the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness called it "unacceptable" for people with serious mental illnesses to live in unsafe and threatening conditions, more than 630,000 individuals are homeless in this country on any given night (Burt et al., 2001). About half of all adults who are homeless have substance use disorders, and many have co-occurring mental illnesses, as well. Yet, the outlook is far from bleak. Federal demonstration . . .