ill homeless people who could be a danger to themselves or others and required hospitalization. As an employee of the New York City mental-health department, Mr. Tsemberis’s job was to figure out what ...

“Housing First came to be because there were people on the street that had mental illness and were unable to leave the streets on their own,” Dr. Sam Tsemberis, who now serves as the CEO of the ...

Homelessness is more visible than ever. The number of people experiencing homelessness has been on the rise for several years across the country, and close to home. Last year, volunteers counted over ...

UCLA professor of psychiatry and social sciences, founder of Pathways Housing First, pioneer/inventor of the Housing First model UCLA professor of psychiatry and social sciences, founder of Pathways ...