by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Aug 16, 2013
Branch Chief’s Corner: A welcome message from Dr. Charlene Le Fauve, Chief, Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch (CHAB). Hello, I’m Charlene Le Fauve, and I’m the Director of the Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch of the Center for Substance Abuse...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Aug 16, 2013
Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this “family.” A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Aug 16, 2013
An estimated 85 percent of people labeled “mentally ill” are unemployed, and often viewed as incapable of working: hopeless, helpless, maybe dangerous besides. Working Like Crazy challenges these stereotypes. This is a fresh, engaging look at the struggles...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Aug 16, 2013
This revised and expanded second edition of Toward a Vision of Recovery traces Dr. William Anthony’s thoughts on recovery, beginning with a declaration in 1992 that recovery should be the guiding vision of the entire mental health field. (Authors) He follows...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 28, 2013
A new national report into homelessness shows at least 200,000 Canadians experience homelessness in any given year and at least 30,000 Canadians are homeless on any given night.
