The goal of this webinar is to enhance understanding the varied homeless population, as well as factors contributing to the this crisis. Topics addressed will include issues related to being unhoused, the history of homelessness in America as well as its criminalization, psychiatric illness and substance use disorder and their impact on housing, lack of social support, and the housing availability crisis. Case managers and social workers need to face a multitude of issues to begin to chip away at the problems that keep people from finding a place they can call home. This webinar aims to clarify the salient issues affecting those who are unhoused. [Elective for Case Management Certificate Program]
To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify the primary issues that may be affecting the homeless population that they serve.
- Define the different types of homelessness (e.g., chronic, transitional, and episodic) and various strategies of support for each group.
- Describe hidden, or “root causes,†of homelessness and a path forward for individual clients within various systems.