Earn .5 CE Hour
Slides
Session summary: The Total Wellness Program provides health and wellness services to residents in four transitional supportive housing residences in New York City. Residents are formerly homeless adults with diagnoses of serious mental illnesses in addition to complex interrelated health and substance use disorders. The program aims to improve health literacy and health outcomes through the provision of medication management, health education and nutrition, and fitness groups. Additionally, the program strives to reduce reliance on emergency medical services by connecting residents with primary, specialty, behavioral health and urgent care services.
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Primary Speaker(s)
Anne Hanford, MPH CHES
Total Wellness Project Coordinator
Urban Pathways
New York, New York, United States
Nancy Southwell, MSW
Deputy Executive Director
Urban Pathways
New York, New York, United States
Slides
Session summary: The Total Wellness Program provides health and wellness services to residents in four transitional supportive housing residences in New York City. Residents are formerly homeless adults with diagnoses of serious mental illnesses in addition to complex interrelated health and substance use disorders. The program aims to improve health literacy and health outcomes through the provision of medication management, health education and nutrition, and fitness groups. Additionally, the program strives to reduce reliance on emergency medical services by connecting residents with primary, specialty, behavioral health and urgent care services.
Learning Objectives:
- Better understand the barriers to engagement of formerly homeless individuals with mental illness in wellness programming.
- Adopt strategies for redirecting frequent users of Emergency Departments to preventive health care systems.
- Develop outcome measures relevant to their program goals.
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