Homeless Services

Having worked in a variety of facilities and programs in the San Gabriel valley area including inpatient psych hospitals, community mental health clinics, outpatient crisis stabilization unit, psychiatric mobile response, ACT and AB2034 programs, we have acquired an intimate understanding of the needs of the chronically homeless, particularly the mentally ill, in San Gabriel valley.  Asked recently on what we see as the needs of the homeless in the San Gabriel valley, we offered the following:

The number of homeless individuals and families is rising.  The number of individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless is rising.  The machine with which to respond to these geometrically increasing numbers is broken.  In their desperate attempts to fix the machine, hard-working, well-intentioned agencies frantically reinvent their various wheels resulting in a lack of consistency in service philosophy and service providers in the San Gabriel Valley.  There is currently little uniformity in service delivery.  As the agencies struggle they become increasingly isolated.  And the numbers of homeless individuals and homeless families steadily rises.

Odin and Associates is prepared to provide consultation and training services in the following areas to enhance and strengthen program efficacy and staff skills:

• Mental Health Treatment
• Addiction Treatment
• Services for transitional age youth and older adults
• Screening and services
• Understanding the culture of homelessness
• Crisis Intervention
• Case Management Delivery
• Urgent care for mental disorders
• Psychiatric diagnosis
• Cultural competency
• Hospital Discharge Planning
• Responses to special needs populations including:  gay/lesbian/transgendered youth and adults – veterans and runaway youth
• Methods of decreasing NIMBYism

We are prepared to provide consultation to organizations in direct service delivery, program design and implementation, and clinical supervision. 

QUESTIONS?
Ask ODIN at 818.240.1819 or via email at askODIN@odinassociates.com.