This qualitative research project was designed to gain a rich understanding of service-user experience within this program, and to apply these impressions to a broader reflection concerning how to best serve the needs of homeless people living with severe mental illness.
It was conducted by some of the same researchers who conducted the two PRISM follow-up studies. They conduced in-depth inrterviews of 20 clients from the all-male PRISM- Welcome Hall Mission at program intake and departure berwen May 2018 and March 2019.
The multimodal mental health and social service approach used at PRISM stands in contrast to what most of the men have experienced during hospital inpatient experiences.
It is worth engaging in a deep read of this study to understand the benefit of a shelter-based intervention and how exactly it achieves its unique success in connecting severely mentally ill homeless persons to stable housing and psychiatric follow-up.