The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CHPS) is a multidisciplinary effort to research homelessness and develop ways to prevent chronic homelessness among people with severe mental illness, who comprise about 25 percent of homeless adults 18 and older. The Center collaborates with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Mailman School of Public Health, and with many other departments and schools at Columbia University. Founded in October 2005 with funds from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Center is the nation’s only NIMH-funded research center for the development of new and more effective approaches to homelessness prevention. The Center brings together scientists from many disciplines and departments, including psychiatry, social work, economics, and urban planning. The Center is targeted to become a national resource for new methods of prevention and early intervention, providing models for service delivery nationwide as municipalities plan to implement the federal Interagency Council on Homelessness initiative to End Chronic Homelessness in Ten Years. Collaborators in this effort include researchers affiliated with Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and New York University, providers of homeless services in the greater New York City region, and the New York City Department of Homeless Services.
Community Research Group
The Community Research Group of New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University studies the health problems of cities. Its work has examined epidemics of inner city neighborhoods, the consequences of destruction of the built environment, and processes for creating just and beautiful cities for the 21st century. Principal investigators of CRG include: Robert Fullilove, Mindy Fullilove, Lourdes Hernandex-Cordero, Jennifer Stevens Madoff, Lesley Rennis-Green and Molly Rose Kaufman. |