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Webinar – Providing Reasonable Accommodations to Employees with Disabilities Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EDT The NCHV NVTAC is hosting the webinar "Providing Reasonable Accomodations to Employees with Disabilities" on Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Job accommodations are important for the successful employment of individuals with disabilities, but for those with traumatic brain injury and mental health impairments such as post-traumatic stress disorder, accommodations are essential. Knowing how, when and why it might be necessary to disclose a disability is the first and often most difficult part of the accommodation process. This webcast will provide information on the disclosure of disabilities in the workplace and common accommodations that might be needed. Real-life accommodation situations and solutions will be interspersed throughout the session. Melanie W...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Upcoming: Housing First for People Experiencing Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Webinar - July 9, 2015 - 3 PM EDT Date : Thursday, July 9, 2015 Time : 3:00-4:30 PM EDT Hosted By : The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Housing First is an effective intervention that ends and prevents homelessness for individuals with severe mental illness and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. By providing permanent, independent housing without prerequisites for s...

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Jordan McClellan gets help making lunch from daughter Kyra Brooks in their apartment in Southeast Washington, D.C. McClellan has been fighting homelessness for most of her adult life, living in family shelters and transitional housing until she was moved into the rapid rehousing program. Lexey Swall/GRAIN for NPR More than 150,000 U.S. families are homeless each year. The number has been going down, in part because of a program known as  rapid rehousing , which quickly moves families out of shelters and into homes. But new research by the Obama administration finds that for many families, rapid rehousing is only a temporary fix. It seemed like a good idea back in 2009 — when the recession had pushed thousands of families into homelessness. Rather than stay in shelters, families would get rental assistance for a few months — maybe a year — until they could get back on their feet. "What rapid rehousing did is say from the moment a family walks in, how can we get you ...