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  1. ACCESS/CMHC, 566 Whalley Ave., #6, 06511, New Haven, CT

    Michael Rowe Ph.D. (Project Director) & Debbie Fisk M.S.W. (Clinical Coordinator)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA

    Michael A. Hoge Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology)

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The authors are grateful to their colleagues who provided comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

This work was supported in part by a grant to the State of Connecticut from the federal Center for Mental Health Services.

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Rowe, M., Hoge, M.A. & Fisk, D. Critical issues in serving people who are homeless and mentally ill. Adm Policy Ment Health 23, 555–565 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02108691

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