Describe the U.S. Housing First initiative and how it helps Americans


Housing First is an approach to ending homelessness that centers on providing people experiencing homelessness with housing as quickly as possible and then providing services as needed. Housing First differs from traditional approaches that require sobriety or employment before housing is offered/rewarded. The approach reflects a paradigm shift -- put people in safe housing, provide basic necessities, reduce stress levels, and then approach health and health care behaviors. Housing First initiatives involve a system redesign that requires social, health care, legal, law enforcement, government, and funding agencies to collaborate. Twelve metropolitan areas that have implemented a housing first model have measured decreased rates of homelessness.?

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Her nurse verifies the collection date and time as correct. She explains the specimen was missed by the courier on Friday but she refrigerated it until the next scheduled pickup on Monday morning. You will A) add a phenylethyl alcohol agar in addition to the routine media. B) request a recollect. C) process the specimen as received. D) centrifuge the specimen and process it.

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