Authored by TAC Executive Director Kevin Martone and Senior Consultant Sherry Lerch, this is second in the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors’ 2017 series of ten briefs addressing the question: “What Is the Inpatient Bed Need if you Have a Best Practice Continuum of Care?” The paper discusses the importance of permanent supportive housing in serving people with serious mental illness in the community, and the role it can play in determining an area’s psychiatric inpatient bed capacity.

The Role of Permanent Supportive Housing in Determining Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Capacity