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Webinar Description:
The California legislature recently approved controversial new laws that are set to compel unhoused people into non-voluntary mental health treatment as a precursor to housing, through “CARE” courts. Governor Newsom says the approach will “empower individuals suffering from untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.” Civil liberty and disability groups contest that this undoes decades of progress within the psychiatric rights movement. ISPS-US invited Eve Garrow, Homelessness Policy Analyst and Advocate from ACLU Southern California, and Deborah K. Padgett, Professor at NYU Silver, researcher, and author of Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Changing Systems and Transforming Lives to discuss the rise of such policies, what the research actually says about best practices in supporting unhoused populations, and we can do to advocate or work towards human-rights orientated housing systems.
About the Presenters:
Deborah K. Padgett, PhD
Dr. Deborah K. Padgett has a doctorate in anthropology and is a professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. Dr. Padgett is known for her expertise in qualitative / mixed methods and is the author of two textbooks in this area. She is an expert on the ‘housing first’ approach to ending homelessness and is first author of a book on housing first published by Oxford University Press (2016). She has published extensively on homelessness and mental health services research in journal articles. Dr. Padgett received two all-qualitative R01 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health from 2004 to 2016, both of which examined mental health and substance abuse recovery among formerly homeless persons living in supportive housing. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and former President of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Eve Garrow, PhD
Eve Garrow joined the ACLU of Southern California in December 2014. She is the Policy Analyst and Advocate for the Dignity for All Project. Her work includes research, policy analysis, public education, and advocacy to promote policy changes that will secure the human right to housing, end housing displacement and discrimination against people who are unhoused and increase the human dignity of all people. Her work lies at the intersection of housing justice, economic justice, racial justice, gender justice, and disability rights. Prior to joining the ACLU, Eve was an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, where she engaged in research and policy analysis on the implementation of social policies that target marginalized populations, including people who are unhoused. Eve received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara and her MSW and PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California Los Angeles.
