Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining severe persistent mental illness : implications for knowledge, needs, and services / Denise Torres -- Innovative programs for consumers with psychiatric disabilities / Phyllis Solomon ... [et al.] -- Children, youth, and families : needs and issues / Heidi Arthur, Susan Bowler, and Nina Rose Fisher -- Model approaches for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance : systems of care and wraparound / Nina Rose Fischer -- Sexual minority and gender-variant youth : the heterogeneity of health-care needs / Maria Messina, Sel L. Hwahng, and Anthony Vavasis -- Sexual minority and gender-variant adults : resiliencies and vulnerabilities in health care / Maria Messina and Sel L. Hwahng -- Pathways' housing first : a consumer-driven approach to ending homelessness and promoting recovery / Sam Tsemberis and Ben Henwood -- Homeless veterans : the big picture and the New York experience / Henrietta Fishman -- Housing for older Americans / Kenneth A. Knapp and Charlotte Muller --

Behavioral health issues for older adults : substance abuse and psychiatric disability / Frank Guida and Steven A. Estrine -- Elder abuse : the hidden epidemic / Nora O'Brien-Suric and Judith Estrine -- Understanding the refugee experience of trauma / Andrea K. Blanch -- Innovative program approaches to refugee trauma / Andrea K. Blanch -- Intellectual and developmental disabilities / Jan L. Roth -- Disabled women and domestic violence : notes from the field / Paul Feuerstein -- Jail diversion models for people with mental illness / Charles Amrhein and Virginia Barber-Rioja -- Program evaluation with vulnerable populations / Nancy A. Hepler ... [et al.] -- Mental health meets new media : a powerful new portal for increased access to mental health services / Jill Wolski Ordonez and Michael Cheng -- Health literacy and human services delivery / Sandra A. Smith -- Transformative impact and initiatives of the mental health consumer/survivor movement / Harvey Rosenthal -- The future of managed behavioral health care / Ann Boughtin and C. Richard Orndoff.