Textbook Talk: Dr. Van Yu on Housing First and the Role of Psychiatry in Supported Housing

Dr. Rob Gadomski and Dr. Van Yu discuss key takeaways from the Housing First and the Role of Psychiatry in Supported Housing chapter of the Textbook of Community Psychiatry and more! Timestamps: 00:10 Introductions 02:00 Supportive Housing and Housing First 19:25 Experience Working in Supportive Housing 25:30 Managing Boundaries as a Community Psychiatrist 33:15 Final Thoughts Purchase the Textbook of Community Psychiatry Created by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP). Free AACP Membership for Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows | Instagram | Twitter | Listener Survey | Follow, review, and share! Guest: Van Yu, MD is Chief Medical Officer of the Center Urban Community Services (CUCS) and its healthcare affiliate Janian Medical Care, which provides on-site psychiatric and primary care to people with lived experience of homelessness at outreach programs, drop-in centers, shelters, safe havens and supportive housing programs. Dr. Yu earned his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1995 and completed residency training in psychiatry in 1999, including serving as a chief resident, at the New York University Medical Center. After completing residency, Dr. Yu was an Attending Psychiatrist in the Bellevue Hospital Center Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) for two years before becoming Assistant Director from April 2001 to March 2003. He joined the Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless, the precursor of Janian Medical Care, as a Staff Psychiatrist in April 2003. He also served as Medical Director of the Manhattan Outreach Consortium from 2007 to 2013. Dr. Yu is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University School of Medicine where he has had a faculty appointment since 1998. Host: Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship in June 2022. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system. Editor: Zoe Wyse is a second-year medical student. Credit Attribution: Stock Media provided by StockAudios / Pond5