Your input and experience matters!

We are conducting this survey to gather crucial feedback from young adults and individuals with lived experience, professionals, and key stakeholders, which is essential for the design and implementation of the Bridge Return to Community Houses. Your insights will help us create supportive and effective housing and recovery solutions tailored to meet the needs of unaccompanied young adults experiencing homelessness who are transitioning from substance use disorder and or mental health inpatient care back into their communities. Your input and experience matters!

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* 1. Personal Experience: Barriers to Treatment
Understanding the specific challenges faced by individuals when seeking and completing treatment helps us identify and address gaps in the current behavioral health system.

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* 2. Clean and Sober Environment & Terminology
In talking to many youth and young adults with lived experience, they stressed the importance of having a clean and sober environment to live in for a few months while transitioning back into their lives after inpatient care. We want to understand your views on this and the terminology used.

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Do you agree that maintaining a clean and sober environment for three months post-inpatient treatment is important for successful recovery?
Do you use the terminology Clean and/or Sober?

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* 3. Reasons for Early Exits
Understanding perspectives for early exit policies helps us balance accountability with compassion and support in the development of the Bridge Return to Community Housing programs.

  Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Do you think an individual should be exited from the program if they relapse while in the Bridge Housing program?

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* 4. Beneficial Services for Young Adults in the Housing Program
To ensure the Bridge Housing program effectively meets the diverse needs of young adults and promotes their overall well-being and successful reintegration, we have identified several key voluntary services. Peer Support
Behavioral Health Support
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Housing Support
Flexible Funding Opportunities
Please review the list above and let us know if there are any additional services you believe are important but not included.

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* 5. Areas for Success in Return to Community Plan
Gathering input on critical elements of a return to community plan helps us design comprehensive support strategies for individuals transitioning from behavioral health inpatient care into stable housing.

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* 6. Age Demographic Information:
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* 7. Name & Pronoun Demographic Information:
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* 8. Lived Experience Demographic Information:
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 What category (or categories) best describe your lived experience?

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* 9. Location Demographic Information:
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What is your geographic location?

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