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Conard House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the SoMa arts district of San Francisco, working to support adults living with serious mental health and medical conditions. The organization's restated mission is "to empower people who live and work on the margins of society." 〔(), Conard House web site〕 Resources in support of this mission include supportive housing, case management, psychiatric rehabilitation, harm reduction, supported employment, money management and computer technology training. Together, these resources are generally referred to as community supported self-management. == History == Conard House was founded in 1960 by Elaine Mikels (1921-2004), who, with her mentor, Conard Rheiner, believed that people learning to live with, or recovering from, mental illness needed not only housing appropriate for their needs but additional outpatient therapeutic, social rehabilitation support and long-term stability in order to reintegrate into the local community. () With the opening of Jackson Street in 1960, Conard House assumed a leadership position in the deinstitutionalization movement in the United States with one of the first halfway houses in California, and nationally, for patients discharged from state mental institutions, in this case Napa State Hospital. These halfway houses became the early model for newer federal supportive housing designs, such as Housing First, to address chronic homelessness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Conard House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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