Sam Tsemberis

Sam Tsemberis
Sam Tsemberis in 2024
Born	(1949-03-11) March 11, 1949 (age 76) Skoúra, Greece
Education	New York University PhD, Clinical and Community Psychology
Occupation(s)	Clinical and Community Psychologist | Clinical Community psychology
Website	https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org/

Sam J. Tsemberis (born March 11, 1949, in Skoúra, Lakonia, Greece) is a Greek Canadian psychologist and homelessness activist. He founded the Housing First program and the Pathways to Housing organization, and he serves as CEO of the Pathways Housing First Institute.^[1] He is also an Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[2]

Tsemberis founded the Pathways to Housing in 1992 to support the homeless population in New York in before expanding to other states.^[1] He co-authored the book Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Changing Systems and Transforming Lives with Deborah Padgett and Benjamin Henwood in 2016.^{[citation needed]} Tsemberis was listed in the 2024 Time 100 list of influential people for the Housing First model.^[3]

Footnotes

1. "Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness", Washington Post (retrieved May 18, 2015)
2. "Sam Tsemberis". UCLA. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
3. "Evidence-Based Treatment for Drug Dependence at the United States Veterans Administration Department of Veterans Affairs". Human Rights Watch. June 30, 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2019.

References

• Goering P, Veidhuizen S, Watson A, Adair C, Kopp B, Latimer E, Angela L (2012). At Home/Chez Soi interim report: Mental Health Commission of Canada (Report).
• Gulcur L, Stefancic A, Shinn M, Tsemberis S, Fischer SN (2003). "Housing, hospitalization, and cost outcomes for homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in continuum of care and housing first programmes". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 13 (2): 171–186. doi:10.1002/casp.723. ISSN 1099-1298. S2CID 57148586.
• Nelson G, Macnaughton E, Goering P, Dudley M, O'Campo P, Patterson M, Piat M, Prévost N, Strehlau V, Vallée C (2013). "Planning a multi–site, complex intervention for homeless people with mental illness: The relationships between the national team and local sites in Canada's At Home/Chez Soi project". American Journal of Community Psychology. 51 (3–4): 347–358. doi:10.1007/s10464-012-9554-2. PMID 22965695.
• Tsemberis S (1999). "From streets to homes: An innovative approach to supported housing for homeless adults with psychiatric disabilities". Journal of Community Psychology. 27 (2): 225–241. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6629(199903)27:2<225::AID-JCOP9>3.0.CO;2-Y.
• Tsemberis S (2010). Housing first: The pathways model to end homelessness for people with mental illness and addiction. Center City, MN: Hazelden.
• Tsemberis S, Moran LL, Shinn M, Asmussen SM, Shern DL (2003). "Consumer preference programs for homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities: A drop-in center and a supported housing program". American Journal of Community Psychology. 32 (3–4): 305–317. doi:10.1023/B:AJCP.0000004750.66957.bf. PMID 14703266.