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PhD, Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work
MSW, Boston College School of Social Work
BSW, Eastern New Mexico University

Serious mental illness, substance use, housing stability, homelessness

Yeqing Yuan is a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Dr. Yuan’s research focuses on understanding and improving housing stability as a means to improve mental health and substance use outcomes. Her dissertation research, funded by National Association of Social Work Foundation, used a community-engaged, multi-method approach to develop a novel conceptual framework of subjective housing stability among individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. This framework expands the conventional understanding of housing stability to capture the experiential dimension of the construct. In her postdoctoral training, Dr. Yuan is further examining the experiential dimension of housing stability by focusing on loneliness among older adults experiencing recent homelessness. Her research aims to develop and implement an enhanced supportive housing services model relevant to various organizational contexts to improve behavioral health (i.e., mental health and substance use) and well-being outcomes. Dr. Yuan’s research program is informed and driven by her clinical social work experience providing behavioral health care to individuals with serious mental illness and substance use problems experiencing homelessness.

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