Rebecca Heller, LCSW

Journal articles about the intersection of supportive housing, older adults, and SMI

• Bazeghi, R...Heller, R. (2025). Identifying Risk Factors for Reduced Lifespan Among Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

• Fortuna, KL...M., Heller, R...(2024). Certified Older Adult Peer Support Specialist-Delivered Telephonic Self-Management Intervention in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population with Serious Mental Illness, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

• Fortuna, K. L., Rhee, T. G., Leininger, L. J., Ferron, J., Elwyn, G., Raue, P. J., Heller, R. (2023). Estimates of loneliness among racially and ethnically diverse adults with serious mental illness in NYC. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Fortuna, K. L., Heller, R., Crowe-Cumella, H., & Bohm, A. (2023). Estimates of gaps in supportive housing among racially and ethnically diverse older adults with serious mental illness in New York City. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

• Fortuna, K. L., Heller, R., Brundrett, A. A. (2023). Prevalence of internet access and technology use among racially and ethnically diverse older adults with serious mental illness residing in New York City. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Heller, R., Gresko, R., & James, M.C. (2021). Aging in Supportive Housing: A Case Study. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 32(2), 615-621.

• Heller, R. (2021, September 24). Psychiatry Online.

Other materials

• Part of Workgroup for New York State Master Plan for Aging (2025)

• In Acknowledgements of CSH's Aging and Thriving: A Call to Strengthen Supportive Housing (2024)

• Featured in Clean-outs as a strategy for community agencies to address hoarding (2024)

• Aging Services model in White, K. (n.d.). Innovative Hospital - Home Care - Mental Health Collaboration Models: A Primer (2023)

• International Social Science Review (2022)

• Behavioral Health News (2020 and 2019)

• WFUV Radio Interview (2019)

Select presentations

• • Association of Community Living Agencies in Mental Health (ACLAIMH) Conference, 2024
• • Annual Conference of the State Society on Aging of New York, 2024
• • CSH's Healthy Aging Academy, 2024
• • Association of Community Living Agencies in Mental Health (ACLAIMH) Conference, 2023
• • Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference (SHNNY), 2023
• • Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference (SHNNY), 2022
• • New York Presbyterian, Health and Housing, 2021
• • National Association of Social Workers (NASW), New York Chapter, 2021
• • Association of Community Living Agencies in Mental Health (ACLAIMH) Conference, 2019
• • Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference (SHNNY), 2018

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