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Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan 63 many as half of all people.72 Nationally, the differing approaches and separate histories of the mental health system and the substance use treatment and recovery systems have meant that people with co-occurring disorders have often been underserved. A SAMHSA study found that nationally more than half of adults with co-occurring disorders had received neither s~ecialty mental health treatment nor specialty substance use treatment in the past year (2002). 3 NOTE TO READER: Additional information about housing for people with mental illness and related issues can be found in the following chapters in this plan: Local and National Context for Planning, Context for Behavioral Health Care and Housing (p. 40) Housing Assistance Needs of People Who Are Homeless and/or Have Special Needs (p. 71) Please also see the following chapters in the Companion Materials for this plan: 4. Next Steps for the Behavioral Health Care System 9. Behavioral Health in Alameda County: Expanded Version 11. Consumer Focus Groups 12. Housing and Services Needs: Populations Working Groups 13. Housing Needs and Estimated Costs 16. Mental Health System Housing Report: Front Door Project 17. Glossary of Related Terms n Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, The Center for Mental Health Services, National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, "Get the Facts: Question #3, Why are so many people with serious mental illness homeless?" A vail able online: www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/facts/facts~question~3.asp (Accessed: July 1, 2004). 73 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, "The National Survey of Drug Use and Health Report: Adults with Co-Occurring Serious MentallIlness and a Substance Use Disorder," June 23,2004. Available online: www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/coOccurring/coOccurring.cfm (Accessed: July I, 2004).