Articles for the Topic "Housing First"

Corporation for Supportive Housing

2006-12-28T06:59:44

The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is a national, nonprofit organization that helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. CSH advances its mission by providing high-quality advice and development expertise, by making loans and grants to supportive housing sponsors, by strengthening the supportive housing industry, and by reforming public policy to make it easier to create and operate supportive housing. CSH delivers its core services primarily through nine program hubs: California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Southern New England (Connecticut, Rhode Island), and Washington, DC. CSH also operates targeted initiatives in Kentucky, Maine, Oregon, and Washington, and reaches many other communities that request assistance through its National Program teams. (Corporation for Supportive Housing)

Denver Housing First Collaborative: Cost Benefit Analysis and Program Outcomes Report

2009-05-28T03:59:10

The Denver Housing First Collaborative (DHFC) is a collaboration between the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), Denver Department of Human Services (DDHS), Denver Health (DHHA), Arapahoe House, the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) and the Denver VA Medical Center. Together the collaborative combines a Housing First approach with an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency providers to assist chronically homeless individuals with disabilities to obtain permanent housing, support services and eligible benefits to help them gain the stability needed to end their homelessness. (Author).

Housing First: 10 Tips for Success

2008-10-15T05:19:35

Housing First Program Director Jacob Lile, of the Shelter Network in San Mateo County, offers his 10 best tips for implementing Housing First.

Housing First: Ending Family Homelessness

2009-05-28T02:55:10

This article gives a history of the Housing First evidence based practice and provides links to other resources for further information.

National Alliance to End Homelessness Community Snapshot: Wichita, KS

2009-12-29T11:19:02

The Alliance has released another community profile in its Community Snapshot series, which profiles effective strategies, programs, and innovations in preventing and ending homelessness from communities across the country. (Author)

National Alliance to End Homelessness: Housing First Topic Page

2009-05-28T03:07:14

The National Alliance to End Homelessness coordinates a network dedicated to Housing First. The purpose of the Housing First Network is to facilitate communication among those interested in developing, implementing, understanding, or refining a Housing First approach in their community. (Author)

Streets to Homes, Housing First in Toronto, Ontario: Getting Chronically Homeless People Back Into Housing

2009-05-12T03:26:40

Streets to Homes is a Housing First program that has been operated by the city of Toronto since 2005. This strategy targets unsheltered homeless people, and provides them with government subsidized permanent housing with follow-up supports. To date, approximately 1,500 people have moved directly from living on the street into permanent housing units, and 87 percent have remained housed. Program administrators attribute the effectiveness of this program to the cooperation of community agencies and the coordination of the Shelter, Support, and Housing Administration of the City of Toronto. (Author)

The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness

2007-10-15T10:29:47

This report presents the findings from an exploratory study of the Housing First approach of providing permanent supportive housing to single, homeless adults with mental illness and co-occurring substance-related disorders. In recent years, Congress and the leadership of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have encouraged the development of permanent housing for homeless people. Concurrently, there has been a shift toward committing a greater proportion of HUD McKinney-Vento Act funds toward housing as opposed to supportive services and an increase in attention toward the hardest-to-serve, chronically homeless population, a substantial number of whom are mentally ill. Because it addresses this population and its needs, the Housing First approach is currently experiencing increased attention as a method of serving this population consistent with the above-stated goals. (Authors)

What is Housing First?

2009-05-08T11:41:31

Housing First is an approach that centers on providing homeless people with housing quickly and then providing services as needed. What differentiates a Housing First approach from other strategies is that there is an immediate and primary focus on helping individuals and families quickly access and sustain permanent housing. This approach has the benefit of being consistent with what most people experiencing homelessness want and seek help to achieve. A Housing First approach rests on the belief that helping people access and sustain permanent, affordable housing should be the central goal of our work with people experiencing homelessness. By providing housing assistance, case management and supportive services responsive to individual or family needs (time-limited or long-term) after an individual or family is housed, communities can significantly reduce the time people experience homelessness and prevent further episodes of homelessness. A central tenet of the Housing First approach is that social services to enhance individual and family well-being can be more effective when people are in their own home.(Authors)