Articles for the Topic "Service Models: Concepts and Implementation"

A Guide to Reentry Supportive Housing: A Three-Part Primer for Non-Profit Supportive Housing Developers, Social Service Providers, and Their Government Partners

2009-01-22T11:13:09

This guide is intended to furnish supportive housing providers with a basic introduction to community reentry supportive housing; that is, supportive housing targeted toward formerly incarcerated individuals or ex-offenders, including those who have special needs.

A Housing Toolkit: Information To Help the Public Mental Health Community Meet the Housing Needs of People With Mental Illness

2007-06-04T03:09:08

This toolkit provides guidance and hands-on information to public mental health agencies, housing officials, service providers, and families and individuals with mental illnesses who are interested in expanding housing opportunities for people with mental illnesses. The fifteen fact sheets provide detailed information about resources available to finance the creation of new housing and new ways to think about housing options. In addition there are four background briefs to provide a framework for assessing housing needs and housing solutions. These materials are organized so that they can be reviewed as a whole for overall knowledge about housing or individually for information about specific funding programs or housing types. (Authors)

Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons With Serious Mental Illnesses And/or Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders

2007-07-06T02:18:22

This Blueprint for Change is divided into eight chapters that comprise four sections: before you begin; plan for services; organize services; and sustain services. These sections reflect four action steps that states and communities can take to prevent or end homelessness among people with serious mental illnesses, including those with co-occurring substance use disorders. Each chapter presents current knowledge and specific strategies designed to carry out the action steps. (SAMHSA)

Career Mapping for Disadvantaged Job Seekers

2010-06-22T08:47:09

This paper explains Career Mapping, an alternative method of assessment and goal development intended to augment the core services provided through One-Stop Career Centers. It is a customized employment method derived from an understanding of the impact of disability and homelessness on employment. The authors state that this intervention can be a gateway to competitive employment by increasing customer readiness to benefit from Workforce Investment Act (WIA) intensive or training services.

Corporation for Supportive Housing, Supportive Housing Financing Guide

2009-01-22T12:56:27

This Web-based guide provides details on all major Federal supportive housing financing sources, including program descriptions and links to the regulations, resources on everything from how to use Medicaid in supportive housing to understanding Low Income Housing Tax Credits, links to current funding opportunities, and details on relevant State programs.

Family Matters: A Guide to Developing Family Supportive Housing

2007-11-06T04:46:58

This manual will assist you with the basics of creating a supportive housing program for homeless families. It consists of the following sections: -Chapter One: The Profile of Homelessness Among Families -Chapter Two: Gathering Information and Defining Your Mission -Chapter Three: Planning for Services in Supportive Housing -Chapter Four: The Housing Development Process -Chapter Five: Sponsor or Tenant-Leased Housing -Chapter Six: Supportive Housing Property Management -Chapter Seven: Implementing Your Supportive Services Plan -Chapter Eight: Thinking Beyond “NIMBY” – Building Community Support Operating a supportive housing program requires cooperation among several organizations with expertise in housing and service provision. Regardless of your experience in these areas, this manual will give you an understanding of how the service and housing functions work within supportive housing and will help you to pull together the multifaceted team that can create high-quality housing and services for families. (Author)

Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders: A Guide to Effective Practice

2010-06-09T08:23:12

This comprehensive, clinical guidebook presents guidelines—and provides many of the needed materials—for developing integrated treatment programs, performing assessments, and implementing a wide range of interventions. Also addressed are residential and other housing services, involuntary interventions, vocational rehabilitation, and psychopharmacology. The emphasis is on workable ways to combine psychiatric and substance abuse services into a cohesive, unitary system of care.

SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network: 2012 Webinar Series

2012-06-14T04:59:33

This resource includes information about webinars presented by SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network's 2012 Webinar Series, and includes information on how to request webinar presentation materials.

Ten Essentials Toolkit for Ending Homelessness

2007-09-06T03:14:07

The National Alliance to End Homelessness has created the this toolkit as a guide to help communities identify the minimum requirements for an effective permanent solution to prevent and end homelessness. (Authors)

Toolkit for Connecting Supportive Housing Tenants to Employment

2009-01-22T12:42:54

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide access to tools, case studies, evaluations, sample documents, and other useful resources for connecting supportive housing tenants to employment. The goal of this resource is to help supportive housing organizations, workforce partners, and employers address key challenges in the planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of employment-related services and programs.

Toolkit for Ending Long-Term Homelessness

2007-04-16T10:47:19

This Toolkit, developed by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, includes profiles of systems-wide strategies for working with this population, photo tours of supportive housing projects from around the country, sample documents from supportive housing service teams and property managers, and a listing of key additional tools. (Authors).