Housing Stabilizations Services
We provide Housing Stabilization Services to help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing. Our purpose is to: Support an individual’s transition into housing, Increase long-term stability in housing in the community, and Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization.
Housing consultation
Services that assist a person in developing a housing focused person-centered plan, assist the person to access needed state plan services that support housing stability and provide referrals or information about to other needed services.
Housing transition
Helps people plan for, find and move to homes of their own in the community by: Developing an individualized housing plan & Identifying and assisting in resolving barriers to accessing housing.
Housing sustaining
Supports a person to maintain living in their own home in the community by: Prevention and early identification of behaviors that may jeopardize continued housing and assistance with the housing recertification processes
Eligibility
Need for services: members must have support needs in one of the four areas while completing the LTCC:
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- Communication
- Mobility
- Managing behaviors
- Making decisions
Through the LTCC assessment care coordinators will determine any limitations the member has. When a care coordinator sees a limitation in one of these areas, the member has met the needs based criteria. A member does not need to meet the definition of “dependency” on the LTCC in one of the above categories to qualify.
Housing instability: members must also have housing instability to qualify for housing stabilization services. The member must meet one of the following criteria:
- Homeless
- At risk of homelessness (including could become homeless without continued housing services)
- Institutionalized (currently or within the last 6 months) Eligible for a waiver (a person with an institutional level of care is also deemed at risk of institutionalization)
Disability or disabling condition: members must meet a defined criteria for disability. For the purposes of qualifying for housing stabilization being age 65 or over is a qualifier under the disability and disabling condition category
