1 / 10

A Home of Their Own Accomplishments of New Mexico’s Supportive Housing Initiative June 2010

A Home of Their Own Accomplishments of New Mexico’s Supportive Housing Initiative June 2010. Supportive Housing Initiative. Transformative: promotes best practices and interventions for integrated, permanent supportive housing

elvina
Download Presentation

A Home of Their Own Accomplishments of New Mexico’s Supportive Housing Initiative June 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. A Home of Their OwnAccomplishments of New Mexico’s Supportive Housing InitiativeJune 2010

  2. Supportive Housing Initiative Transformative: promotes best practices and interventions for integrated, permanent supportive housing Collaborative Partnerships: State Housing Finance; C of C; Providers, Housing Developers; Public Housing Authorities; multiple State Agencies Innovative Approaches : Local Collaboratives and consumers driving housing projects; Local Lead Agency framework serves cross-disability populations Leverages Funds and Efforts: Federal, State, and Local resources for both housing development and mainstream support services

  3. New Mexico’s Supportive Housing PlanGuiding Document Develop 5,000 Units of Supportive Housing Goal 1: Create Local Supportive Housing Partnerships Goal 2: Create a ‘ Pipeline’ of Supportive Housing Units Goal 3: Create Rental Assistance Opportunities Goal 4: Develop Best Practices for Housing Supports and Services

  4. Supportive Housing InvestmentsBehavioral Health CollaborativeState Agencies

  5. First Phase Accomplishments of New Mexico Supportive Housing Plan

  6. Goals of the Two State-Funded Supportive Housing ProgramsLinkages and Transitions • Develop community support and receptivity for supportive housing model • Determine financial resources needed for: • housing rental subsidies • support services • Determine policies, practices changes in service delivery system

  7. Linkages Program Status • Began February 2008 • All 39 vouchers are being utilized with high demand for more vouchers; low consumer turnover • Reaching the ‘hardest to serve’ homeless • Supportive housing is cost effective and transforms lives • Forging successful partnerships between Housing Administrators & Service Provider Agencies

  8. Lessons Learned from Linkages Program • Requires effective and ongoing consumer engagement strategies after tenant housed • Ensure support services agency is at all times tuned into tenant / landlord / neighbor relationships and skilled in conflict resolution • Need to help tenant develop crisis / safety plan for them to implement and Provider be available on an ‘on call’ basis • Coordinate monthly home visits (or more frequently at first) to check on welfare of tenant

  9. Challenges: Putting the ‘Supports’ in Supportive Housing Services using recovery and resiliency model include: • Assist persons in their housing search and application process; and, making reasonable accommodations and modifications • Ensure 24/7 supportive services to help consumers in crisis • Provide ongoing supportive services to resolve issues, teach problem solving, life skills and prevent eviction • Pay rent and utilities timely • Maintain apartment according to lease requirements • Communicate effectively with landlords & neighbors

  10. Contact Information:Janie McGuigan, Supportive Housing Coordinator New Mexico Behavioral Health CollaborativeHuman Services Department Jane.mcguigan@state.nm.us 505-222-4522

More Related