Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Desk Guide

Publication Date: 2008

The SHP Desk Guide was designed to help homeless assistance program staff administering McKinney-Vento grants awarded through SHP. SHP is a Federal grant program authorized by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 USC 11381-11389). SHP is designed to promote the development of housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons in the transition from the streets and shelters to permanent housing and self-sufficiency. The guide provides info...

Tags: supportive housing; housing; homeless

Helping the homeless: Program evaluation of Philadelphia’s supportive housing program.

Authors: Bolton, Cathy J.H.

Publication Date: 2005

The objective of this research was to determine the clinical effectiveness of the Supportive Housing Project of Philadelphia. This project targeted homeless individuals with diagnoses of severe mental illnesses. Three community behavioral health centers provided clinical supports for 122 clients across a five-year time frame (1997 – 2001). This research sought to address two questions. First, did participants show progress toward achieving program outcome goals? Sec...

Tags: homeless; supportive housing; housing program

Supportive Housing & Homeless Programs (SHHP)

SHHP is a statewide housing agency that operates within the Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health and Housing. SHHP’s rental assistance programs are available in all 64 counties in Colorado. SHHP partners with more than 60 private nonprofit agencies to provide housing options for Colorado citizens with special needs. The rental assistance programs provide a subsidy for extremely low- and very low-income families—the elderly, t...

Tags: homelessness; supportive housing; funding; older clients; people with disabilities

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Homelessness: Grant Applicants' Characteristics and Views on the Supportive Housing Program

Organization: U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)

Publication Date: 1999

Many homeless people in America have multiple personal, social, and economic problems that prevent them from obtaining permanent housing. Research has shown that housing alone is often not a solution to homelessness for many people. A comprehensive set of supportive services—such as substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, child care services, and employment assistance—is also needed. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Supportive...

Tags: supportive housing; housing; veterans

Transitional Supportive Housing Programs: Battered Women's Perspectives and Recommendations

Authors: Melbin, Anna; Sullivan, Cris; Cain, Debra

Journal Name: AFFILIA: Journal of Women and Social Work

Publication Date: 2003

Finding safe, affordable housing is one of the greatest obstacles that women who leave abusive partners face. In response, advocates for battered women have begun to offer transitional supportive housing (TSH) programs. This article reports on interviews with 55 key stakeholders of these programs (direct service staff, current participants, former participants, and shelter residents) to examine the degree to which TSH programs fulfill the needs of...

Tags: women; violence; housing; domestic violence; supportive services; supportive housing

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Homelessness: Grant Applicants' Characteristics & Views On the Supportive Housing Program

Publication Date: 1999

Many homeless people in America have multiple personal, social, and economic problems that prevent them from obtaining permanent housing. Research has shown that housing alone is often not a solution to homelessness for many people. A comprehensive set of supportive services—such as substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, child care services, and employment assistance—is also needed. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Supportive...

Tags: supportive housing; background and context; financing and sustainability; McKinney Title 1

The Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program Evaluaiton Report

Authors: Anderson, A.; Sherwood, K.; TWR Consulting

Publication Date: 2000

An objective evaluation of the Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program begun in 1992. The Program is the joint effort of the State of Connecticut and the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to produce over 200 units of service-enriched permanent housing for homeless and at-risk populations. The evaluation is intended to determine if stable housing reduces the need for expensive health and social services over tim...

Tags: program evaluation; supportive housing; cost-effective analysis; program planning and evaluation; transitional housing; Cost Analysis of Homelessness

Perceived Coercion to Treatment and Housing Satisfaction in Housing-First and Supportive Housing Programs

Authors: Robbins, Pamela Clark.; Callahan, Lisa; Monahan, John

Journal Name: Psychiatry Services

Publication Date: 2009

Tags: housing

Longitudinal Assessment of Family Support Among Homeless Mentally Ill Participants in a Supported Housing Program

Authors: Wood, Patricia; Hurlburt, Michael; Hough, Richard; Hofstetter, C. Richard

Journal Name: Journal of Community Psychology

Publication Date: 1998

Although strengthening the family relations of individuals with severe mental illness has been identified as an important objective for community-based case management programs, little is known about the impact of such programs on patterns of family relations over time. This study assesses longitudinally the family support of a large sample of homeless mentally ill individuals participating in a supported housing program. The program rando...

Tags: mental health; families; housing; supportive housing

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Put Your House in Order: Securing Your Supportive Housing Program's Future through Effective Asset Management

Authors: Hals, Kristina

Source: Seattle, WA: AIDS Housing of Washington, 2002.

Organization: AIDS Housing of Washington (AHW)

Publication Date: 2002

Designed as an introduction to the basic concepts of asset management, this guide translates successful practices from mainstream affordable housing to the specialized context of AIDS and supportive housing. It includes both guidelines for planning and implementing effective asset management strategies and a reference section that will help providers find both training opportunities and additional resource materials available in print and on the Internet. (AHW)

Tags: HIV/AIDS; housing; health; supportive housing; affordable housing

Referral and Housing Processes in a Long-Term Supported Housing Program for Homeless Veterans

Authors: Kasprow, Wesley; Rosenheck, Robert; Frisman, Linda; DiLella, Diane

Journal Name: Psychiatric Services

Publication Date: 2000

...into an apartment, and 84 percent of those who obtained an apartment were stably housed one year later. In general, activities of case managers, such as accompanying the veteran to the public housing authority and securing additional sources of income, were associated with success in the housing process. The therapeutic alliance, clients’ housing preferences, and the quality of housing were unrelated to retention of housing. Conclusions: This...

Tags: veterans; mental health; supportive housing; housing

HRC Webcast Resource: Operating a Peer-Run Supportive Housing Program for Families

Authors: Woodward, Joseph; Bentley, Laura

Publication Date: 2010

This FREE HRC webcast, which aired on Thursday, March 25, 2010 discussed how to operate a peer-run supportive housing program for families based on the Housing Options Made Easy, Inc. (HOME) model in Western New York State.

Tags: Webcast; supportive housing

Public Health Care Utilization in a Cohort of Homeless Adult Applicants To a Supportive Housing Program

Authors: Kessel, Eric; Bhatia, Rajiv; Bamberger, Joshua; Kushel, Margot

Journal Name: Journal of Urban Health

Publication Date: 2006

Supportive housing is subsidized housing with on-site or closely linked services for chronically homeless persons. Most literature describing the effects of supportive housing on health service utilization does not describe use across multiple domains of services. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 249 applicants to a supportive housing program; 114 (45.7%) were housed in the program. We describe the pa...

Tags: supportive housing; chronic / long-term homelessness

Supported housing programs for persons with serious mental illness in rural northern communities: a mixed method evaluation

Authors: Forchuck, Cheryl; Montgomery, Phyllis; Duncan, Craig; Rose, Don; Bailey, Patricia H; Veluri, Ramamohan

Organization: BMC Health Services Research

Publication Date: 2008

...-existing housing markets, lack of a continuum of support or housing services, and in some communities, a poor quality of housing challenge the viability of effective supported housing services. The current research proposal aims to describe and evaluate the processes and outcomes of supported housing programs for persons living with SMI in northern and rural communities from the perspective of clients, their families,...

Tags: rural homelessness

Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program Evaluation Report Highlights

Publication Date: 2002

The Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program was initiated in June 1992 by the State of Connecticut and the Corporation for Supportive Housing. Between 1993 and 1998, the program financed the development of 281 units of affordable, service-enriched rental housing for homeless and at-risk populations, many of whom were coping with mental illness, histories of substance addiction, or HIV/AIDS. This demonstration also evaluated th...

Tags: housing; employment

Consumer Preference Programs for Individuals Who Are Homeless and Have Psychiatric Disabilities: a Drop-In Center and a Supported Housing Program

Authors: Tsemberis, S. J. ; Moran, L. ; Shinn, M. ; Asmussen, Sara M. ; Shern, D. L.

Journal Name: American Journal of Community Psychology

Publication Date: 2003

We illustrate Fairweather's approach to Experimental Social Innovation and Dissemination with two experimental studies of programs to reduce homelessness for 168 and 225 people with mental illness and often substance abuse. Literally homeless participants were randomly assigned to programs that emphasized consumer choice or to the usual continuum of care, in which housing and services are contingent on sobriety and progress in treatment. A drop-in center that eliminated barr...

Tags: mental illness; psychiatric disabilities; housing; subtance abuse; affordable housing; mental health issues; supportive housing

Health status, quality of life, residential stability, substance use, and health care utilization among adults applying to a supportive housing program

Authors: Hwang, S.W.; Gogosis, E.; Chambers, C.; Dunn, J.R.; Hoch, J.S.

Journal Name: Journal of Urban Health

Publication Date: 2011

Supportive housing, defined as subsidized housing in conjunction with site-based social services, may help improve the health and residential stability of highly disadvantaged individuals. This study examined changes in health status, quality of life, substance use, health care utilization, and residential stability among 112 homeless and vulnerably housed individuals who applied to a supportive housing program in Toronto, Canada, from Dec...

Tags: supportive housing; health status; substance use

Mutual Respect and Individual Support: Permanent Housing Programs for Individuals With Long Homelessness Histories

Authors: Megan Edson Grandin

Tags: housing; supportive services; chronic / long-term homelessness; single adults

Health service utilization of chronically homeless adults in supportive housing: Individual and program-level contributions

Authors: Vaulton, Wendy A.

Publication Date: 2010

..., mental illness, substance abuse, and veteran status, inhibit or facilitate health service utilization after enrollment in permanent supportive housing; and (2) How specific supportive housing program characteristics influence health service utilization of chronically homeless adults over time. The study sample included 700 chronically homeless adults enrolled in one of eleven treatment sites. The study's results suggest several individual characterist...

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Evaluating your Program: Permanent Supportive Housing

Authors: ABT Associates, Inc. ; Advocates for Human Potential (AHP); Westat

Publication Date: 2010

This resource provides a foundation for developing an evaluation plan to assess and maintain a strong permanent supportive housing program.

Tags: permanent supportive housing; evidence-based practice; Toolkit