Home Works:  Solving Family Homelessness Through Permanent Supportive Housing

Prepared by Kate Durham and the Corporation for Supportive Housing

February 1, 2006
2:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern

This First Wednesday session will focus on a new publication, Home Works, and presentations by current operators of permanent supportive housing for families.  (Click here to download Home Works.)  Families targeted for supportive housing include those whose head of household has chronic health conditions that are episodically disabling such as mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and substance use, and/or other substantial barriers to housing stability including domestic violence and history of out of home placements. In the years since the launch of this initiative, CSH has continued to partner with local organizations to help expand the availability of supportive housing for homeless families, and to document and support the replication of effective models.

 

Home Works draws upon the pragmatic lessons learned from many family supportive housing projects in operation in and around San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis. Designed primarily for service providers, housing developers and managers, and also for public and private funders, Home Works offers practical guidance for the development and operation of family supportive housing (FSH). While FSH can benefit tremendously from best practices and lessons learned in adult supportive housing, there are points of differentiation worth noting. Home Works aims to stimulate thinking about some of these important differences so that these factors can inform decisions about program philosophies, service packages, staffing, partnerships, and funding.

Featured Presenters: 

• Lauren Hall, Supportive Housing Consultant
• Andrea Canaan, Support Services Manager, Canon Barcus Community House, Episcopal Community Services 
• Linda Bryant, Collaborative Village Director, Collaborative Village, Pillsbury United Communities. 

 

Facilitator:  Matthew Doherty, Director, Resource Center, Corporation for Supportive Housing. 

 

To Register for the Call:

Go to: http://c3.econfcall.net/msrsvpform.jsp?refno=6945908 or to register by phone, call 1-800-403-3303 x201, ask for Wendy Simmer. The rate for the call is $.29/minute plus a $6.00 registration fee or approximately $25.00 for the hour call.

 

To Listen on the Web:

To register to listen to this call by webcast, for which there is no charge, please go to: http://www.onlinevideoservice.com/clients/csh/reg.html (If you encounter any problems with the webcast on February 1, please call this toll-free customer support number: 1-888-652-6811.)

 

 

 

Margaret Lassiter, MA

Policy Research Associates, Inc.

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Delmar, NY 12054

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