Arapahoe County, Colorado is participating in this initiative.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)recently awarded $8.7 million to seven organizations, including three who will work with DDJ communities, to address the needs of individuals cycling between the criminal justice system and homeless services.The grants will fund Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), an evidence-based intervention shown to lead to decreases in homelessness, arrests, hospitalization, and emergency room visits.
HUD and DOJ’s awards will help communities adopt a Pay for Success (PFS) funding strategy.
[Editor's Note: Star, Underline, & Commit the above to memory]
NY: Outreach to High Need High Cost Individuals -- Best Practices
[This report relates to Health Home AND there are a lot of transferable ideas.]
Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.
Harvard/Kennedy School -- Gov't Performance Lab
Olmstead Cohort (New York State Department of Health, State of New Mexico Human Services Department, Washington State Health Care Authority) Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and the HKS GPL will collaborate to provide a joint cohort-based model of technical assistance.
Subgrantees will receive government-focused expertise on SIB development, evaluation design, and SIB procurement from the HKS GPL and issue-specific expertise from CSH and its partners, the Center for Health Care Strategies and Third Sector Capital Partners, including expertise in the areas of Medicaid funding of institutional and community-based services and the creation and operation of high quality supportive housing including the design of service models best suited to meet the needs of the identified target population.
The Lab is working with Denver to provide housing for 300 homeless people. Obviously, we are talking about scaling that up to meet a considerable housing need in the State's mental health community.
