Increase the inventory of permanent and transitional supportive housing. 0000035340 00000 n Additionally, homeless heads of household tend to be younger and tend to have younger children than their housed counterparts (Shinn et al 1998; Webb et all 2003). Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness(PATH). o Complete, disseminate, and promote the use of toolkits developed by agencies (e.g., SAMHSAs Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) #42 Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders, Assertive Community Treatment and Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment, and Permanent Supportive Housing. Problem: Inability to control drinking. The program works to establish and build relationships between street youth and program outreach staff in order to help youth leave the streets. Case managers typically manage the entire scope of a client's treatment or service. xref Street outreach programs must have access to local emergency shelter space that is an appropriate placement for young people and that can be made available for youth willing to come in off the streets. Current research indicates that homeless families are more similar to poor housed families than to single homeless individuals (Burt, et al 1999; Bassuk et al 1996). Developing Program Goals and Measurable Objectives Program goals and objectives establish criteria and standards against which you can determine program performance. Remember that determining the treatment plan that fits best for any given patient is a long process of trial and error, one that can involve extensive medical history screening and other processes. Washington, D.C. 20201 Also, it helps the clients to measure their progress. The Guide focuses on implementation of HAB Policy 99-02, as issued in 1999 by the Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, which administers the CARE Act. Develop effective supports for youth aging out of government care. Evaluation of the Health Care for the Homeless/Community Mental Health Center Collaboration Project (ASPE & SAMHSA). Much of the data we collect is recorded and tracked using Alameda County's Homeless Information Management System (HMIS), an integrated countywide database that tracks homeless housing and service outcomes in the region. State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). 0000037847 00000 n Skip to content. Representatives of fifty-four states and U.S. territories joined federal agency partners, public and private organizations addressing homelessness, and technical assistance providers to showcase innovative approaches that states and territories are implementing, exchange peer-to-peer technical assistance, and renew the states and territories commitment to fully implementing their Homeless Policy Academy action plans. Appendix E: Comparison of Goals and Strategies: 2003 Strategic Action Plan and 2007 Strategic Action Plan. HHS 2007 Homelessness Strategic Action Plan. Total expenditures for the SCHIP program in FY 2005 were $5.129 billion, however, state SCHIP programs are not required to report to CMS on the homelessness or housing status of persons who receive health care supported with SCHIP funding; therefore, SCHIP data systems are not designed to produce estimates of expenditures on services provided to eligible homeless persons. To end Aboriginal homelessness and other housing issues while understanding cultural competencies and ensuring cultural sensitivities through collaborative community efforts and awareness of cultural identity; maintain safe and culturally appropriate housing allows for not just purchasing, but renting and maintenance as well; 0000000016 00000 n housing: Include move in date and any help with household goods. Short-term goals should be measurable, brief, specific, and small, and measurable (Brems, 2008). Report available at: http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/femHomeless/femHomeless.pdf, How States Can Use SAMHSA Block Grants to Support Services for People Who Are Homeless (SAMHSA). . The goals and strategies from the 2003 Strategic Action Plan framework specifically focused on chronic homelessness. o Monitor the development of HUDs Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) and seek opportunities to partner with HUD and local Continuums of Care on future research initiatives utilizing HMIS data, while maintaining the confidentiality of personally identifying information about individuals served by domestic violence programs. Contents Strategic Action Plan Framework Each year, approximately one percent of the U.S. population, some 2-3 million individuals, experiences a night of homelessness that puts them in contact with a homeless assistance provider, and at least 800,000 people are homeless in the United States on any given night. Ensure youth have access to necessary treatment and recovery supports to address addiction, mental and physical health issues. This strategic action plan serves as the next iteration of the strategic action plan released in 2003, Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action, which outlined the Departments strategy for contributing to the Administration goal of ending chronic homelessness. Another key effort extending into the states is the work of the ICH to encourage the development of State Interagency Councils on Homelessness as well as state and local ten-year planning processes to end chronic homelessness. Although goals and objectives have similar purposes for patient recovery, they do have slight differences. o Disseminate the findings and results of HHS data collection efforts with Federal partners and collaborate on efforts to improve data quality on homelessness. Native American Tribes, too, can operate culturally appropriate child support programs with Federal funding. Screenings for depression for all new mothers (new this year). Tasks: Client: Client will make appointment with medical provider . Report is available at: http://www.nhchc.org/Publications/HIVguide52703.pdf, Core Performance Indicators for Homeless-Serving Programs Administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE). The study has an explicit focus on comparing homeless assistance programs administered by faith-based versus secular non-profit service agencies. Develop and construct permanent supporting housing complexes. Furthermore, the Department has been pursuing a strategy over the past several years of increasing access to mainstream resources for eligible homeless individuals and families. It has been the Departments experience that it does not yet have an established data approach by which to track its success in addressing homelessness. 0000003988 00000 n Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI) (also referred to as Treatment for Homeless). This lack of baseline information about the number of homeless individuals and families served in HHS mainstream programs makes it difficult, if not impossible, for HHS to document improvements in access. Compare HHS inventory with the inventory of other Federal agencies, such as HUD. The Characteristics and Needs of Sheltered Homeless and Low-Income Housed Mothers. The 2003 Plan has served as the framework for developing and implementing activities across the Department related to chronic homelessness. Grants can also be used for outreach activities targeting youth who may need assistance. Types of services include transportation to care, translation services, respite care for family caregivers, and health education programs; 3) Population-based Services - Most of these services are preventive services that are available to everyone. o Continue interagency collaborations between HHS program agencies to develop tools that are designed for use by both homeless service providers as well as individuals who are homeless. He holds a Masters of Social Work from California State University, Sacramento and a Masters in Theology from Seattle University. o Explore state practices related to policies designed to suspend, rather than terminate, Medicaid eligibility for individuals who are institutionalized so that the eligibility process does not need to be initiated over again upon release. Strategy 1.2 Identify risk and protective factors to prevent chronic homelessness among persons who are already homeless. http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/homelessness/perf-ind03/report.pdf, Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action (HHS). As a result, we will be able to see more precisely what is working, replicate or refine those efforts, and report successes in minutes rather than days or weeks. During addiction detox programs, you are medically supervised as you step down from your addiction. Treatment for Individuals - SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health . Additional appendices provide a list of commonly used acronyms (Appendix C), a membership list of the Secretarys Work Group, including the staff list of the Strategic Action Plan Subcommittee (Appendix D), and finally, a crosswalk of the goals and strategies included in the 2003 and 2007 Plans (Appendix E). A common database was developed to collect client-level data from each of the pilot projects. Each year over 250 people donate food, household goods and other items for an added value of approximately $165,000. Goal . First, the Department has broadened the scope of the plan to address issues faced by a clientele that encompasses not only chronically homeless individuals, but also homeless families with children and runaway and homeless youth. Shinn, Marybeth, Weitzman, Beth C., Stojanovic, Daniela, Knickman, James R., et al. Services are available to a parent with custody of a child whose other parent is living outside the home, and services are available automatically for families receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The general premise of the strategic action plan posits that homelessness is a complex social problem, and ending chronic homelessness requires housing combined with the types of services supported by the programs funded and operated by HHS. The primary purpose for the development of the 2007 Strategic Action Plan is to refine the goals and strategies outlined in the 2003 Strategic Action Plan in order to reflect the progress that has been made, and has not been made, in the four years since the development of the initial HHS strategic action plan on homelessness. Goal 3:Work to prevent new episodes of homelessness within the HHS clientele, Goal 1: Prevent episodes of homelessness within the HHS clientele, including individuals and families, Strategy 3.1Identify risk and protective factors to prevent future episodes of chronic homelessness, Strategy 1.1 Identify risk and protective factors to prevent episodes of homelessness for at-risk populations, Strategy 1.2 Identify risk and protective factors to prevent chronic homelessness among persons who are already homeless, Strategy 3.2 Promote the use of effective, evidence-based homelessness prevention interventions, Strategy 1.3 Develop, test, disseminate, and promote the use of evidence-based homelessness prevention interventions, Goal 1:Help eligible, chronically homeless individuals receive health and social services, Goal 2: Help eligible, homeless individuals and families receive health and social services, Strategy 2.1 Strengthen outreach and engagement activities, Strategy 2.2 Improve the eligibility review process, Strategy 2.3 Explore ways to maintain program eligibility, Strategy 1.4Improve the transition of clients from homeless-specific programs to mainstream service providers, Strategy 2.4 Examine the operation of HHS programs, particularly mainstream programs that serve both homeless and non-homeless persons, to improve the provision of services to persons experiencing homelessness, Strategy 2.5 Foster coordination across HHS to address the multiple problems of individuals and families experiencing homelessness, Goal 2:Empower our state and community partners to improve their response to people experiencing chronic homelessness, Goal 3: Empower our state and community partners to improve their response to individuals and families experiencing homelessness, Strategy 2.1Use state Policy Academies to help states develop specific action plans to respond to chronic homelessness, Strategy 3.1 Work with states and territories to effectively implement Homeless Policy Academy Action Plans, Strategy 3.2 Work with governors, county officials, mayors, and tribal organizations to maintain a policy focus on homelessness, including homelessness as a result of disasters, Strategy 2.2 Permit flexibility in paying for services that respond to the needs of persons with multiple problems, Strategy 3.3 Examine options to expand flexibility in paying for services that respond to the needs of persons with multiple problems, Strategy 2.3Reward coordination across HHS assistance programs to address the multiple problems of chronically homeless people, Strategy 2.4Provide incentives for states and localities to coordinate services and housing, Strategy 3.4 Encourage states and localities to coordinate services and housing, Strategy 3.5 Develop, disseminate and use toolkits and blueprints to strengthen outreach, enrollment, and service delivery, Strategy 2.6Provide training and technical assistance on chronic homelessness to mainstream service providers, Strategy 3.6 Provide training and technical assistance on homelessness, including chronic homelessness, to mainstream service providers at the state and community level, Strategy 2.7Establish a formal program of training on chronic homelessness, Strategy 2.8Address chronic homelessness in the formulation of future HHS budgets or in priorities for using a portion of expanded resources, (basis for new Goal 4 and Strategies 4.1 - 4.4), Strategy 2.9Develop an approach for baseline data, performance measurement, and the measurement of reduced chronic homelessness within HHS, Strategy 2.10Establish an ongoing oversight body within HHS to direct and monitor the plan, Goal 4: Develop an approach to track Departmental progress in preventing, reducing, and ending homelessness for HHS clientele, Strategy 4.1 Inventory data relevant to homelessness currently collected in HHS targeted and mainstream programs; including participants housing status, Strategy 4.2 Develop an approach for establishing baseline data on the number of homeless individuals and families served in HHS programs, Strategy 4.3 Explore a strategy by which to track improved access to HHS mainstream and targeted programs for persons experiencing homelessness, including individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, Strategy 4.4 Coordinate HHS data activities with other federal data activities related to homelessness. Fifty-five percent of the cities participating in the 2006 Hunger and Homelessness Survey report that families may have to separate in order to be sheltered (U.S. Conference of Mayors 2006). o Encourage states and communities to establish approaches, such as partnerships, to create a coordinated, comprehensive system of services to address homelessness, including chronic homelessness. The study design involved a five-year, cross-site data collection and analysis program involving eight study sites. Rebecca S. Ashery, Public Health Analyst, Office of Minority and Special Populations, Health Resources and Services Administration, Benita Baker,Public Health Analyst, Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Joanne Gampel, Social Science Analyst, Division of State and Community Assistance, Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Denise Juliano-Bult, Chief, Systems Research Program, Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Charlene LeFauve, Chief, Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch, Acting Chief, Data Infrastructure Branch, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Division of State and Community Assistance, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Valerie Mills, Senior Public Health Advisor, Office of Policy, Planning and Budget, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Elaine Parry, Director of Special Initiatives, Immediate Office of the Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Harry Posman,Executive Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration on Aging, Kathy Rama, Technical Director, Division of Advocacy and Special Issues, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Larry Rickards, Chief, Homeless Programs Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Idalia Sanchez, Associate Director for Policy, Chief, Office of Policy Development, Division of Science and Policy, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Marsha Werner, Social Services Program Specialist, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families. 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