0000012884 00000 n , National Alliance to End Homelessness, July . 0000002207 00000 n Critically, grantees are using the new funds to supplement, not supplant current funding and are building on existing programs. startxref 0000001805 00000 n Appendix A: Overview of Programs Operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services That May Serve Persons Experiencing Homelessness. 0000036035 00000 n 0000003102 00000 n 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. 0000174231 00000 n o Work with HHS program agencies to ensure that the Departments disaster planning efforts address the special needs of the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations affected by disasters. 0000028353 00000 n Z"S4&.4g&&)5'[&=#i]"bN jbaF-:ZLew5 xJHN"@~VfJJ@WkKi-Xx#/r2Oz!%sMrp(lv93]0\e%AXt@@Cd@@y$.X5D&@RR 80g@ {Clearer goal z As a strategy for reducing retention rates, ELLs will Ensure Calgary Homeless Foundation includes two Aboriginal positions on its board one on-reserve and one off-reserve to ensure a voice. Ninety percent of grant dollars awarded are used for preventive activities, and/or housing activities for youth who are at-risk of experiencing homelessness or are already in a homeless situation, and ten percent of funds are used for support services. 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). Report is available at http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k6/homeless/homeless.pdf, Adapting Your Practice: Treatment and Recommendations for Homeless Patients with HIV/AIDS Pocket Guidebook (HRSA), This condensed pocket guidebook on adapting clinical guidelines for homeless clients with HIV/AIDS was a project of the HIV/AIDS Bureau Homelessness and Housing Workgroup in revising the original manual, Adapting Your Practice: Treatment and Recommendations for Homeless Patients with HIV/AIDS (2003), developed by the Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Clinicians Network. To help you figure out what goals to set, think about: Evaluation of Housing Approaches for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses (SAMHSA). Active and Involved Board of Directors- All thirteen members of our Board are actively engaged in governing the organization. It is assumed throughout this document that no strategies, or activities, will be implemented without seeking and attaining all relevant legislative and/or regulatory changes needed to ensure that all programs within HHS continue to operate within their given authority and mission. Ending homelessness requires housing combined with the types of services supported by HHS programs. Health Center reporting does not support an estimate of expenditures on homelessness outside of the HCH program. The federal government establishes general guidelines for the administration of SCHIP benefits. Monthly progress notes document consumer progress relative to goals identified in the Individualized Service Plan, and indicates where treatment goals have not yet been achieved. This PolicyAcademyfollow-up includes providing technical assistance to the states and territories around effective implementation of their Action Plans and sustaining their momentum in addressing homelessness in their respective states and territories. Case managers face a wide range of objectives and rely on various methods to measure their effectiveness. Although goals and objectives have similar purposes for patient recovery, they do have slight differences. o Identify and develop workforce development strategies and program incentives that foster the adoption and implementation of evidence-based homelessness prevention programs and practices. Goals and Objectives 1) Define Treatment Planning 2) Understanding of Correlation Between Assessment and Treatment Planning 3) Overview of Treatment Planning Process . Home We currently provide permanent and transitional housing at scattered sites along with shelter for 543 homeless households with 655 adults and 420 children. Robertson, M.J., & Toro, P.A 1999. 0000002411 00000 n Home - Office of Supportive Housing - County of Santa Clara itemize accountability and evaluation processes. In FY 2006, the entire Health Center program, including HCH, received $1.785 billion (including funds for Tort Claims). In the case of recommended actions, you can also consider having a separate strategy on Indigenous youth, for instance, or integrate the focus throughout the goals. Health and health needs of homeless and runaway youth. objective. Monitor the Progress. The purpose of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) operated by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is to provide services and activities to reduce poverty, including services to address employment, education, better use of available income, housing assistance, nutrition, energy, emergency services, health, and substance abuse needs. Grants can also be used for outreach activities targeting youth who may need assistance. Homeless prevention activities should be reported under the decent housing objective, since the goal of most prevention activities is to help individuals or families preserve their housing and/or make it more affordable while the individual or family is experiencing a temporary crisis. The Secretarys Work Group will continue to meet regularly. By including the at-risk population in the Plan, the Department is acknowledging those who may be on the verge of becoming homeless and who could become the next generation of chronically homeless individuals. SAMHSA funded a multi-site study of the effectiveness of services provided to homeless women and their children. WRITING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN5 EXAMPLE GOALS & OBJECTIVES6 Goals for Alcohol-related indicators6 INTERVENING VARIABLE 1: Low Enforcement of alcohol-related laws7 INTERVENING VARIABLE 2: LOW PERCEIVED RISK OF LEGAL CONSEQUENCES10 INTERVENING VARIABLE 3: RETAIL ACCESS TO ALCOHOL11 INTERVENING VARIABLE 4: Youth Social Access (for youth only)15 6.2. o Investigate regulatory barriers faced by grantees utilizing HHS funding that impede the ability of grantees to provide timely, comprehensive services to families and individuals experiencing homelessness. 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. endstream endobj 194 0 obj <>/Metadata 19 0 R/PieceInfo<>>>/Pages 18 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/StructTreeRoot 21 0 R/Type/Catalog/LastModified(D:20091102194407)/PageLabels 16 0 R>> endobj 195 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>>/Type/Page>> endobj 196 0 obj <> endobj 197 0 obj <> endobj 198 0 obj <> endobj 199 0 obj <>stream 0000133949 00000 n Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare Strategic Goal 2: Safeguard and Improve National and Global Health Conditions and Outcomes Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen Social Well-Being, Equity, and Economic Resilience The plan calls for engaging key stakeholders in a collaborative community-response model, with critical attention given to meet the needs of diverse communities including Aboriginal people, youth with disabilities, newcomers and LGBTQ2S youth. In 2001, the Secretaries of HHS and HUD met and committed to a collaboration that capitalized on the expertise of HHS in service delivery and the expertise of HUD in housing. homelessness or risk of eviction, and . State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). States have the flexibility to spend SSBG funds on a variety of services. As the title of the 2003 Strategic Action Plan indicates (Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action) the focus of the Work Group was on chronic homelessness. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a block grant to states operated by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Treatment Plan for Homeless Veterans. 0000174588 00000 n Provide permanent and transitional housing subsidies at scattered sites through 15 housing programs. 0000004517 00000 n There are a number of challenges in developing this kind of baseline data, particularly due to the fact that homelessness is a dynamic state; a person may be homeless today but housed tomorrow, thus causing fluidity in the number of program participants experiencing homelessness at any given point in time. The purpose of the Family Violence Prevention and Services program, operated by the Administration for Children and Families, is to fund grants to state agencies, territories and Indian Tribes for the provision of shelter to victims of family violence and their dependents, and for related services, such as emergency transportation and child care. 0000134097 00000 n o Encourage national intergovernmental organizations to hold sessions with a homelessness policy focus at their annual and/or winter meetings (e.g., U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Counties, National Conference of State Legislatures, National Governors Association, National Council of State Governments, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, etc.). Of these, services to promote self-sufficiency are the most relevant to homelessness. A policy change that took effect in September of 2006 expands the allowable uses of surplus real property to include permanent supportive housing. Funds are used by states to support a network of local community action agencies, federally and state recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations, migrant and seasonal farm worker organizations, or private/public community-based organizations to provide a range of services and activities to assist low-income individuals, and families, including the homeless, to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty. 0000174308 00000 n endstream endobj 205 0 obj <>stream Each state, territory, and participating Tribe decides the benefits it will provide and establishes the specific eligibility criteria that must be met to receive financial assistance payments and/or other types of TANF-funded benefits and services. Make personal observable goals for ADHD management. The strategy is available from: . o Promote organizational development and horizontal coordination between agencies such as housing, HIV/AIDS services/prevention, mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention, and criminal justice to provide integrated comprehensive services to prevent homelessness. American Journal of Public Health. A new 64-unit permanent supportive housing complex currently under construction is our largest housing development to date and will house up to 140 adults and children when it is completed in May 2011. Preventing Overdose 2. Effectiveness of the actions taken to achieve the goals is measured in the CAPER or Annual Performance Report. 866-847-3590; . Also indicate whter or not client was able to find an affordable unit to move into. Examples of goals include: This project will oversee the commissioning of a series of synthesis papers, the organization of a symposium to present and discuss the papers, and the production of a final report featuring the papers commissioned for the project. 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. High Staff Retention We maintain a work environment that encourages managers and line staff to use their expertiseand creativity to plan, implement and run dynamic programs that consistently reach outcome measures. 0000066650 00000 n The Administration for Children and Families oversees a program to support a Protection & Advocacy (P&A) System in each State, Territory, as well as a Native American Consortium, to protect and advocate for persons with developmental disabilities. Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI), Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH), and Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals(CABHI), HRSA's Healthcare for the Homeless (HCH), ACF's . The SSBG allows states flexibility in their use of funds for a range of services, depending on state and local priorities. 2001; 116: 344-352. This chapter delineates all the goals and strategies identified in the 2007 Strategic Action Plan. There is no standard but what is key is that you have a way of differentiating between the two and ensuring that your shorter term activities feed into larger priorities. 0000012750 00000 n Strategy 4.4 Coordinate HHS data activities with other federal data activities related to 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. Family Violence Prevention and Services Grant Program (FVPS). Further, build on existing efforts and link with ongoing government or community initiatives where possible. Ensure youth are not discharged into homelessness from housing programs, child protection services, health and correctional systems. 0000001489 00000 n 0000134303 00000 n Promote relationship-based approaches to supporting youth. Tasks such as assessment and planning are described, providing the case manager specific information about case management within the HPRP program. Tips for Conducting an Effective Treatment Plan. Figure 1. Treatment Plan Goals Download Treatment planning is a team effort between the patient and the counselor. 0000000016 00000 n In FY 2005, Medicaid provided coverage to more than 44.7 million individuals including 21.7 children, the aged, blind and/or disabled, and people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payment. 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