Thinking About Reentry& Supportive Housing

Georgia Supportive Housing Association

2013 Annual Conference

Ryan Moser

CSH works to advance solutions that use housing as a platform for services to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people, maximize public resources and build healthy communities.

Maximizing Public Resources

Public Systems

CSH collaborates with communities to introduce housing solutions that promote integration among public service systems, leading to strengthened partnerships and maximized resources.

Maximized

Resources

What is Supportive Housing?

Housing where tenants have a lease

Affordable, ideally tied to 30% of a person’s income

Paired with voluntary and flexible services to support tenancy

‘But For’ Rule

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Basic Supportive Housing Types

Single-Site

Mixed-Tenancy

Scattered-Site

THINKING ABOUT REENTRY HOUSING NEEDS

We need to know what’s

happening!

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The Institutional Circuit of Homelessness and Crisis Service Systems

The “institutional circuit”:

Indicates complex, co-occurring social, health and behavioral health problems

Reflects failure of mainstream systems of care to adequately address needs

Demands more comprehensive intervention encompassing housing, intensive case management, and access to responsive health care

Detox

Emergency Residential

Program

Jail

Shelter

Psychiatric Hospital

EmergencyRoom

Olmstead and Mental Health Services

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, 2013

Aging and Correctional Health

We need

to triage

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Individuals with disabilities such as serious mental illness and chronic health and substance abuse

issues who will need longer-term services

Low Need

Individuals with limited employment history and educational achievement, and who may have substance abuse, health or

mental health challenges

Individuals who are able-bodied and employable, who face an income/affordability gap; also may need short-term assistance with

community reintegration

Criminal Justice and Housing Needs

Moderate Need

High Need

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT REENTRY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING?

Specialized Eligibility

Assertive Recruitment Through Jail, Shelter, Hospital In-Reach

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Specialized Reentry Services

Critical Time Intervention

Criminal Justice Savvy – SPCTRM

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Plus Additoinal: Employment Addiction Mental Health

Specialized Funding

EXAMPLES

Clear Metrics

High Utilizers – FUSE

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The Jericho Project’s Edith W. MacGuire Residence, New York, NY

79 studio apartments for formerly homeless men and women with mental illness or substance abuse

Jericho’s supportive services model emphasizes helping tenants reach maximum potential including recovery from addiction, education and employment, and family reunification through a client-centered and non-coercive approach

Barry’s Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1r4H8ZxzGQ

Reductions in Jail and Shelter

NYC FUSE Cost Differential

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Varied sporadic pattern of one or both of the situations over follow-up period – no exemplar

Incarcerated

Both

Comparison

FUSE

Sheltered Neither

Coordinate Effort

Returning Home Ohio

Focuses on people with mental illness and addictive disorders exiting prison

Includes ‘targeted prison in-reach programs’ and ‘moving on’ components

$3.9 Million investment over three years, increasing in 2014, by ODRC

Placed over 100+ into scattered-site supportive housing, reduced recidivism, reduced shelter use, increased service connection.

Returning Home Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9SOItn_WM

Adopt a whatever it takes approac

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Portland, OR – Central City Concern’s Housing Rapid Response

Supportive and transitional housing for “frequent flyers” of jails (no specific minimum # of arrests) - Currently serving 50 tenants

Police and outreach team identify homeless individuals with repeat prior arrests and transport them to CCC’s housing sites (pre-booking)

Tenants have 80% housing retention and 59% decrease in arrests after engagement in the program

42 units of supportive housing, 30 for people leaving corrections who are homeless, 12 set aside for parolees.

Includes integrated financing from HUD McKinney Homeless grants, Low-income Housing Tax Credits, IL Dept. of Human Services, IL Dept. of Corrections, and others.

Conducts “in-reach” into correctional facilities to provide a smooth transition into supportive housing.

St. Andrew’s Court, Chicago, IL

Castle and Castle Gardens, Fortune Society, New York, NY

Thank You

Ryan Moser, CSH61 Broadway, Suite 2300New York City, NY 10006212-986-2966, ext. 248ryan.moser@csh.org