2.10 Permanent Supportive Housing for Families (Harte)
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This workshop will examine permanent supportive housing models that are serving families with the greatest barriers to housing stability, including families that experienced chronic homelessness.
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2.10 Permanent Supportive Housing for Families (Harte)
- 1. Keeping Families Together: Using Permanent Supportive Housing to Preserve and Strengthen High-Risk Families
- 6. ACS Field Office, ACS Contracted Preventive Agencies Court Unit Family Court Children’s Attorneys Parents’ Attorneys KFT Housing providers interview eligible applicants ACS/DHS Child Advantage Match DHS Shelters CSH/Keeping Families Together ACS FAMILIES: Open & Indicated Case DHS FAMILIES 1 of 2 years homeless or “at-risk” Families are placed in housing; program evaluator collects baseline data Identifying Families Typically Out of Reach HRA Determines Eligibility DHS
- 8. Childhood Experiences of KFT Heads of Household
- 12. Keeping Families Together Partners
- 14. KFT Non-Profit Provider Partners Provider Name Units Model Location CAMBA 2 Integrated Brooklyn LESC 10 Single-Site Bronx St. John’s LLP 2 Single-Site Bronx The Lantern Group 6 Single-Site Bronx Palladia, Inc. 4 Single-Site Bronx Women-in-Need 5 Scattered-Site Brooklyn
- 15. Alison Harte Project Director, Keeping Families Together [email_address] Donna Tapper [email_address] Rebecca Swann-Jackson [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- Quick overview of the pilot and then Our partners will talk about different aspects of the pilot, serving families in SH and some of the collaborative efforts that were critical to the pilot
- Case of Nixzmary Brown – Homeless and child welfare systems had repeatedly encountered family but unable to intervene led to continued abuse and neglect and child’s death Confounding to most people b/c family was known to both the shelter system and the child welfare system but nieher system was able to servie the family effectively and prevent the death of the little girl RWJF and CSH hypothesize that Permanent Supportive Housing could become a new strategy for preventing abuse and neglect among multi-system involved families
- CSH brought together several New York City agencies, experts and nonprofit organizations experienced with providing supportive housing for families to design the KFT intervention collaboratively. With the Foundation’s backing, 30 units of permanent supportive housing were made available to homeless families at highest risk of having a child removed. CSH also worked to ensure
- The KFT model turned the usual paradigm for prioritizing affordable housing on its head. Rather than targeting the most “stable” families, KFT sought out families with the most complicated cases and who were at greatest risk Interagency collab very important coming from different places -- PSH was looked at as vehicle for serving those families who have been homeless the longest – in order to prioritize families through the lens of another system – child welfare – needed the working group to establish contacts and determine where families needed to be identified (shelter not enough – not good at identifying disabilities (nature of relationships) some shelters had perspective of “housing readiness” red tape often a deterrent to highest need families
- 80% (N=24) were found eligible for supportive housing due to a history of substance abuse and 10% were found eligible because of a history of severe/ persistent mental illness, or medical disabilities
- Intergenerational cycle of complex traumas, parental substance abuse and out of home placements
- Although chronically homeless adults have generally low levels of engagement in outpatient mental health services, substance abuse treatment and health care, many KFT families took advantage of the services available to them:
- Seeing very positive outcomes related the housing stability, child welfare involvement and children’s education compared from before move-in to one year after move;
- Working group met 25 times 2007 – 2010 2007 -08 focused on identification of referral criteria and recruitment of families 2008 -09 model development -- family challenges, building provider capacity to serve families 09-10 Larger Policy Issues – PA & Housing Retention & ACS status (missed appointments, etc.) Looking at new models Advocacy: building a housing/child welfare advocacy coalition : Looking at underserved populations;
- Different perspectives Give Background on providers CAMBA Multi service provider St John’s MH Housing Singles Lantern – mixed housing developers – affordable/lighter service models Palladia – substance use treatment; most experience serving families in supportive housing WIN – Substance use and shelter Refer to hand out for more details on provider history