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Building Housing First
into Your Community’s
Homeless System
Liz Drapa
Program Manager - Illinois
Corporation for Supportive Housing
NAEH Conference – July 18, 2006
www.csh.org
Our Mission
CSH helps communities create
permanent housing with services to
prevent and end homelessness.
Overview of
Chicago’s Plan to
End Homelessness
4 Tenets of the Plan
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Prevention
Housing First
Wraparound Services
System Change
How We Built in Housing 1st
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Coalition/Support Building
Program Change
System-Wide Coordination
Partnerships
Sound Transition Goals
Financial Resources
Evaluation
Coalition/Support Building
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Reconfigured the Continuum of Care Board
– ¼ Government; ¼ Providers; ¼ consumers;
remaining are at-large members
– Every seat represents a constituency group
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Developed an Implementation Schedule for Plan
– Outlines tasks, targets, responsible parties under
Plan’s core tenets
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Support Mayor’s office, Continuum staff, provider
Partnership, and Consumer Caucus
Program Change
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Developed program models
– Outline the essential requirements for every
program type under the Plan
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Required programs receiving HUD and City
money to be consistent with the Plan for funding
Provided TA and training to programs under
conversion
Mandated outcomes for every project
Begun evaluation of interim housing model
System-Wide Coordination
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Initiate discharge planning work – esp. around
frequent users
Provide training to all CoC members on Plan,
program models, and innovative strategies
HMIS implementation
Coordinate development of prevention hotline
Explore development of permanent housing
waiting list
Partnerships
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Chronic Homeless Bonus $ - CoC coordinate one
application process and sets priorities
– 2005 & 2006 awarded scattered site SHP
subsidies
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Housing Locator Program
– 6 locators funded by City to coordinate market rate
unit location and placement
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Street to Home Initiative
– Funded by City to target 100 chronically homeless
persons on street
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Harm Reduction Initiative
– Assist agency in becoming harm reduction
(funded by foundations)
Sound Transition Goals
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Set blueprint for change for system conversion
– 2003 initial blueprint and revised in 2006 based on
new data and assumptions
– Outlines the goals per year for shelter change and
permanent housing development
– Entire CoC, PTEH, City approve goals
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Set realistic goals and track goals in State of
Plan
Work to match funding priorities to goals
Financial Resources
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HUD Dollars
– Continue to improve evaluation tool for programs and
organize according to priorities
– Work with programs to restructure budgets to fund housing
or to accommodate program changes
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City Dollars
– Require consistency with Plan
– Coordinate transition from shelter to interim housing
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Pursue new dollars
– State Rental Support Bill
– Prevention Dollars
Evaluation
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Conduct evaluation of program models
– Recently released report on interim housing
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Conduct evaluation of system barriers
– Recently released report on intake barriers to
permanent housing
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Release State of the Plan 2x/year
– January 2006 and July 2006 reports released
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Issue report on SuperNOFA process and results
annually
Our Challenges and
Successes
Upcoming Challenges
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Getting HMIS up and running
Integrating flexible delivery of services and
housing throughout the system
– Harm Reduction Pilot
– Addressing barriers to intake in all programs
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Reaching our “tipping point”
Continuing to support the CoC process
Understanding new homeless needs
Obtaining service dollars (and other dollars!)
Successes to Date
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Doubled the # of people receiving prevention
Added 1,303 permanent housing units
Phased in 1,497 interim housing beds
Phased out 1,948 shelter beds
Opened 4 new PSH developments (386 units)
Added 269 chronic homeless units
Initiated HMIS system
Added new partnerships
Resources
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NAEH Housing First Network:
http://www.endhomelessness.org/networks/housingfirst/
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NPR Series on Housing First:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/housingfirst/
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Chicago Reports on System/Program Change:
http://www.chicagocontinuum.org/archives/catalog.html
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Chicago Training Series:
http://www.chicagocontinuum.org/resources/trainginfo.html
Contact Information
Liz Drapa
Corporation for Supportive Housing
203 North Wabash
Chicago IL 60601
Phone: 312-332-6690 x19
Email: [email protected]
To learn more about
supportive housing
visit www.csh.org