![]() ![]() Assisting with employment and education goals.Connecting residents to supportive services.Applying for mainstream benefits such as SSI/SSDI.Helio Health will work intensively with residents, using a person-centered/motivational interviewing approach to encourage residents to participate in self-sufficiency goals. Helio Housing First (16 units) and KEES II (48 units) programs serve homeless individuals with qualifying disabilities (for example substance use disorder, mental illness, physical limitation). Permanent Housing for those with a Qualifying Disability Referrals to address medical, family, legal and employment/vocational goals can be made, if desired. Staff assists residents in creating and achieving goals in an individualized service plan where the primary focus is self-sufficiency. Rental assistance (up to 24 months, average 12 months).All homeless providers in the community have access to this list, and individuals entering this program are selected from this list.įAST Housing is a Housing First rapid rehousing project designed to serve a minimum of 20 homeless individuals annually with: Individuals must be placed on HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Coordinated Entry list. VI-SPDATS are done at shelters and homeless outreach teams.Individuals must have a VI-SPDAT completed.Individuals must meet the HUD definition of chronic homelessness.Guidelines established by HUD and NY-505.Helio Housing First (49 units) serves chronically homeless individuals with a qualifying disabling condition such as: substance use disorder, mental illness or physical limitations. Many program participants access all of their supportive services within the organization, so waiting times to access services are dramatically reduced. The Helio Health Vocational Lab offers access to a work readiness counselor and various workshops including: resume building, interviewing skills, rebuilding credit, financial literacy, budgeting.For those choosing to engage in supportive services, program participants have access to Helio Health’s Integrated Outpatient Services (substance use disorder/mental health/gambling), detox, inpatient and employment services. Supportive services are offered to maximize housing stability and prevent returns to homelessness.Housing First is an approach to quickly and successfully connect individuals experiencing homelessness to permanent housing without preconditions and barriers to entry, such as sobriety, treatment or service participation requirements. At Helio Health, we apply a Housing First Model as a method of ending homelessness.
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