Service/Program Model (ex. Service delivery model and components, staffing, location, days/hours of operation) The Sacred Heart Shelter (SHS) will transition from a shelter serving families and women to a facility-based housing program exclusively for homeless families with children as of May 25, 2013. The outcomes in this contract reflect the program’s transition. After the transition is complete, the population served will be chronically and episodically homeless families with multiple barriers to stable housing. Prior to the transition, SHS will house a minimum six single women. SHS will refer its single women residents to appropriate shelter/housing programs, and will follow-up with clients to ensure that referrals are appropriate to their needs. Referrals will be provided prior to May 25, 2013. The SHS program will serve at minimum 14 homeless families during the contract period. Sacred Heart Shelter provides comprehensive and unique programs and services directed to families with dependent children, and offers a continuum of enriched support services, comprehensive case management, and programming geared towards children and families. Family-based support services include onsite children’s programming; crisis intervention through a Children’s Advocate; one-on-one counseling for parents and children; and parenting classes. In addition, an onsite health care team is available to provide mental and medical services. Sacred Heart Shelter provides the following basic needs and services to residents: safe, clean shelter; food; hygiene products; children’s needs (such as diapers and clothing); supervised children’s activities; childcare for parental respite; comprehensive and client- driven case management; specialized children’s programming; resource and referrals; a Children’s Advocate who provides after school and evening programming as well as advocacy with educational needs and transfers/enrollments; parenting classes; access to a nurse for medical care services; and mental health services and individual counseling. SHS receives referrals from Family Housing Connection, completes an intake with families prior to placement in the shelter, and follows up with a comprehensive assessment within 10 days of residency. Intake and assessments for families will include identification and sufficient documentation of family members, including children accompanying adults into family shelter, in order to determine eligibility and appropriateness of services. Any required supporting document...
Service/Program Model (ex. Service delivery model and components, staffing, location, days/hours of operation) The Aloha Inn is a resident-managed transitional housing program serving single adults and couples who are homeless, extremely low income and need assistance to obtain housing. The program serves 66 people at any given time and roughly 140 over the course of a year. The program’s goals are to move residents into sustainable permanent housing at exit and help them obtain sufficient income to live as independently as possible. The Aloha Inn strives to help residents secure permanent housing at exit and increase their financial stability. To achieve these goals, the Aloha Inn employs a full time Housing Specialist who works with every resident to develop a housing plan, as well as a part time Benefits Specialist who works one-on-one with residents to either apply for benefits or secure employment. Residents will have the opportunity to access an array of services including employment assistance, chemical dependency counseling and group meetings, mental health therapy, a computer lab and computer training, limited dental and vision care, and bus tickets. Residents also receive assistance to identify housing options and complete housing applications, as well as other housing related assistance The Aloha Inn is located at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000. The building was formerly a hotel. Each room has a private bathroom. Residents may initially be assigned a roommate, and may attain a single room as they progress and meet program requirements. The program will allow couples to stay together as well as parents with their adult children.
