Community Living Options Workshops

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Community Living Options Workshops

• Supporting People in Housing

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Supporting People in Housing

• Two Things People Need
• Affordable Housing
• Community Supports

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Affordable Housing Resources

• Section 8 Voucher
• Project-Based Rent Assistance
• Public Housing
• Affordable Housing Options/Permanent Affordable
  Rentals
• McKinney Homeless Assistance
• PATH
• HOME Tenant-Based Assistance (TBA)

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Section 8 Vouchers

• Housing Choice Voucher
• Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
• Project-Based Voucher
• Vouchers Based at Project

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Public Housing
a.k.a. Low Income Housing
Affordable Housing Options/ Permanent Affordable
Rentals
e.g. HUD 811 and other capital subsidies
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McKinney Homeless Assistance

• Shelter Plus Care
• Supportive Housing Programs
• Rural Leasing and Support
• Single Room Occupancy

PATH
Projects for Assistance with Transition from
Homelessness
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HOME Tenant-Based Assistance (TBA)

• Rental Assistance
• Security Deposits
• Six month terms for up to two years
• Participants receive case management

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What Fair Housing Means for People with
Disabilities
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law June 2006
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Community Supports

• Income and Health Resources
• Supportive Housing Services
• Community Resources

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Income and Health Resources

• SSI/SSDI Benefit Access
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• Oregon Health Plan
• Medicare
• Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB)
• Health Care Safety Net Clinics
• Employed People with Disabilities (EPD)
• Employment

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Benefits
Supplemental Security Income/Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
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Health Care
Oregon Health Plan
Medicare
QMB
Health Care Safety Net Clinics
Employed People with Disabilities
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Employment

• Vocational Rehabilitation Division
• Benefits Planning
• Ticket to Work
• Supported Employment

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Oregon State Medicaid Plan

• Oregon State Medicaid Plan/Mental Health Services
• Rehabilitation Option used to provide defined
  mental health service array.
• Personal Care Option used for foster home
  reimbursements and PCAs.

Oregon Health Plan
Psychiatric Long Term Care

• Extended Care Management Unit
• Psychiatric Security Review Board

• managed care
• capitated system

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Supportive Housing ServicesReimbursed through
Medicaid

• Case Management
• Skills Training
• Therapy
• Peer Delivered Services
• 20 Hour Personal Care
• Residential Personal Care

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Community Resources

• Ready to Rent
• Utility Resources
• Food Resources
• Transportation Resources
• Consumer Operated Programs
• Advocacy

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Ready to Rent

• Utility Resources
• LIEAP
• OEAP
• OTAP

• Food Resources
• Food Stamps
• Emergency Food Boxes/Community Meals
• Meals on Wheels

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Transportation
Public
Non-emergent medical transportation
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Consumer Operated Programs

• Advocacy
• CASU
• Governors Office
• NAMI
• OAC
• OCTA

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For More Information.

• Homes and Communities, U.S. Department of Housing
  and Urban Development, www.hud.gov
• Oregon Department of Human Services, Housing for
  Persons with Mental Illness,
• http//egov.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/housing.s
  html
• Corporation for Supported Housing, www.csh.org
• Association of Oregon Housing Authorities,
  www.oraoha.org
• Community Action Directors of Oregon,
• www.cado-oregon.org
• Oregon Housing and Community Services, Community
  Resources Division, www.oregon.gov/OHCS/CRD_Divisi
  onMain2.shtml
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration, Projects for Assistance in
  Transition from Homelessness,
• www.pathprogram.samhsa.gov