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rapid re-housing

In May 2007, Family Service of the Piedmont, Open Door Ministries, and the Greensboro Housing Coalition formed a partnership from a 26 month grant for $644,000 received from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service and a $50,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro for a pilot project to create Housing Support Teams. The Housing Support Team aims to move eligible participants into permanent housing and help them to maintain it, reduce hospital, emergency room, and jail admissions, build the capacity of enhanced service providers, public systems, and community groups to provide housing support to homeless disabled persons and document the cost/benefit of utilizing housing first.

pdf icon Housing Support Team Brochure

Target Population
In order to qualify for the Housing Support Team program you must be an individual experiencing chronic homelessness and identified as a “high use” repeater (at least 4 episodes in the past three years or one year continuous in various public institutions such as the psychiatric units, emergency rooms and/ or jails.

Priority is given to individuals who have:
• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective disorder
• Bi-polar Disorder
• Other psychotic disorders
• Organic brain syndrome
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Co-existing mental health and substance abuse disorders

pdf icon The Cost Effectiveness of Housing Support Teams: The Experiences of Persons Enrolled In the First Three Months by Jennifer Vaughn, Adam Walsh, and D. F. Duncan Jordan Institute for Families UNC-CH School of Social Work Chapel Hill, NC December 2008

For more information please contact:

Adria Smith
Housing Support Team
Family Service of the Piedmont
902 Bonner Drive
Jamestown, 27282
(phone) (336) 889-6105 x 1127
(fax) (336) 387-9167
E-mail: adria.smith@familyservice-piedmont.org

 

Guilford County’s Housing First Programs

 

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