Sunday, April 27, 2025
4/27/2025
ASAC Stabilizing Homeless to Achieve Recovery Project(SHARP) - The proposed project, Stabilizing Homeless to Achieve Recovery Project (SHARP) is specifically designed to assess, assist, stabilize, and monitor homeless persons and families with SUD and COD to access and achieve permanent housing status. This project will involve each of the three intended activities identified in the FOA: 1) behavioral health and other recovery-oriented services; 2) coordination of housing and services that support the implementation and/or enhance the long-term sustainability of integrated community systems that provide permanent housing and supportive services to the target population; and 3) efforts to engage and connect patients who experience SUDs or CODs to enrollment resources for health insurance, Medicaid, and mainstream benefits programs (e.g. Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), etc.) Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) is Iowa’s largest substance use disorder treatment and prevention provider, serving five counties in eastern Iowa. ASAC operates primary residential, outpatient, and transitional housing treatment services. ASAC also operates two permanent housing projects: The Way Home LLC and ND Housing LLC. The agency has established relationships with other permanent housing providers across eastern Iowa. While many of the necessary individual services for successful recovery (i.e. housing, substance use disorder and mental health treatment, employment training/assistance, healthcare, childcare, etc.) are available within our communities, point of contact coordination of those services is needed. SHARP will formalize and enhance the process for assessing service and housing needs, will assist in removing access barriers, will coordinate service provision and utilization, and will provide ongoing monitoring and support for participants. Similar to traditional case management services, the Housing Navigators proposed under this project will work directly with SHARP participants to reduce repeat incidents of homelessness, to stabilize them in permanent housing, to increase Recovery Capital, to facilitate/monitor access to and utilization of treatment and mainstream resources and to increase employment and income levels. The Primary Goals and Objectives of SHARP are: Goal 1: Reduce homelessness among individuals (including youth) who experience homelessness and have SUDs or CODs, and/or families who experience homelessness with one or more family members that have an SUD or COD. Objective: 75% of SHARP participants will secure permanent housing and maintain housing at follow-up as measured by living situation on the GRPA intake assessment and GRPA follow-up assessment. Objective: 75% of SHARP participants will state that their housing situation has improved as measured by client satisfaction surveys. Goal 2. Increase access, utilization and coordination of appropriate treatment services to homeless who have SUDs or CODs, and/or families who experience homelessness with one or more family members that have an SUD or COD to improve heath and well-being of clients. Objective: 75% of SHARP Participants will remain engaged and/or complete recommended Care Plan services as measured by project evaluation. Objective: SHARP participants will decrease their substance use by 50% as measured by GRPA intake and follow-up questions about substance use. Objective: SHARP Participants will increase Assessment of Recovery Capital (ARC) by 25% from project enter to follow-up as measured by ARC at intake and at follow-up. Goal 3: Increase access, utilization and coordination of appropriate mainstream and wrap around support services to homeless who have SUDs or CODs, and/or families who experience homelessness with one or more family members that have an SUD or COD. Objective: 100% of SHARP participants will be provided assistance in finding permanent housing as measured by Housing Navigator tracking data.
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