Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Project HOME: (Housing, Outreach, and Meaningful Engagement) - The Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services will implement Project HOME (Housing, Outreach, and Meaningful Engagement) to provide comprehensive and integrated services for individuals and families with youth with substance use disorders or co-occurring disorders who are experiencing homelessness in Hancock County, Ohio. Subpopulations will include: young adults (18-24 years old), LGBTQ+, and veterans. Hancock County is home to about 75,000 people, with more than half (about 40,000) residing in the “micropolitan” county seat of Findlay. It is a mostly rural area with a population density of about 140 residents per square mile. The overall unemployment rate is 3.7% but depending on where one lives in Hancock County, the rate is as high as 9%. About 1 in every 5 resident (20.9%) spends more than 30% of their income on housing or rent; overall, 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Almost 15% of adults in the county reported having 4 or more adverse childhood events and about 3% (about 2,280) residents said they had someone who is homeless living with them. Project HOME will expand and enhance a local implementation of a community infrastructure that integrates behavioral health treatment, peer support, recovery support services, and linkages to sustainable permanent housing. Project HOME will utilize evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), motivational interviewing, intensive case management (ICM), community reinforcement approach (A-CRA), peer supports, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction strategies. The proposed Project will establish a sustainable 7-days a week /365 days per year low-barrier shelter to address the gap in much needed services. The overarching goal of Project HOME is to serve as a point of access to direct services for individuals with SUDs or CODs who are experiencing homelessness. The goals of the project are: 1) Expand outreach and meaningful engagement with individuals and families who are homeless and have SUD/COD; 2) Implement evidence-based practices across City Mission, including the fully operational low-barrier shelter; and 3) Increase access and warm hand-offs to comprehensive community resources to low-barrier shelter guests, including long-term stable housing, BH treatment, and recovery support services. Measurable objectives over the project period will include: a) conduct engagement activities with 60 homeless individuals and 8 families; b) provide telehealth/telebehavioral health services to 75 individuals; c) refer 75 individuals to recovery/transitional housing; d) refer 280 individuals to peer recovery support services; e) decrease jail admission among GPRA participants by 15%; f) improve service satisfaction among GPRA participants by 80%; g) decrease self-reported substance use among GPRA participants at by 10%; h) improve housing stability among GPRA participants by 70%. Project HOME aims to serve 500 individuals through direct and indirect services over the 5-year project period; we will target 40 individuals in year 1, 60 in years 2-5 for a total of 280 unique individuals who receive direct services.
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