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Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field

This is one of two reports examining the use of Medicaid to cover services for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, particularly in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). It describes existing practices in the field of communities currently serving homelessness and formerly homeless individuals Medicaid beneficiaries.
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Medicaid Financing for Services in Supportive

Medicaid Financing for Services in Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless People: Current Practices and Opportunities

This Issue Paper describes the ways that Medicaid is being used now and might be used in the future under provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to serve chronically homeless people. [67 PDF pages]
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Public Housing Agencies and Permanent Supportive

Public Housing Agencies and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless People

This Issue Paper looks at innovative ways that public housing agencies are supporting housing for formerly homeless people in the communities the researchers visited. [29 PDF pages]
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Health, Housing, and Service Supports for Three

Health, Housing, and Service Supports for Three Groups of People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness

This Issue Paper describes three subgroups of the people experiencing chronic homelessness, and the services and housing configurations currently supporting them. [48 PDF pages]
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Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically

Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically Homeless People

This Issue Paper describes innovative approaches to establishing SSI eligibility. [33 PDF pages]
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Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless: Literature Synthesis and Environmental Scan

This report reflects existing published and unpublished literature on permanent supportive housing (PSH) for people who are chronically homeless. It has a particular focus on the role that Medicaid currently plays in covering the costs of the supportive services that help people keep their housing and improve their health and quality of life. In a
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Findings from a Study of the SSI/SSDI Outreach,

Findings from a Study of the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Initiative

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) programs provide critical income support for those who meet eligibility requirements. The SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative aims to improve access to SSI/SSDI benefits for individuals who are homeless through a multi-pronged strategy desi
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Potential Analyses with Homelessness Data: Ideas

Potential Analyses with Homelessness Data: Ideas for Policymakers and Researchers

This short report is part of a study entitled Homelessness Data for HHS Mainstream Programs , that explored the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experiencing homelessness:  Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for
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Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF

Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs

This Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs is part of a study entitled Homelessness Data for HHS Mainstream Programs , that explored the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experien
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Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

This study explores the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experiencing homelessness: Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Interviews were conducted with TANF and Medicaid directors in all
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Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness

Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has developed the Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness to outline a set of goals and strategies that will guide the Department's activities related to homelessness over the next several years. This strategic action plan serves as the next iteration of the strategic action plan released in 2003,
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Evaluability Assessment of Discharge Planning and

Evaluability Assessment of Discharge Planning and the Prevention of Homelessness

This report presents the results of an evaluability assessment of discharge/transition planning as a homeless prevention strategy in four types of institutional and custodial settings including: adult in-patient psychiatric hospitals, foster care independent living programs, residential treatment programs for adults with substance abuse disorders,
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Core Performance Indicators for Homeless-Serving

Core Performance Indicators for Homeless-Serving Programs Administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report explores the feasibility of developing a core set of performance measures across four HHS programs that focus on service delivery to homeless persons. The report also explores the extent to which mainstream service-delivery programs supported by HHS, i.e., those not specifically targeted to homelessness, could generate performance meas
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Potential Analyses with Homelessness Data:

Potential Analyses with Homelessness Data: Ideas for Policymakers and Researchers

Potential Analyses with Homelessness Data: Ideas for Policymakers and Researchers Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Winter 2009 Prepared by: Michelle Wood and Jill Khadduri Abt A
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Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF

Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs

Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Winter 2009 Prepared by: Tom Albanese, Michelle Wood, and Brooke Spellman A
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Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in Health and Human Services Mainstream Programs Final Report Winter 2009 Prepared for: Office of Human Services Policy Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Health Resources and Services Administration U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Prepared by: Michelle Wood, Lauren Dunton,
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Evaluation of the Collaborative Initiative to

Evaluation of the Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness

Prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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NOTES

Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically Homeless People. Notes

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REFERENCES

Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically Homeless People. References

Baumohl, J., J.A. Swartz, and R.D. Muck (eds.). 2003. The multi-site study of the termination of Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addicts and alcoholics. Contemporary Drug Problems , 30(1-2): 1-537.
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically Homeless People. 4. Conclusions and Implications

SSI is extremely important for chronically homeless people now and will continue to be so even after the vast majority of chronically and other homeless people become eligible for Medicaid in 2014. SSI provides income that lets people contribute to rent, thereby greatly increasing the odds that they will become stably housed.

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