Interim Housing (IH) projects assists homeless persons experiencing Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who may also have a co-occurring Substance Use Disorder (SUD) or youth who are 18 to 21 years of age with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). SMI is defined as a diagnosable mental, behavioral or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to cause serious functional impairment in an individual's major life activities.
Interim Housing projects are short-term (up to nine months), project-based housing that provides immediate community-based housing for persons who are homeless with an emphasis on those who are homeless and being discharged from inpatient or residential mental health or substance use treatment facility (e.g., a state psychiatric hospital (SPH), nursing facility for mental health (NFMH), SUD facility or community hospital inpatient psychiatric program).
The goal of the IH grant is to provide immediate community-based housing to prevent discharging individuals from inpatient or residential mental health or substance use treatment facilities to homeless shelters or to street homelessness.
IH projects shall demonstrate a plan to assist participants with expeditiously obtaining permanent housing and resources to sustain permanent housing (SOAR and/or employment services).
Program Contact: Erin Olson, Housing and Homeless Project Coordinator