Interim Housing (IH) projects assist 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 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: Jessica Smith, Housing and Homeless Project Coordinator

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Interim Housing Providers

Bert Nash Mental Health Center

200 Maine Street, Suite A
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-830-1899

Elizabeth Layton Center

204 East 15^th Street
Ottawa, KS 66067

Johnson County

6000 Lamar Avenue, Suite 130
Mission, KS 66202
913-826-4200

Wyandot Center for Behavioral HealthCare, Inc.

1301 N. 47th Street
Kansas City, KS 66102
913-287-0007