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Urban Initiatives: Housing Ex-Offenders

Urban Initiatives: Housing Ex-Offenders. Presented by Community Housing Network (CHN) Kaiser Jones, Vanitia Turner, Mike Tynan and Loretta Warren. Community Housing Network.

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Urban Initiatives: Housing Ex-Offenders

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  1. Urban Initiatives: Housing Ex-Offenders Presented by Community Housing Network (CHN) Kaiser Jones, Vanitia Turner, Mike Tynan and Loretta Warren

  2. Community Housing Network Mission: Community Housing Network, Inc. provides safe affordable rental housing and linkage to supportive services for people with disabilities and other special needs such as homelessness. CHN serves as a developer, owner and property manger, and facilitates access to rent subsidies and private housing.

  3. Vital Partnerships • Community mental health agencies • V.A. • Emergency shelters • Other governmental and non-profit agencies • The Benefit Bank

  4. Other Supportive Housing Providers in Columbus • NCR – The Commons at Grant • Maryhaven – The Commons at Chantry • YMCA (2) • YWCA • RLPTI • Southeast Inc.

  5. Housing Models Recovery Housing • Early recovery • Relapse tolerant Scattered Site Housing • No site based services • Widely scattered, low density clusters Stages of Change Housing • 24/7 monitored entry • Engagement based

  6. Housing of Ex-Offenders • Already in each type of housing • Including some sex offenders • Excluding some arsonists, some felonies • CHN tenant selection policy • In the above programs must fit criteria of homelessness (HUD, RL)

  7. Housing of Ex-Offenders:The Stages of Change Model Stages Processes Techniques “Changing for Good” By: Prochaska, Norcross, and DiClemente

  8. Re-entry, Phase I Initiative of ODRC, ODMH, ADAMH Partnership of CHN and Southeast Tenant must be SMD Re-entry, Phase II Initiative of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, ODRC Tenant does not have to be SMD Housing of Ex-Offenders

  9. Housing of Ex-Offenders:Challenges • Avoiding high risk areas • Obtaining SSI • Medication compliance

  10. Housing of Ex-Offenders:Challenges (cont.) • No income (no clothes, no laundry money, no food, no furniture, etc.) • Rent not including utilities • Health insurance for non-psych medications • Lengthy waits to get into MH system

  11. Housing of Ex-Offenders:Sex Offenders

  12. Employment for Ex-Offenders • Current lists of employers • Locating and educating employers • Tax credits • Bonding issues • Job preparation • Job training in prison – for prison • Simple, basic, but necessary for this population

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