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RECOVERY NEEDS A HOME

RECOVERY NEEDS A HOME. North Carolina Drug Treatment Courts An Active Community Housing Partner. With no home, the challenges facing a person struggling with addiction are significantly compounded. Housing is a part of survival.

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RECOVERY NEEDS A HOME

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  1. RECOVERY NEEDS A HOME North Carolina Drug Treatment Courts An Active Community Housing Partner

  2. With no home, the challenges facing a person struggling with addiction are significantly compounded.

  3. Housing is a part of survival • Without a home, the addict often finds him or herself seeking help from the most recent people in his/her life. • Most communities, have waiting lists at local shelters and housing programs, resulting in few immediate beds available. • Drug Court clients will need to seek some sort of shelter, food, water, showers, and protection from the elements during the interim. • This type of survival can come with high costs, including exposure to drugs, alcohol, criminal activity, etc., potentially resulting in hopelessness and relapse.

  4. So what can be done 4 Steps To Partnering 1. Research the existing types of shelter beds, types of Transitional/Permanent Supportive Housing Programs, and number of units that are currently operate in your community. This should also include those programs target population, program requirements, and admission policies. 2. Learn the language of housing and the funding streams connected with existing housing programs. Meet with each provider, getting to know more about their programs, requirements, and target populations. Join your local Continuum of Care. To benefit from local housing resources you need to be at the table where the work is done to provide community housing resources.

  5. 3. While reviewing current funding sources look for opportunities that impact your DTC and new resources for your community housing partners. Local Mental Health Entity City & County General Funds Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness(PATH) Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) HUD – SHP Supportive Housing Programs Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Community Foundations Corporate Foundations Private Resources

  6. 4. What do you need: Carefully review the housing need of your DTC How many potential beds will you need. What types of beds, what supportive housing services, etc.. What do you bring: Write a narrative to disperse to your housing providers informing them of all you bring to the table as a DTC, supervision, strict program for participants, etc. Put it together and market your DTC to your housing providers, show them how partnering with you is a win win for all.

  7. Its hard work but work that must be done The Drug Treatment Court Team is more than a group of people coming together to review participants progress. We are catalysts for community collaboration. If it were easy, and all the resources where already present, DTC’s would not have been needed.

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