Creating Supportive Housing
Initiatives
National Association of Counties
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Recruitment, Placement and Retention
June 8, 2012
Just In Reach Pilot
Partners:
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Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
Volunteers of America – housing
experience
Amity Foundation
Goodwill Industries
Union Rescue Mission/Eimago
Tarzana Treatment Center
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Just In Reach
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Provides comprehensive support services and
linkages to housing for individuals
The program focuses on those who have
been in jail three times within the past three
years and homeless three times within the
past five years.
Twenty-five percent (25%) of those served
meet the HUD definition of chronic
homelessness
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
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Population: 18,000 – 22,000 inmates. 10% are
homeless
Community Transition Unit
– Established in 2001 as reentry planning unit. Goal
to break the cycle of recidivism by creating quality
reentry plans for inmates.
– Funded by the Inmate Welfare Fund.
– 2006, the CTU’s focus shifted to homeless
inmates.
– 18 Custody Assistants act as case managers for
the inmates.
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Funding
 $1.5M Homeless Prevention
Initiative
 CSH $250,000
Success:
 122 permanently housed
 33% recidivism rate – 77% is
general population rate
 84% Housing Retention
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Services (Recruitment):
– Case management – begins in jail and
continues upon release and into PSH
– Legal Advocacy & Diversion
– Employment and Housing groups both in
jail
– Mentoring - Second Chance Act Mentoring
grant. Coordinator provides in-reach
assessment
– Benefits Advocacy – CTU and case
manager (ID and GR)
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Services:
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Benefits Advocacy – case manager (SSI)
Legal Advocacy (parole)
Temporary Housing (dry & wet)
Employment Assistance
Drug and Alcohol Treatment – residential
and outpatient
– Linkages to community services: Mental
Health Services, DV, schools
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Services – Housing Placement:
– Housing Needs Assessment
– Assistance in conducting searches
– Housing Workshops (skills building –
applications, what to look for in an
apartment and community, negotiating with
landlord)
– Move in Assistance – (deposits, furniture,
linen, dishes, etc.)
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Services – Housing Retention:
– Regular Home Visits (housing staff, mentor
and/or case manager)
– JIR celebrations
– Client/Tenant/Landlord/Employer Events
– Family Services
– Phone Calls
– JIR Community
– Flex funds
Just In Reach Pilot 2008-2010
Housing Resources:
– Private Landlords – Landlord Advisory
Board helped to recruit others
– Permanent Supportive Housing Providers
– Affordable Housing Providers
– VASH
Just In Reach Project
Goal: an additional 44 housed
Partners:
 VOA
 Amity Foundation
 Walden House
Funding:
$200,000 – CSH
$150,000 – County Supervisor
$350,000 - LASD
Just In Reach Expansion & AB109
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2011 realignment plan shifts
responsibility and funding for
numerous programs from state to
local levels.
Realigned non-violent, non-serious,
non-sex felons being sentenced to
county facilities
Due to prison overcrowding, 6000 to
be released, 1800 homeless
Just In Reach Expansion & AB109
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Community Transition Unit
expanding:
18 to 25 staff
FQHC to be housed in Unit
Plans to align public and private funds
to take Just In Reach to scale
Contact Info:
Lou Anne White
[email protected]
213-623-4342 Ext. 13