Permanent Supportive Housing

Housing With Care

Housing with Care is THC’s permanent supportive housing program for homeless families in the District. THC provides stable permanent housing in scattered site locations across the District and wraparound supportive services for the families. THC’s Housing with Care currently serves 59 vulnerable families who need continual support to remain in affordable housing. Beginning in December 2008, THC’s Housing with Care 1 provides comprehensive case management for 20 families under Mayor Fenty’s Permanent Supportive Housing plan via a contract with DC’s Department of Human Services.  In March 2010, THC was assigned 20 additional families under this program.  Housing with Care 2 started operating in January 2009 and provides 19 units of scattered site permanent affordable housing in Wards 1, 4 and 5 for homeless families with a mental health, substance abuse, HIV-AIDs or other disabilities. Additional support from the William S. Abell Foundation, Fannie Mae, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing has been key in THC’s launching of this new program initiative.

THC’s wraparound supportive services includes a comprehensive approach to case management, coordinated by the case manager and supplemented by mental health and substance abuse counselors to provide essential counseling and therapy, a family services coordinator to assess and provide services to the children and the family unit, a housing coordinator to facilitate the landlord-tenant relationship, and an employment services coordinator to help the Housing with Care participant make steps towards gaining and sustaining employment and being a stable source of financial support for their families.

THC’s supportive services for its Housing with Care program is coordinated by a full time roving case manager who works under the supervision of THC’s program director. THC’s supportive services are designed to assure that participants receive services, provided on a non-sectarian basis, and are targeted to the following areas:

Job readiness, job search and interview, job maintenance and advancement skills
Independent living skills (budgeting, spending, household care)
Community living skills (participation, cooperation, pride, awareness, decision making, advocacy, action)
Development of family decision-making skills
Increased competence, confidence, and self-esteem
Substance abuse assessment and counseling
Youth services programs: child advocacy, counseling and therapy, substance abuse prevention and youth enrichment