General Terms
Preventing homelessness for a high-risk population before it occurs. An example could be providing immediate housing.
What is primary prevention?
Programs to prevent the path from being a renter to homeless.
What is cash assistance (eviction prevention)?
Where the Veterans Health Administration administers a two-item screen for current homelessness and imminent risk annually to every veteran who comes in for outpatient services.
What is universal screening for veterans?
Are at a large risk for homelessness once they turn 18 and age out.
What are resources for youth leaving foster care?
Early detection and cure of a problem when it has already occurred. This could include shelter diversion and rapid re-housing.
What is secondary prevention?
Services include case management, day care, mental health and substance abuse services, domestic violence services, education, vocational training, and job placement.
What are community-based services?
Can assist poor tenants in reducing their possibility of eviction to landlords who have legal counsel.
What is legal representation in housing courts?
Designed to improve access to benefits for people who have qualifying disabilities and are at risk of homelessness. i.e SSI, SSDI
What is the SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach Access and Recovery) project?
Reducing the undesirable consequences of a condition. This could include soup kitchens and winter shelter programs.
What is tertiary prevention?
Had the largest impact on preventing homelessness for families considered high risk. An example is TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families).
What are permanent housing subsidies?
Evidence for this approach is weaker as it does not prove that people who received this help were not evicted.
What is landlord-tenant mediation?
Focuses on the reintegration of the previously incarcerated with co-occurring disorders into the community. It assesses needs, plans, identifies community/correctional programs to meet those needs, and coordinate.
What is the APIC Model?
To be successful, preventing homelessness before it happens for people at high risk must be both __ and __.
What is effective and efficient?
Its primary focus is to reduce re-hospitalizations and chronic homelessness for individuals with serious mental illnesses. Workers follow these individuals from institutions to the community, help them establish ties, and then transfer care.
What is critical time intervention?
Program that provided a permanent fixed subsidy ?( i.e $500 per month for a one bedroom)
What is Project Independence?
What is RAFT (Residential Assistance for Families in transition)?