PSH BASICS
30 percent of your total income.
What you will pay in rent (if you meet qualifications).
If you damage your apartment in any way, what should you do immediately.
Call the Landlord
True or False: You must be adjudicated unconditional release before you move to the community under PSH.
False
Ability to attend medical and behavioral treatment needs
Ability to have some level of decision making & judgement
Ability to sustain themselves for foreseeable future
Having the ability to cook, clean and take care of your surroundings.
A good indication that you will be independent to live in the community.
What has hands but can't clap?
A clock
The term for the "average rent" for an apartment in a zip code.
Fair Market Rent
The best way to put out this type of fire is to turn off heat source and immediately cover it with metal lid or baking sheet.
Grease Fire
True or False: You must participate in at least 1 Gateway service to qualify for PSH.
True
Demonstrate independence while at Gateway.
An important factor in determining readiness to move to the community under PSH.
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
Footsteps
People who have a diagnosis of a mental illness who come from the state psychiatric hospitals.
Typically, the individuals who qualify for PSH.
You wake up to find a flood on the kitchen floor. What is the first think you do?
go to your main breaker box and shut off the electricity to the kitchen/affected area.
Do not wade into standing water to reach the breaker box
Ture of False: You can save a lot on your rent if you get a roommate under PSH.
False. You will pay the same. The PSH program benefits but you will still pay 30% of your income.
Communicating with these individuals means that you have independent living skills.
Case manager, CSB
What has a head, a tail, is brown but has no legs?
A penny
To reduce homelessness
The purpose of PSH
You see mold growing on the walls in the bathroom. What should you do?
Document and Notify Your Landlord Immediately
Share all of your financial information, conduct monthly checks, must agree with annual re-assessment of eligibility, must sign acknowledgement of receipt of program rules.
Eligibility Requirements
An understanding or awareness of one's own diagnosis and symptoms, emotional state, and the root causes of one's behaviors and difficulties.
Insight
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water but no fish, What am I?
A map
The income limit (1 person) to qualify for the PSH program.
$39,800
What is the lead cause of home fires in the US?
Smoking
This is not a factor when determining eligibility for PSH, but is a factor for the apartment leasing agent?
Credit Score
A WRAP or Relapse Prevention Plan
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"