Documentation
The process to establish rapport, and gain an accurate, thorough picture of a veteran/individual’s situation, strengths and needs, in order to improve the veteran/individual’s current situation and meet existing and future needs and goals collaboratively.
What is a Needs Assessment?
This is the preferred contact type for peer support cases.
What is face to face meetings?
A collaborative program between HUD and the VA that combines HUD housing vouchers with VA supportive services to help Veterans who are homeless and their families find and sustain permanent housing with case management.
What is HUD VASH?
This provides free confidential 24/7 support operated by Veterans Affairs by calling 1-800-273-8255 or texting 838255.
What is the Veteran's Crisis Hotline?
These are the counties that have current active Veteran Treatment Dockets in the Northern region.
What are Fairfax and Prince William Counties?
You would use these Service Plan Categories when working with a veteran seeking financial assistance for utilities, counseling services, and employment services.
What are Supportive Services-Housing, Behavioral Health, and Supportive Services-Employment?
This term means the ability to share personal lived experiences to underscore the truth that improvements in health, wellness and quality of life are possible.
What is Self Disclosure?
Defined by HUD as when a person has lived in a shelter, safe haven, or place not meant for human habitation for 12 continuous months or for 4 separate occasions in the last three years (must total 12 months), most often coupled with a disability but not necessary.
What is Chronic Homelessness?
You can request this with a SF180 from the National Archives; or if discharged generally after 2002 (varies by branch) can request via EBenefits; and there is an option for expedition if homeless.
How does one assist a veteran in obtaining a DD214?
This program allows SSVF organizations through County Continuum of Care (CoC’s) and other designated agencies in the community to use VSF funds for veterans in need of housing funds accessed directly through Assistant Director Matt Leslie.
What is the DVS Homeless Sub Fund?
Entering this piece of PHI onto a Release of Information will increase the security sensitivity of the document and should never be included.
What is the SSN?
This is a term used when a peer support client is unable to move forward or create/complete goals as a result of their barriers.
What is "stuck"?
This type of homelessness assistance is primarily what local SSVF’s provide via short-term rental assistance and services and to help people obtain housing quickly, increase self-sufficiency, and remain housed with Housing First Principles’ Core Components: housing identification, rent and move-in assistance, and case management and services.
What is Rapid ReHousing?
This resource type includes organizations such as Melwood Operation Tohidu , Boulder Crest, Returning Home, and Outward Bound; and focus on post traumatic growth.
What are therapeutic retreats?
These are the two free retreats offered by Virginia Veteran and Family Support for veterans and their families that focus on enriching relationships through communication skills.
What are Mission Healthy Relationships (MHR) and Mission Healthy Families (MHF)?
These are the only two attachments that should be uploaded to a CMS Client profile.
What are Release of Information’s (ROI’s) and Behavioral Health Checklists? (DD214’s and other docs with PHI should never be uploaded)
This is the maximum VPS specific caseload for peer support cases (can have additional Resource cases) unless authorized otherwise by the Regional Director.
What is 10?
The four Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF’s) that cover Northern Virginia region and provide case management and supportive services to low income veterans to prevent the imminent loss of a Veteran’s home or identify a new, more suitable housing situation for the individual and his or her family; or to rapidly re-house Veterans and their families who are homeless and might remain homeless without this assistance.
What are Friendship Place, Volunteers of America, Housing Counseling Services and Operation Renewed Hope?
Some examples can include any of the following: Synergy Float (float therapy); Bridle Paths (equine therapy); Workhouse Arts Center (comedy stand up/ writing); Team RWB (physical social activities); MK9 (service dogs); and Project Healing Waters (fly fishing ect).
What are some alternative behavioral health supports other than counseling?
These are the two ongoing training curriculums provided by VVFS to community partners/law enforcement that include education about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and military culture?
What are Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) and Military Cultural Competency (MCC) trainings?
This is the SOP Deadline for entering a needs assessment into CMS after intake/meeting.
What is within 2 business days?
The abbreviation WRAP stands for this.
What is Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
This type of housing is targeted to individuals/families with chronic illnesses, disabilities, mental health issues, or substance use disorders who have experienced long-term or repeated homelessness and provides long-term rental assistance and supportive services, often within Counties.
What is Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)?
Operates as a separate 501c3 program as the 7th "service line" of VDVS where 100% of donations are given to veterans to provide supplemental funding through VDVS when state and federal resources are not available.
What is the Veteran Service Foundation (VSF)?
These are the 6 service lines of VDVS; AND the location of the 3 DVS Cemeteries?
Benefits, VVFS, Education/Transition/Employment/Women Veterans, Cemeteries, Care Centers and War Memorial. Cemeteries are located: Suffolk, Amelia, and Dublin.