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 offer eligible defendants, who are veterans of the armed services with substance dependency or mental illness, a specialized judicial process that is coordinated with services specifically for veterans
What are Veteran Treatment Dockets?
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.
What is 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 program was designed to support and ensure housing stability across the commonwealth. The funding was created on March 27, 2020; and Virginia exhausted all the funding available for this program on Oct. 14, 2022.
What it is the VIRGINIA RENT RELIEF PROGRAM (RRP)?
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?
These 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 is Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)?
This is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States.
What is the American Red Cross?
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)?
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