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NAHC’s recommendations for increasing access to non-medical supportive services for PLWHA:
1. As cities and states deal with budget crises and ADAP waiting lists, less money is being set aside for supportive services. Supportive services data, Medicaid, Ryan White and HOPWA need to retain their flexibility to cover these vital supportive services.
2. HOPWA technical assistance is vital to the program. As TA provision is moved to a broader model, we need to make sure that HOPWA TA continues to be provided and is not lost in the big picture.
3. PLWHA should be included in special needs populations across mainstream programs, including Section 8, CDBG, HOME, etc.
4. HIV/AIDS housing…
117 votes9 comments · How can we increase access to non-medical supportive services for people living with HIV/AIDS? · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →we're looking into it :) ·
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(Admin, US Department of Housing & Urban Development)
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This idea has been selected for review and will receive a response from the HOPWA office in HUD!
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The largest barrier to accessing non-medical services is availability due to funding.
Each year we have seen funding levels drop for rural and even metropolitan areas in proportion to the need. Let's face it this country is in a housing crisis and a job crisis and an economic crisis all of these things have affected the amount of people we see for services and the amount of need for those services. Honestly, an employed person with insurance and no pre-existing clause has less of a need for supportive services than someone without employment, a $1500 a month mortgage, living on unemployment that always seems to run out, and who can't afford COBRA.…
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Encourage local jurisdictions to add more accessible housing units
More money for housing assistance and legislation against descrimination won't help unless their is enough accessible housing built to meet the demand. HUD should have some sort of stock plans for accessible rental units that can be incorporated as part of every market rate multifamily housing project. People in nursing homes can't be integrated into the community if there is no existing housing for them. Each and every multifamily project built from now on should have some accessible units built in and the law should require it. I am thinking of persons living with HIV/AIDS are subset, because they may…
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Create jobs for disabled HIVers. We need less services when we have a job.
We need fewer services when disabled folks have access to employment in our own HIV/AIDS organizations. Stop the institutional barriers to employment for disabled HIVers by mandating all organizations dedicate 25% of all salary dollars to positions that fit within earned income of SSDI.
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Use number of Hospitalizations/Emergency room visits as an indicator of quality of life
The more hospitalizations, the worse the quality of life overall. One way is interrogate the hospital records for persons treated who also had HIV/AIDS. If case management is in place for a geographic area, a baseline could be taken for each person for a certain time period. Then measures could be taken periodically to get an idea of whether things were getting better, worse or staying the same for a known population.
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hire more social workers so they are not so heavily loaded with work to where they are unable tohelp
hire more social workers so they are not so heavily loaded with work to where they are unable to help properly
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ICreate and use Triage partnerships
The most important port of entry to the kind of medical and social support services required are medical, supportive housing and social service support. Each Housing Authority should be required to participate or develop a such a triage services specifically targeted for public housing recipients.
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Require reliable and valid client satisfaction data with every grant submission.
I have seen considerable resources spent on developing standards of care, quality management guidelines, and even alliances such as the Ryan White Cross Part Collaborative. Yet, I have yet to see any results as demonstrated by client satisfaction data which could identify barriers to remaining in care, and areas for future improvement.
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Transitional housing to provide individuals with all services needed for them to access all needed s
Transitional housing to provide individuals with all services needed for them to move toward compliance and independence resulting in permanent housing.
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