| Heading Home Minnesota is a statewide initiative to prevent and end homelessness. Heading Home Minnesota has developed a Roadmap to End Homelessness. |
Heading Home Olmsted- A Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
Olmsted County is one of several counties across the state which has developed local strategies to end homelessness. The vision of the Heading Home Olmsted Plan is a community where all persons have options for safe temporary or emergency housing and choices for a permanent place to live. |
We seek to prevent and end long-term homelessness in Olmsted County by developing local housing and supportive services that use evidence-based models and combine public and private resources. |
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Heading Home Olmsted has resulted in the following supportive housing collaborations for disabled individuals and transitional housing for ex-offenders.
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The Francis a 17-unit efficiency apartment building in downtown Rochester that serves adults diagnosed with a mental illness or substance use disorder who meet the definition of chronic long-term homeless. The Olmsted County Housing and Redevelopment Authority (OCHRA) and Olmsted County Adult Services partner to provide supportive housing at The Francis.
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The Transitional Living Center serves to prevent homelessness and improve the chance that offenders can integrate back into the community successfully. |
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- Provides short term housing for ex-offenders being released from prison or the local detention center.
- Ex-offenders being admitted to the facility are those who have no other alternative for housing and would be homeless.
- Serves as a landing spot until these offenders can find employment and more permanent housing.
- The maximum stay at the Transitional Living Center is 90 days.
- Residents must have 40 hours of structured activity which includes finding employment.
- The DFO agent supervising each resident makes sure the resident is looking for employment and housing so they can transition from the facility into the community.
- While at the facility, residents must contribute to the cost of their stay. Depending on their release status and their source of income, this may be a reduced fee for the first month, but after 30 days, all residents are expected to pay rent of $450 a month.
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Coming in Fall of 2011:
Silver Creek Corner will be a 40 bed supportive housing facility which will house homeless individuals who are chronic inebriates. This project is collaboration between the Olmsted County HRA, Center City Housing Corporation and Olmsted County Adult and Family Services. Capital Funding for the project has been secured through Minnesota Housing. The project will be located at the Olmsted County Campus, north of the 2117 building. Center City Housing Corp. will act as developer and property management for the project. Olmsted County Adult Services will provide housing support and case management to the individuals residing there.
The project is modeled after the New San Marco, in Duluth and the Rivercrest Apartments in St. Cloud, similar successful projects developed by Center City Housing Corporation. |
In the JAMA study, published in April, 2009 University of Washington public health researchers monitored 95 homeless chronic alcoholics before and after they moved into a supportive housing project, and compared them with 39 others waiting to get in.
Before the supportive house, the median cost of each of the 95 was $4,000 a month. After a year in the wet house the cost per person dropped to $960, mostly for housing. |