1. FI Conference October 12th 2017 Jennifer Teich MA, John Maltby MS
What is housing navigation and how can it help fiscal intermediaries and the people they support?
FI Conference
October 12th 2017
Jennifer Teich MA, John Maltby MS

2. Why Housing Navigation?- Change
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Congregated, Segregated services are no longer financially viable
Demographics – aging & “PWDD”
The Law – Olmstead and Money Follows the Person, ACA,
The Regs. HHS & Person Centeredness, CMS & Waiver Rules, HCBS Settings rules.
Best Practices and Research
Labor Force

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A world of change
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Inversion of the funding flows
Employment First
“Secular” options
Integration & Collaboration with other disabilities
Assistive technology
Housing is Hard!
Who knows this stuff in your agency?

4. What is Housing Navigation?
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Working with an individual and their family and Circle
What do they want for the long term?
What do they bring to the process?
Social Capital
Financial capital
Where do they want to live?
With whom?
How will it work financially?
Create and implement their plan
Sustain their housing

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The Course
NYSACRA Learning Institute
Course at graduate level, including ;
Person Centeredness
Benefits
Protected Earnings and Protected Savings
How housing is created
Ownership vs rental
Housing ownership legal structures
Who with? Where?
Creation of a Housing Plan

6. How does this Help Fis and the people they support?
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Alignment of interests, individual, family, brokers, FI.
Practical realistic help
Economical means to housing
Sustaining housing
Reduction of time spent on housing planning and execution
Networking of services
Alignment with Managed care

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Funding Sources
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Self Direction via broker
Community Habilitation
Direct
Indirect
OTPS
As a Waiver Service?

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Resources
NYSACRA Learning Institute
Regional Housing Collaborative
Super Regions
Housing Navigator community
Housing Resource Center