Community Supports Resources

Help with getting housing. This may include help with:

• Looking for a place to live or housing.
• How to apply for housing.
• Making a housing support plan.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Lack stable housing and have health needs.
• Are receiving Transitional Rent.
• Are listed for housing help through the local homeless Coordinated Entry System, or similar system.

Help with keeping your housing once you've moved in.

This may include support with budgeting, timely rent payments, and understanding lease agreement rights and responsibilities.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Lack stable housing and have health needs.
• Are receiving Transitional Rent.
• Are listed for housing help through the local homeless Coordinated Entry System, or a system like it.

Help with getting housing. This includes:

• Security deposits to get a lease.
• Deposit and first month’s coverage of utilities.
• Items like an air conditioner, heater, or other things that help with health needs.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Lack stable housing and have health needs.
• Are receiving Transitional Rent.
• Are listed for housing help through the local homeless Coordinated Entry System, or a system like it.

Help with temporary rental assistance. This includes:

• Help with rent/temporary housing.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Have a serious health condition.
• Lack stable housing.
• Are exiting a facility (e.g. jail, hospital, foster care).

Short-term housing care for those who need to heal from injury or illness.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Are recovering from injury or illness and are experiencing homelessness.

Short-term relief given to caregivers of those who need care or support on a short-term basis.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Live in a place that limits your daily activity.
• Are needing a caregiver to provide most of your support.
• Need caregiver relief to avoid being placed in a nursing home or someplace like it.

A place where you can keep getting care for medical mental health or substance use disorder needs.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Are leaving a medical center and still recovering.
• Lack stable housing.
• Have a serious health condition.

A place where you can get help with alcohol or drugs rather than being taken to an emergency department or jail.

You may be able to get services if you are:

• Aged 18 and older and are drunk.
• Awake, calm, and not acting in a harmful way.

Changes to a home to get rid of harmful asthma triggers.

You may be able to get services if:

• You had a home check for asthma triggers in the past 12 months through the Asthma Preventive Services (APS) program.
• The check showed what changes are needed to help you with your asthma and explained how those changes would help you.
• You still live in the same home where the check was done.
• All of these are true, the check counts as proof that the asthma help is needed.

Programs given to help you learn the skills needed to live in home-like settings.

They can include training on use of public transportation or how to prepare meals.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Are experiencing homelessness.
• Are no longer homeless and have entered housing in the last 24 months.
• Are at-risk of being homeless.

Changes to a home for your health and safety.

Also, changes that allow you to function freely in the home. These may include ramps and grab bars.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Are at-risk for being placed into a nursing home.

Meals that are delivered to your home that are prepared and cooked based on your nutrition-sensitive health condition and diet needs.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Have nutrition-sensitive health conditions (e.g. cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and more).
• Are assessed by a registered dietitian or other appropriate clinical professional.

Services given to help you move out of a nursing home to community settings, like an assisted living facility.

This can also be services to keep you from being placed in a nursing home.

You may be able to get services if you:

• Have lived 60+ days in a nursing home.
• Are willing to live in an assisted living facility (a place to help you with your daily medical needs) as an option to a nursing home.
• Can live safely in an assisted living facility with support.
• Want to stay in the community.
• Are willing and able to live safely in an assisted living facility with support.
• Are now getting nursing home services or meet the lowest standard to get nursing home services.

Services provided to help you with your daily living needs, such as:

• Bathing
• Dressing
• Housecleaning
• Grocery shopping

You may be able to get services if you are:

• At-risk for being admitted to a hospital or placed in a nursing home.
• A person that needs day-to-day help and have no other support system.
• Approved for In-Home Supportive Services.