Important new housing options for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.

Please share with other advocates.

Tony

Here are this year’s dates for those interested in creating the additional option of Supportive
Housing for those persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities with a giant finale on
November 18 when all groups come and speak to members of state government about what
they can create and how the state can partner with them to take advantage of new and
existing housing finance resources:

  1. The Supportive Housing Institute – Sept 10 &  11, Oct 14 & 15, Nov 17 & 18 – This is
    the traditional CSH Supportive Housing Institute shortened to six full days of training for
    forming a team or developing and teaching a team to develop a specific project. The
    Institute is targeted for developers and service providers (potentially led by families or
    self-advocates) in understanding and developing ways to partner together or create a
    supportive housing project using public money. The Institute helps in knowing the
    types of constraints, sources of funding, design considerations for this population, and
    a creation of a service model in order to bring this model to scale. It is not necessary to
    have a full team yet. Last year’s teams now compose many of the groups taking
    advantage of the pilot project.
  2. The Family Seminars – Forming an Effective Local Community Housing Collaboration –
    2 choices – [Oct 7 & 8 Northbrook] or [Oct 19 and 20 Springfield]  with Jennifer Knapp
    and CSH with a Finale in Springfield on Nov 18 – This focuses on family and other
    loved ones learning about service and housing options and creating the political push
    in their local communities to demand and create new and additional housing options in
    your local community. This training looks at public private partnerships, public financing,
    and the needs of the local community to make sure that a person with a developmental
    or intellectual disability has the option of living in their home community in regular
    housing by themselves or with a room-mate (with or without a disability) and that
    housing is available along with the required support services if and when it is needed.
  3. Self-Advocates Seminar – 2 choices- [Oct 27 in Chicago] or [Nov 2 in Springfield as a
    pre-conference session at Speak Up Speak Out] followed by a November 18 great
    Finale in Springfield – This is an opportunity for Self-Advocates to learn about the option
    of Supportive Housing and how and when to request it if this is an option they would like.
    It is about creating another option where a person selects their housing forst and then
    their service provider. It is a philosophy and a civil right  supported by  the Olmstead and
    Ligas court cases which is being offered now to persons with other disabilities. This is a
    training about how and when it is right to also offer this option to persons with intellectual
    and developmental disabilities.

Here is the Institute Application and Dates.

Expect more on the Family and Self-Advocate Training in the coming weeks.

If you know of an agency or community that wants to join the Institute, please have them contact
me directly. All the dates including some of the pending community meetings are listed in the
attachment to this email,

John Fallon
Senior Program Manager
CSH
205 W. Randolph, 23rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
office: 312.332.6690 Ext. 21
cell: 773.719.4601
fax: 312.332.7040
John.Fallon@CSH.ORG


Tony Paulauski
Executive Director
The Arc of Illinois
20901 S. LaGrange Rd. Suite 209
Frankfort, IL 60423
815-464-1832 (OFFICE)
815-464-1832 (CELL)
Tony@thearcofil.org