Housing and Services Partnerships Accelerator First Cohort Close Out Session | December 2024
To close-out the 2024 Housing and Services Resource Center HSPA cohort, states reflected on their HSPA participation, discussing their accomplishments, lessons learned, and challenges.
Scaling Affordable & Supportive Housing Models Within States | October 2024
The state of Maryland presented on how HSPA has helped them to move from having no permanent supportive housing in their Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) to being on the verge of having a 15% threshold requirement in every funded project. In addition to the LIHTC program, the state presented the other housing opportunities targeted to people with disabilities, including people experiencing homelessness, that are already in place and others being pursued.
Managed Care and Delivery System Opportunities | September 2024
States are making strategic choices about delivery systems for the new housing-related services and supports (HRSS). In some states, managed care plans (MCPs) play an important role in the delivery of HRSS, including in access, implementation, sustainability, and ensuring quality services. Other states have adopted different delivery systems. Regardless of the type of system, states have a set of key decisions to make as they seek to support cross-sector collaboration between housing and services systems, reduce administrative burden on providers, and promote effective person-centered service delivery in accordance with evidence-based and best practice models and approaches.
Hawaii presented their experience with their MCPs and efforts around homelessness, state requirements and standardization around housing related supports and services across MCPs, and the use of pilots and their learnings such as Rapid Cycle Assessments, to drive state MCP requirements.
Aligning Payment Models With Best Practice Service Delivery Approaches | August 2024
States have expressed the need for timely and adequate Medicaid reimbursement for housing-related services (HRSS). This Learning Track session focuses on operationalizing payment models that reduce provider burden and support effective, person-centered HRSS and delivery using best practices and evidence-based approaches. Key topics include stakeholder engagement, sustainable financial models, and efficient claims management, payments, and authorizations.
Increasing Provider Capacity in HRSS Systems | July 2024
States need robust networks of community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver housing-related supports and services (HRSS) for Medicaid-eligible individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness. These CBOs must also operate effectively in a Medicaid environment, performing key tasks like billing and delivering services following program standards. This session explores innovative strategies to address provider capacity challenges and provide a framework for states and their partners to ensure CBOs can serve as effective partners in delivering HRSS.
Strategies for Cross-Sector Data Exchanges | June 2024
Sharing housing, health, and social care data across systems enables data matching and integration, to support planning, resource prioritization, service gap identification, and quality improvement. Multi-directional data sharing enhances service coordination, reduces administrative burdens, and expands eligibility checks. This workshop-style Shared Learning Track session showcases innovative state data sharing, matching, and integration strategies. State panelists will discuss their data goals, the necessary fundamentals, and challenges faced.
Implementation of Braiding Funding | May 2024
This Learning Track builds on April’s session on strategies for successful braiding funding and digs deeper into the implementation of braiding funding, especially how to align and coordinate housing assistance matching via coordinated entry systems, public housing agency waiting lists, Continuum of Care programs (permanent supportive housing, rapid re-housing), and other housing program waitlists with Medicaid housing services eligibility. The session emphasizes multi-system funding approaches.
Strategies and Structures for Braiding Funding | April 2024
Braiding funding uses available funding, flexibilities, and partners to align and coordinate housing, health, and social care so that people with disabilities, older adults, and people at risk of or experiencing homelessness can live stably and well in the community. The concept is relatively simple, but creating a system that braids funding can be complex and challenging. This Learning Track session features a Housing and Services Partnership Accelerator state’s successful braiding strategies for different housing and services models and operational components.
Cultivating and Leveraging Successful HRSS Partnerships | March 2024
Robust partnerships are the backbone of aligning and coordinating person-centered, housing-related services and supports (HRSS) that improve housing stability, health, and well-being. Two state presenters share how long-standing partnerships across housing, health, and social care can foster sustainability at the state and local levels and cover replicable strategies and lessons learned for successful HRSS programs.