Expanding Access to Housing-Related Services and Supports
The Accelerator will bring together interdisciplinary teams to tackle common issues, such as navigating payment models and rates, data integration and sharing, and more. Each participating team will include representatives from the state’s Medicaid agency, as well as state and community organizations focused on homelessness and housing (including Continuums of Care and public housing authorities), disability and aging (including No Wrong Door systems, centers for independent living, and area agencies on aging), mental health and substance abuse, public health, and more.
A growing number of states are leveraging new opportunities and flexibilities available under Medicaid, new federal housing resources, and expanded opportunities under the Older Americans Act to cover a range of services and supports that help people find, obtain, and maintain their housing. The Housing and Services Partnership Accelerator brings interdisciplinary teams together in a 12-month learning collaborative to tackle common issues, such as navigating payment models and rates, data integration and sharing, and more. These teams include representatives from the state's Medicaid agency, as well as state and ocmmunity orgnaizations focused on homelessness and housing (including Continuums of Care and public housing authorities), disability and aging (including No Wrong Door systems, centers for independent living and area agencies on aging,), mental helath and substance abuse, public health, and more. The Accelerator offers participants an opportunity to share lessons learned and promising practices for improving collaboration and coordination to optimize resources, cover resource gaps, align state and local policies, and to deliver more integrated and seamless services. Finally, participants receive one-on-one coaching support from housing and services subject matter experts. The Accelerator not only supports the needs of the participating states but also serves as a source for lessons-learned and promising practices that are shared nationally for all states' benefits.