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DHS is pleased to announce the next round of Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program grants.
PATH grantees will provide outreach, case management, and other supportive services for persons with serious mental illness (SMI), or with a SMI and co-occurring Substance Use Disorder (SUD), who are homeless, long term homeless, or at imminent risk of homelessness, including persons who will be homeless upon exit from an institutional setting.
Approximately $1,365,000 is available each year. The grantees are:
- Guild Incorporated
- Human Development Center
- Hennepin County
- Northwestern Mental Health Center
- RADIAS Health
- South Central Human Relations Center
- Washington County
About PATH
The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990 created the PATH program. Available in all states, the PATH program supports the delivery of outreach and services to individuals aged 18 and older with serious mental illnesses and those with co-occurring SUDs who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness.
Homelessness for persons with SMI in Minnesota remains a persistent problem, and Minnesota has continued to see a rise in the rate and numbers of persons with SMI who are homeless. In 2017, there were 1,729 persons with SMI contacted by PATH, with 1,250 of these persons becoming enrolled. Of the persons enrolled in PATH, 51% were literally homeless, 19% were doubled up, and 17% were in an institution.
PATH provides:
- Outreach services to identify, contact, and engage potentially eligible persons in PATH services and behavioral health services. Outreach efforts prioritize people who are literally homeless in community settings such as on the street, in camps, in cars, under bridges, and other places unfit for human habitation, but may also serve people in segregated settings such as shelters, hospitals, or other institutional settings.
- General case management with a provider agency in which assessment, advocacy, communication, and resource management are used to design and implement a wellness plan specific to a PATH-enrolled individual’s recovery needs.
Additional PATH services include:
- A clinical determination of psychosocial risks, needs, strengths and concerns.
- A range of mental health and/or co-occurring services and activities provided in community-based, non-residential, settings to facilitate an individual’s recovery and wellbeing.
- Prevention, diagnostic, and other services and supports provided for people who have a SUD.
- Habilitation or Rehabilitation Services help a PATH service recipient to learn and/or improve the activities related to daily living skills needed to function in a variety of community-based settings.
- Residential Supportive Services help PATH-enrolled individuals develop and/or practice the skills necessary to maintain residence in the least restrictive community-based setting possible.
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