April Foundations

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Foundational Community Supports (FCS)

In this issue

April Trainings 

DBHR's Supportive Housing Learning Community call

Understanding the social determinants of health in the context of Supportive Housing services: Part 2    

  • Wednesday, April 12 
     9:30 a.m. 

     Register


Permanent Supportive Housing as Evidence Based Practice: The Basics

This training is presented by Advocates for Human Potential and will cover the core elements of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service administration (SAMHSA) Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Fidelity model. This will include the seven (7) dimensions of a quality PSH program and is foundational to the SAMSHA PSH model.

Thursday, April 13 

  •  9 - 11 a.m. 

     Register       


Supported Employment monthly topical webinar

There is no session this month. 


Buried in Treasures Learning Community 2022

Supporting people to address hoarding behaviors 

  • Tuesday, April 25  
     10 a.m. 

     Register


Supportive Housing monthly topical webinar 

2023 Fair Housing Refresher and Update  

April is Fair Housing Month! Join Marley Hochendoner with Northwest Fair Housing alliance who will review the federal and Washington State fair housing protections, covered properties, and exemptions; provide the steps to request and analyze reasonable accommodation requests for people with disabilities in housing; and provide an update on current fair housing trends. 

  • Thursday, April 27 
     8:30 - 10 a.m. 

     Register 


Live captioning available: Communication Access Real-time Transcription (CART) services, or live closed captioning, are available for these events, on demand. Scheduling CART services requires a three-week lead-time. To request this accommodation, please submit a request to dawn.miller@hca.wa.gov as soon as possible. If you make your request less than a week in advance of the event, our language access manager cannot guarantee that a CART writer will be available.

2023 Medicaid Academy Series

Join HCA’s Foundational Community Supports (FCS) team and the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) in a 7-part series to understand the ins and outs of billing Medicaid for FCS. This training will help you to better understand what your organization will need to do to take advantage of this benefit. We will have a kick off session to discuss basics of Medicaid and Foundational Community Supports. 

Please register for each session individually. 

View the 2023 Medicaid Academy sessions and register. 


Washington Supportive Housing Academy: Development Series

The Washington Supportive Housing Academy: Development Series is a series of trainings designed to be accessible and educational to all who may want to attend. All interested parties are welcome and encouraged to attend each session, but you can also choose whichever sessions fit your schedule. These sessions are open to those who are working on or interested in developing supportive housing in Washington state. 

View and register for the remaining trainings


Call for Foundational Community Supports Success Stories

We are soliciting participant success stories from providers. Sharing of success stories is vital to show how Supportive Housing and Supported Employment services provide hope and move people forward in their recovery. The stories inspire others who may need Housing and Employment support to access Foundational Community Supports services. Legislators and funders also need to see opportunities of success to validate the importance of continuing to provide funding for the services.

Share your Story

There are a few different ways to share these successes.

  • An agency or participant can write their story
  • Provide a write up along with pictures and/or video
  • Connect with our HCA communications team to participate in an interview  to share the success story.

If your agency would like to be part of this great work and have participants, landlords, or employers who want to share their story how FCS has made a difference in their life. Please contact us by email at HCAEmpAssist@hca.wa.gov. 

Please be sure to include contact information including full name and email address, send any Protected Health Information in a secured format and include the HCA media release. We will follow up with you for additional information and/ or an interview as requested.  

Thanks for helping us share the important work and reach others who can benefit from Foundational Community Supports!

Contact us to share your story. 


Job Developers Community of Practice Call: Using success stories to support career goals

Over the last few years, providers and individuals participating in services may have become discouraged and possibly overwhelmed with the additional stressors many have experienced. This may have resulted in limited movement toward career goals. May's call will re-examine the important role that employment has on recovery. Participants will identify and learn how to counter common myths, while exploring the benefits of employment for people with mental health conditions.

We’ll review success stories that have been shared over the past few years and identify effective ways to use these successes when interacting with other providers and job seekers as a way to encourage and support career goals.

  • Thursday, May 11
  • 9 - 10 a.m. 
  • Register