November Foundations

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Foundational Community Supports (FCS)

In this issue

November Trainings 

Fidelity Reveiw Informational webinar

If you are interested in applying to participate in 2023-2024 fidelity reviews but have questions, please register for this brief, interactive webinar.  


Supportive Housing Learning Community Call 

Engaging and Supporting Individuals Experiencing Psychosis


Supportive Housing monthly webinar 

Engaging with the System: Please join Dakota Steel, Senior Administrator, to learn more about The Office of Recovery Partnerships and how the office serves as a conduit for those who have lived/living experience with or who have been impacted by behavioral health challenges, to shape, inform and transform behavioral health systems in Washington State


Supported Employment Monthly Job Development Call 

Finding the Right Support: Accomodations for Job Seekers with Mental Health Conditions 

  • Thursday, November 9 
    9 a.m.   

    Register  


Supported Employment monthly webinar 

Glidepath Supported Employment Housing and Essential Needs project 

Objectives: 

  • Learn about the purpose behind the Glidepath program
  • Hear how Glidepath can serve the FCS Supported Employment enrollees
  • Thursday, November 16
     8:30 a.m.   

     Register


Buried in Treasures Learning Community 2023

Supporting people to address hoarding behaviors 

  • Tuesday, November 28  
    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: 

Kaitlynn.Morse@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. 

Updated Pathways to Housing website

The “Pathways to Housing” website recently underwent renovations and is ready for eager web-explorers to begin putting its new interface to good use! Pathways to Housing is a website where people seeking housing, supportive housing service providers, and landlords alike can explore local and state resources relevant to housing services in Washington state. The site has curated resource links, budgeting tools, rental application tools, and more for all types of housing-seekers. Additionally, there are e-learning modules,  program building tools for service providers,  information on the Landlord Mitigation Fund and more for landlords; there is something for everyone to utilize. Please follow (and bookmark!) this link for the new “Pathways to Housing” site: https://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/pathwaystohousing/P2H_Main.html 

Additionally, stay tuned in December for information on a virtual “Pathways to Housing Walk-Through and Info Session” with our FCS Supportive Housing Program Managers, who will serve as tour guides navigating the new look of this well-loved resource.


2023 Co-occurring Disorder (COD) Conference

FCS and colleagues at the Co-occuring disorders conference

Left to Right: Dani Rylander, Scott Tankersley, Dawn Miller, Joni Dolce, Kimberly Castle, Nora Barrett, Pat Tucker

Members of HCA’s Foundational Community Supports (FCS) team – Dawn Miller, Kimberly Castle, and Scott Tankersley – were excited to meet in-person and generate collaborations with Department of Commerce’s Dani Rylander, Pat Tucker from Advocates for Human Potential, and Nora Barrett and Joni Dolce from Rutgers University during the 2023 Cooccurring Disorder (COD) & Treatment Conference in Yakima, WA.


Now accepting applications for the 2023-24 Supportive Housing and Supported Employment Fidelity Reveiw incentive funds

HCA's Divison of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2024 Fidelity Review Incentive Funds. These funds will allow a limited number of Foundational Community Supports (FCS) contracted providers to apply for incentive dollars to participate in the fidelity review process. 

There are now six different options for participation and participation incentives vary from $5,000 - $7,500.

View the incentive interest form


FCS Survey

Please use the link below to complete a survey designed to gather your input on the learning communities that Rutgers University faculty have facilitated over the past five years for Washington's Foundational Community Supports (FCS). Specifically, we are looking for your feedback on the Landlord Outreach, Buried in Treasures, Job Developers, Supported Employment Supervisors and Supportive Housing Supervisors learning communities.

Our goal with this study is to examine the impact of utilizing learning communities to improve behavioral health providers’ skills and knowledge in Supported Employment and Supportive Housing services in our FCS programs. We are hoping you will support us in this important endeavor.

If you would like additional information about this study, please contact Nora Barrett at nora.barrett@rutgers.edu.

Click to take the survey


The Golden Thread of Documentation for FCS webinar series 

Join us for a six-session training series that provides a comprehensive overview, with practical applications, of Medicaid-compliant documentation requirements for Foundational Community Supports (FCS).

It is recommended that participants attend all sessions in the series, as the information presented is cumulative. Please note, these sessions were offered in the spring, summer, and fall of 2020, 2021, and 2022. 

Webinars will take place on six consecutive Mondays.

  • Dates: Monday November 6, 2023 - December 11, 2023. 
  • Time: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

Register for all six events