December Foundations

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Foundational Community Supports (FCS)

In this issue

December Trainings 

Individual Placement and Support VIRTUAL Fidelity Reviewer Training

HCA’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking agency staff who want to host a fidelity review or participate on a fidelity reviewer team. By attending a fidelity reviewer training you put yourself in a position to become part of the HCA Fidelity Reviewer Cadre.

  • Monday, December 11 and Tuesday, December 12 
    9 a.m.    

    Register 

Permanent Supportive Housing Fidelity Reviwer Training

This training is designed for staff members who already have an understanding of the Permanent Supportive Housing principles and want to be trained in becoming a fidelity reviewer.

Supportive Housing Learning community call

Banishing Burnout by Exploring Sef-care Practices

Innovative Strategies for Career Development/Job Developer's Call 

Using a Strengths Based Approach when Offering Constructive Feedback

Please join Rutgers School of Health Professions' Joni Dolce, for a monthly call to learn more about how to provide high quality job development services. 

Buried in Treasures Learning Community 2023

Supporting people to address hoarding behaviors 

  • Tuesday, December 19  
    10 a.m.  

     Register 

Roundtable on Planning for Sustainability of Fidelity Reviews 

Join us for a roundtable discussion on improving the process for completing fideltiy reviews in the state of WA. 

  • Thursday, December 21
    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: 

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. 

Upcoming Listening Session Opportunity

Sharing on behalf of The Aging and Long-Term Support Administration's Office of Housing and Employment

The Aging and Long-Term Support Administration’s (ALTSA) Office of Housing and Employment is preparing to release a new funding opportunity for housing based on feedback we have received from housing providers like you. We received funds from the last Legislative session to offer new Global Leasing funds to partner with our supportive housing services and rental subsidies. But before we finalize the upcoming request for proposal (RFP), we want to make sure that we got it right. We want to hear from you.  

In recent years, we have had a chance to speak with many of you about the housing provider challenges that come with housing people with high barriers. Specifically, costs that cannot be covered by traditional rental subsidy programs, such as unit turn over, vacancy payments, general liability insurance and staff time.

We are designing a new program to help mitigate these expenses so we can elevate our work of supporting clients to live independently in the community. These funds could be used in units you own, manage, or in units you lease to provide subleasing opportunities for referred ALTSA clients.

We are seeking to incorporate your ideas and feedback in preparation of the release of this RFP. We have two upcoming listening sessions to hear from you. Please consider joining. 

Please contact Jonathan Carollo for more information. 

Listening Session 1: 

Tuesday, December 5 at 10 a.m. 

Register here. 

Listening Session 2: 

Friday, December 8 at 1 p.m.

Register here. 

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. 

Monthly Amerigroup Question and Answer meeting

If you are interested in attending the Quarterly Advisory Council Meeting, please email FCSTPA@amerigroup.com.