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The Washington Supportive Housing Institute (SHI) brings teams across various sectors together for intensive and interactive workshops covering all aspects of creating affordable and supportive housing. The Institute provides tools and support to help teams build their project plans and bring them to reality. Teams graduate from the Institute with a housing development plan and a path for acquiring funding.
Who Should Apply?
We are looking for teams who want to create supportive housing to end homelessness in Washington. These teams can include:
- Supportive housing developers
- Affordable housing developers looking to expand into supportive housing
- Service providers looking to create a new supportive housing project
How to Apply
Application deadline: Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.
The RFA and mandatory application materials are live on the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) website.
The application must be completed in its entirety. Incomplete applications will not be considered. The application review team will evaluate all proposals and notify applicants of their selection by mid-December 2025.
Submission
Submit an electronic copy of the application and the attachments in PDF form to CSH by email to: rae.trotta@csh.org.
This opportunity was made possible through partnership with Advocates for Human Potential.
Sessions dates: Tuesdays (date specified below) at 11:30 a.m.
(Session 1: August 13, 2024)
(Session 2: September 10, 2024)
(Session 3: October 8, 2024)
Session 4: November 12, 2024
Session 5: December 10, 2024
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) Foundational Community Supports (FCS) program invites you to this ongoing series that offers you the opportunity to share your thoughts and feedback regarding the supportive housing fidelity reviews.
We look forward to reflecting on the experiences of our reviewers and engaging in an open discussion about the overall process.
Objectives
- Overall participation in review process
- Learned lessons
- Suggestions for change
- Obstacles and benefits to participating
Let's come together for a discussion that will shape the future of supportive housing!
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at noon
To stay aligned with the fidelity and principles of supportive housing, service recipients should receive various services to meet their needs. Therefore, an integral role of a supportive housing staff is to facilitate the coordination of care for service recipients through collaboration with other community providers. However, challenges can occur in trying to connect with and maintain relationships with other providers.
This webinar will explore best practices for connecting with different providers, building strong relationships, and supporting service recipients in engaging in services that will support goal attainment.
Objectives
- Review the importance of collaboration and coordination of care in supportive housing programs
- Describe strategies to build and maintain relationships with community providers
- Identify the role of the consumers in coordination of care of their services
Webinar: Thursday, November 14, 2024, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
This Peer-to-Peer learning series is designed as a “fishbowl” conversation with facilitators, subject matter experts, and participants in discussion around supportive housing's most challenging topics. In this session, the focus is on supportive housing for transition-age young adults.
Learn more about the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), who is presenting this webinar.
Objectives
- Developing and accessing Supportive Housing for Transition Age young adults
- Making Supportive Housing work well for Transition Age young adults
- Identifying ways young adults can be active leaders in Supportive Housing
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 9 a.m.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support employment service providers as well as individuals participating in employment services with career exploration and job matching. Recent research also suggests AI is useful for resume development and has the potential to identify job accommodations and ongoing employment support. It is important to not only better understand these benefits but to evaluate the implications and potential challenges of AI as well.
This month’s learning community call will identify AI strategies for career services providers and discuss the potential challenges of using these tools.
Objectives
- Define artificial intelligence in the context of career services.
- Identify ways that AI can assist job seekers with career exploration, job matching, and employment supports.
- Identify potential challenges to using AI in career services
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Monday, November 18, 2024, from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
As the practiced instruction goes, you must put your oxygen mask on first before you can help others. This rings especially true when considering self-care and addressing our own mental health needs as practitioners, both in daily practice and during times of crisis or stress.
Practitioners of behavioral health services have faced many challenges over the last few years, including the pandemic, staffing shortages, and adjusting to remote or hybrid schedules, and may have neglected their wellness and self-care needs.
This webinar identifies self-care practices practitioners and individuals participating in services can use to improve overall wellness. Skills and strategies to improve self-care practice will be provided to equip you and the individuals you support in maintaining wellness during stressful times.
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
This interactive training session will equip mental health practitioners with the tools and insights to integrate cultural humility into their practice, enhancing their ability to provide person-centered services.
Participants will explore the foundational elements of cultural humility and identify the benefits of using this approach for individuals in services. Through real-world examples and practical exercises, practitioners will learn how to apply a culturally responsive lens to service conceptualization and treatment planning, leading to more effective, meaningful care and improved outcomes for all individuals engaged in service.
Objectives
- Provide mental health practitioners with helpful tools and insights to incorporate cultural humility into their practice
- Explore the foundational elements and benefits of cultural humility in supporting individuals in services
- Apply knowledge and skills through real-world examples and practical exercises
Final webinar of four-part academy series: Development and Services
The Washington State Health Care Authority is working with the Corporation for Supportive Housing to hold the Washington Supportive Housing Pre-Institute Academy. The final webinar of this series focuses on tenancy.
Academy series objectives
- Introduction to Supportive Housing and Community Building
- Property Management and Supportive Services Coordination
- Fair Housing in Practice and Property Management
- Tenant Feedback Panel with current and/or former supportive housing tenants
Webinar information
Part four: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Corporation for Supportive Housing- Creating Opportunities for Receiving and Implementing Tenant Feedback
This session we will focus on a panel that includes people with lived experience of homelessness. They will share thoughts on authentic relationship-building with tenants, creative ways to solicit feedback from residents, and the importance of including staff with lived experience. There will be a question-and-answer period offered.
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Financial wellness has a tremendous impact on overall quality of life. In this session, we will explore the domain of financial wellness (one of the eight dimensions in Peggy Swarbrick’s 8D Wellness model, adopted by SAMHSA). For many individuals, increasing financial wellbeing goes hand-in-hand with attaining desired roles as a worker or a student. This session will explore the impact of financial wellness on all other wellness domains and will provide tools and resources useful for building skills in financial wellness.
Objectives
- Define financial wellness
- Identify skills in developing financial wellness
- Understand & effectively utilize available resources in promoting financial wellness
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar series: Mondays (dates specified below) from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
This four-part Motivational Interviewing (MI) series provides practitioners with valuable tools and resources to utilize MI in their services. MI is an evidence-based practice used in various settings to assist individuals in making behavior changes and achieving goals. It focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence and is geared toward understanding and enhancing internal motivations that facilitate change. Unlike many other techniques, MI is designed for people at the earlier stages of change (pre-contemplation, contemplation), where most people are. By placing listening ahead of “fixing”, we facilitate the therapeutic relationship and come closer to a course of action that will work for the person making a change.
Each session will provide its own focus and training.
Session 1 (Monday, November 4, 2024) focused on defining MI and its use in behavioral health services and describing the role of providers in facilitating, including examining our communication styles. Additionally, session one examined the spirit of MI and describe how these four elements contribute to positive change.
Session 2 (Monday, November 25, 2024): Focus on describing the four processes of MI and differentiating between sustain and change talk. We will review the MI techniques of open-ended questions, affirmations, and simple reflections
Objectives
- Define the four processes of motivational interviewing.
- Differentiate between sustain talk and change talk
- Develop strategies for moving from change talk to planning
- Use open-ended questions, affirmations, and simple reflections to help elicit change talk from the person making the change
Session 3 (Monday, December 2, 2024): Build upon the techniques learned in Session 2, including introducing complex reflections and summaries.
Objectives
- Differentiate between types of complex reflections
- Use complex reflections in a “real” play
- Describe various types of summaries
Session 4 (Monday, December 16, 2024): Cover the elements of the continuum of change, also known as the stages of change model, and describe the connection between the continuum of change and MI. Additionally, attendees will identify how to best support someone in the change process based on their stage of change.
Objectives
- Identify the elements of the continuum of change
- Describe the connection between the continuum of change and motivational interviewing
- Demonstrate how to best support someone in the change process based on place in the continuum
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, December 17, 2024, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
This 90-minute webinar will equip behavioral health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of how to provide affirming and supportive services to individuals of diverse gender and affectional identities, including those within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Participants will explore best practices for cultural humility when working with individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community, learning how to integrate inclusive language and services into their practice. Case studies and applied activities will allow participants to develop practical skills to provide gender-affirming and affectional identity-supportive services with a focus on fostering safe, respectful, and inclusive therapeutic environments.
Objectives
- Define key terms related to gender and affectional identity.
- Identify best practices for integrating gender-affirming care and supportive affectional identity practices into service delivery.
- Apply gender and affectional identity-affirming principles through case study discussions and real-world scenarios, developing culturally responsive approaches.
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, December 19, 2024, from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Employment specialists may need to be better equipped in how to best provide job supports in the most respectful and least intrusive way. This two-part webinar provides tips and resources on how to effectively provide onsite supports and job coaching while also encouraging the use of natural supports, such as coworkers and others, on the job.
Objectives
- Define onsite supports and job coaching
- Assess the need for onsite supports
- Apply best practice onsite support strategies
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Whether explicit or implicit, we all have biases – unsupported assumptions about people, groups, or things. Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, author of Blind Spots: Hidden Biases of Good People, points out, “We’d like to believe we are open-minded, fair, and without bias, but research shows otherwise. This is an important, even if uncomfortable, realization for most of us.” While these biases aren’t always negative, implicit bias can make us susceptible to unintentionally acting in ways inconsistent with our values and potentially detrimental to personal and professional relationships. Even though you do not choose to have implicit biases, you can choose to be aware of them and combat their effects via awareness and conscious decision-making.
Objectives
- Recognize implicit bias and why it matters
- Identify sources of implicit biases
- Accept the responsibility to identify and understand your implicit biases
- Identify strategies for combating implicit biases
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