Presented by Andrea White of Housing Innovations and Anne Melbin of NNEDV.
Interest in voluntary models of case management is growing with the increased use of rapid re-housing and permanent supportive housing models. Speakers in this workshop will discuss engagement strategies and the organizational shift needed to serve families through a voluntary approach. Panelists will focus on services for young mothers and survivors of domestic violence.
3. What are Voluntary Services?
Goal based
Structured around real expectations:
Lease, eligibility standards, legal issues, CPS requirements
Provides information and choice
Addresses identified needs
4. Transition
Transition from an acute model to a long term model
From a symptom-based model to goal-based models
From crisis response to long term planning
Look at long term change
Provide housing as a base
5. What Are People Asking For
A Safe Affordable Place To Live
Community
Services Appropriate To Their Needs
Choice and Respect
Money Enough To Live On
A Role In The Community And In Their Families
A Chance For Their Children And Themselves To Get
Ahead
10. Tasks
Ask people what they want, where they want to be
in 5 years
Connect people’s dreams and goals for their
families to housing as the first step
Educate people about available housing options
and expectations of each
Identify skills and supports needed to maintain
chosen housing options
Establish housing access or housing stability as a
primary goal
Assist people to secure an income
11. Tasks
Prepare for the expectations of each housing
opportunity
Plan for and assist in maintaining housing
(paying rent, apartment maintenance and
upkeep, complying with the lease and following
house rules, accessing aftercare services and
supports)
12. Case Management:
Engagement Strategies
• Pro-active outreach
• Introduce yourself and how you can be helpful
• Repeated, predictable, non-intrusive patterns of
interaction
• Responding to felt needs
• Respecting boundaries
• Allowing people as much control as possible over
interactions
• Be patient and persistent
• Listen
13. Goal Based Engagement
and Assessment Strategies
Explore what the persons/ family’s choice means
History (i.e. housing, employment)
How person/ family became homeless, lost
employment/ income
Preferences
Financial Issues
Implications of disabilities or service needs and
how this relates to goal
Long term goals, particularly as relate to children
14. Finding Common Ground
Negotiation Strategies
Link proposed option to client’s aspirations
Frame move as intermediate
Reflect on clients experience in housing to better
understand current needs
Open up discussion of other options
Test available options with peers
Negotiate to improve skills/resources to
access/maintain preferred option
15. Finding Common Ground
Worker should be forthright about the
reasons for assessment and what they are
able to access
Worker should anticipate reactions to
disagreement and remain connected
16. Begin: Developing the
Plan to Work Together
Elicit and listen to the parent and reflect back
to clarify and check understanding
Goal setting is an individual process
Empathize about goal setting and unmet goals
Listen to resident’s perception of past
successes and struggles in reaching goals
List and discuss strengths that may facilitate
reaching goals
24. Resources
National Network to End Domestic
Violence
TA and training
Template policies, program materials
Interviews with survivors in transitional
housing
State “No Rules” Projects
25. THANK YOU!
Anna Melbin Andrea White
207-847-3199 andrea.white.ny@gmail.com
amelbin@nnedv.org
www.nnedv.org