Legislative Committee Report

Spring Report

April 29, 2014

SHPA Legislative Priorities

State

Maintain/Increase Funding for Supportive Housing

Continue Focus on Healthcare Reform and Care Coordination

1115 Waiver Creation

Federal

HUD/HEARTH Act Funding Increase and Implementation

Second Chance Act – funding to prevent homelessness for people leaving incarceration

 

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Renewal

Current and Emerging

Legislative IssuesState

Expiration of the Temporary Tax increase

FY 2015 Budget – Revenue Shortfall

Elections this fall

Federal

Sequestration Impact – Restoration of rental subsidy vouchers

ACA Implementation

THUD Funding Levels

SHPA Spring Advocacy

• Extend the Temporary Income Tax Increase! The State Needs a Revenue Solution for FY 2015!

• Maintain Current Supportive Housing Funding at $27.8 Million!

• Expand Supportive Housing Services!

Increase Funding by $2.3 million! Leverage $67.5 Million!

Make a commitment to engage your legislator!

By phone, in person, on site, in their office – some way, somehow!

Join the Legislative Committee!

First Monday of the Month

9:30 am Conference Call

Call in #: 1-866-951-1151

Access Code: 927-8634#

For the Spring Session and Beyond

April 29, 2014 SHPA Quarterly

Meeting

Governance Committee Report

The Governance Committee

The Governance Committee makes decisions about how SHPA should be run. The committee shapes the association’s by-laws, committee structure, membership policies and more.

Members of the Governance Committee

Eileen Higgins, ChairLucy BrownleeDavid EspositoDavid HarrisonSharon HessWilliam JohnsonSherri Allen ReevesMillicent NtiamoahMichelle SurneyDarsonya SwitzerYOU

SHPA’s Membership Dues has & will:

Meet the challenge to deepen our advocacy

Grow SHPA’s training and TA to members and residents for best practices

Help SHPA increase staff to serve our growing membership

And much much more!

Governance Committee Report Covers

Thank you for Paying Your 2014 Membership Dues

Current Projects:SHPA’s Resident Travel PolicySHPA’s Social Media Policy

Next Project: Membership Campaign Phase II

Joining SHPA Governance Committee

2014 Membership Dues Paid

CoC- DoPage County CoC- Heartland CoC- Northwestern Illinois CoC- Southern Illinois CoC- West Central Illinois Kitty Cole Connections for the

Homeless Cornerstone Service Deborah”s Place DuPage PADS Inc.

A Safe Haven Alexian Bros.

Bonaventure House AID Catholic Charities

Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Charities Diocese of

Joliet Center for Prevention of

Abuse Chestnut Health

Systems Coc Decatur/Macon

County Homeless council

2013 Membership Dues Paid

Housing Options for the Mentally Ill in Evanston

Inner Voice Interdependent Living

Solution Center Lazarus House Light the Way Inc. Lighten-Gale Group Madison County

Community Development Mercy Housing Lakefront PADS Inc. (Aurora)

Richard Durbin Embarras River Basin

Agency Featherfist Ford Heights CSO Grand Prairie Services Heritage Behavioral

Health Center Homestead Corporation

of Champaign/Urbana Housing Action Illinois Ford Heights C.B.O.

2013 Membership Dues Paid

• PATH Inc• Primo Center for Women &

Children • ReVive Center • Sheridan Ventures• Southside Office of

Concern• Southern Illinois Coalition

for the Homeless • Thresholds • Together We Cope• Trilogy• West Suburban PADS

For paying your 2014 membership dues!

Social Media Policy& Residents Travel Policy

The committee has reviewed both the social media and residents travel policies . We have made recommendations and sent them to the Executive Committee for Approval.

Phase I of the Membership Campaign

Project Come BackOur next meeting May. 27, 2014, we will

discuss our findings from the agencies and move on to Phase II with reaching out to potential new members.

If you have questions, comments, or need to make payment arrangements for

2014 dues .

Please call or email Aaron Eldridge. 312-202-0254

a.eldridge@shpa-il.org

To Join the Governance Committee

Fill out the Get on Board with SHPA form and give it to Aaron Eldridge or Eileen Higgins.

The next Governance Committee call is Tuesday May 27, 2014 @ 2:00pm. 888-951-1151; 927-28634,

Join us as we explore every aspect of the policies that Govern SHPA.

Quality improvement and results

Standards & Best Practices Committee

Standards & Best Practices

Current and Future Activities:

Merging of the Association’s Healthcare Committee activities into the S & BP Committee:

The healthcare system is rapidly evolving in Illinois. Housing is now more widely acknowledged as a social determinant of health. Healthcare and housing is now recognized as important to the Illinois Medicaid

and healthcare system.

Standards & Best Practices

Current and Future Activities

Dimensions of Quality The Committee has reviewed the

Dimensions of Quality I

More discussion is required.

The SHPA Executive Committee supports a best practices approach to supportive housing.

Staff Credentialing

The Committee representatives have had preliminary discussion with the Illinois Certification Board about staff credentialing.

The Committee will engage in research and review about the value of and potential for developing a credentialing process for supportive housing staff.

Standards & Best practices

Join this exciting committee to assist us in our work this year!

We meet on the Fourth Monday of the Month at 10am (see schedule included in packet).

Your participation is welcomed and needed! Please join us.

Continuum of Care Committee

Connecting and Sharing Information

April 24, 2014

Housing Action Illinois and SHPA co-host the Continuum of Care Committee.

CSH, IHDA, DCEO and IACAA staff also participate, as well as members of every Continua around the state.

Only statewide forum for Continua.

The CoC Committee continues to maintain a “Google Group” established during the last NOFA submission. It has facilitated discussion and information sharing.

Continuum of Care

CONTINUUM OF CARE

Federal Housing Choice Voucher Funding

Presentation by Barbara Sard, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

75,000 HUD Tenant-Based Housing Choice Vouchers were cut due to sequestration implemented in FY13

Congress restored 34,000 vouchers in FY14 appropriations bill but 40,000 were lost

CONTINUUM OF CARE 13 national groups including Center on Budget and

Policy Priorities, National Low Income Housing Coalition and others working together to lobby for restoration and targeting

Targets:

1. 30,000 for homeless or at-risk families and individuals

2. 5,000 for victims of domestic violence

3. 5,000 for people with disabilities (Olmstead compliance)

Wednesday, April 30 – Housing Alliance Illinois, CSH, Thresholds and SHPA are participating in person and by phone in a meeting with Senator Durbin’s staff to discuss

CONTINUUM OF CARE

Announcements: SHPA regional meeting

and Advocacy Day, April 29 and 30, Springfield

Housing Action Illinois Annual Conference, October 23, Bloomington

Next meeting:

Via conference call, Thursday, May 22 at 10:00AM, Presentation by Sue Augustus – SOAR (Social Security and SSI Access to Recovery)

Continuum of Care Committee

Meets on the Fourth Thursday of the Month at 10am via conference call.

Anyone who is involved with their local continuum of care is invited to attend and participate.

Simply fill out the Get On Board With SHPA form and return it to Carlissa Puckett.

Google Group

If you wish to enroll in the Google Group. Indicate that on your Get On Board With SHPA form.

SHPAHealthcare Committee

Quarterly Meeting ReportAugust 13, 2013

Housing and Healthcare Reform Goals

•Medicaid Expansion to include all Residents and Clients

•An End to Homelessness through Permanent Supportive Housing

•Coordination of Care for Those in Supportive Housing

•Improved Health Outcomes for Those in Supportive Housing

•Cost Savings Resulting from Improved Health Outcomes

Housing and Healthcare Reform Action Plan

•Outreach, engage and enrollment Residents/Clients in expanded Medicaid;

•Maintain and expand supportive housing;

•Build opportunities for housing and healthcare

•Actively develop relationships as a Partner with:

other service providers (mental health, substance abuse) state governmentmanaged care organizationshealthcare providers – doctors, hospitalsnursing homes.

Major Opportunity - The Waiver

The Waiver is:

• A State request to the Federal government for flexibility in the Medicaid program

• A way for Illinois to request federal funds to change the Medicaid program:

o to improve the individual’s experience of care (including quality and satisfaction);

o to improve the health of populations; and

o to reduce the per capita cost of health care.

• A major opportunity for supportive housing, BECAUSE….

Major Opportunity - The Waiver

Supportive Housing

• improves quality of life;

• improves health outcomes for people living in supportive housing;

• saves the healthcare system money.

Make a commitment to engage your legislator! By phone, in person, on site, in their office –

some way, somehow!

Join the Healthcare Committee!

Second Tuesday of the Month10:00 am Conference Call

Call in # - 866-951-1151Access Code - 927-9634#

Help Us Reform Housing and Healthcare Practices

Residents Program Report

April 2014

Resident Program Updates• Coming Soon….

• 2014 Resident • Attendance in National Alliance to End Homelessness

• Next Conference Call: May 20th • 1:00 p.m. • 1-866-951-1151• Code: 9278634#• CALL IN!!!!!

SHPA Partnership Updates• Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

• MAJOR VICTORY: The Re-Entry Pilot program within the Chicago Housing Authority was approved by the Mayor’s office.

• Alliance in Suburban Cook County• 150 Homes Campaign: As of 4-2014 housed 345

chronically homeless individuals

• Chicago Alliance • PSH Constituence Group: CoC Governance Charter,

to be voted on in June 2014

Resident Program Updates• Invited to be on CANTV Program “Honoring Veterans

First” Resident Leader Babette Peyton

• Revitalization of St. Leo’s Tenant Council• Strategic Planning Session, Meet & Greet, Election Process

• Building momentum at Connections for the Homeless • Benefits of Tenant Council, Development of Mission Statement,

Meet & Greet

• Aaron Parker: CCH Organizing Training

• The Renaissance Collaborative: Revitalization of Tenant Council

Resident Program Updates• Disproportionate Miniority Contact Summit

• Mansfield Institute for Social Justice & Transformation and Health and Medicine Policy Research Group