New VA homeless family initiative will fund CTI

The Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program is a new VA program that will award grants to private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives who will provide supportive services to very low-income veterans and their families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.  Organizations will receive grants to provide a range of supportive services, including CTI, designed to promote housing stability.

Update Center for Urban Community Services and the Center for Social Innovation, Inc., in collaboration with experts in the use of CTI with families has announced specialized training for organizations that have received grants from the VA via this program.  Details here. 

Leave a Comment February 18, 2011

Update on CTI with families

Although CTI has primarily been used with single adults, the model has also been adapted to support families in the transition from homelessness to housing.   As described in a recent report from National Center on Family Homelessness about the Young Family CTI model, the approach incorporates targeted efforts to address needs around household management, parenting and other priority areas that differ from implementations focusing on single adults with severe mental illness.  Download the full report here.

Leave a Comment October 29, 2010

NAEH conference features CTI sessions on working with singles & families

The annual conference of the National Alliance to End Homelessness held in July in Washington, DC featured two workshops on CTI.  The first, co-led by Dan Herman of Columbia University & NYS Psychiatric Institute and Laura Morris of Resources for Human Development, Inc. will focused on working with single adults, while the second workshop, focused on homeless families, was led by Judith Samuels of New York University & Nathan Kline Institute.  Both sessions were extremely well attended.

Leave a Comment June 29, 2010

North Carolina "rapid re-housing" initiative adopts CTI

Project Hope, located in Charlotte, North Carolina has begun to implement CTI as part of a new initiative supported by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development’s  Homelessness Prevention & Rapid Re-Housing Program, a short-term rental assistance program to help prevent and reduce homelessness.  The new program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is compatible with CTI in its focus on helping individuals and families stabilize and maintain their housing with time-limited assistance, while developing long-term supportive connections in the community.  Project Hope staff received training from the Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS).  CUCS, a large direct service and training agency focused on applying innovative approaches to meeting the needs of homeless persons, is one of two organizations that provides training in the CTI model.

Leave a Comment December 15, 2009