Housing Support Team
The Housing Support Team is a partnership between Family Services of the Piedmont, Open Door Ministries, and the Greensboro Housing Coalition. This partnership formed from a 26 month grant for $644,000 received from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service and a $50,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro for a pilot project to create Housing Support Teams.
Since the unveiling of the ten year plan and the beginning of the Housing Support Team in June 2007:
- 33 people are presently housed
- 8 are in transitional housing
- 7 people are in discussion with the Housing and Support Team to determines eligibility, options, willingness to participate
- The Housing Support Team's current success rate is 87%
Goals of HST:
- To moves eligible participants into permanent housing and help them to maintain it
- To reduce hospital, emergency room, jail admissions
- To build the capacity of enhanced providers, public systems, and community groups to provide housing support to homeless disabled persons
- To documents cost/benefit of housing first
For more information please contact:
Mitch McGee
Family Service of the Piedmont
Housing Support Team Coordinator
902 Bonner Dr.
Jamestown, NC27282
(336)387-6161 x 1118
Fax: (336) 387-9167
www.safeandhealthyfamilies.com
