“With the help and dedication of Housing Works, I am happy to say that I have been living in my wonderful apartment for a year now. My CalAIM manager and her team continue to assist me with check-ins and monthly food boxes. They even helped me win my Social Security Disability Insurance case. I cannot thank Housing Works enough. My CalAIM manager and her team gave me peace.”
–Housing Works client
Founded in 2003, Housing Works is a permanent supportive housing (PSH) provider serving communities throughout Los Angeles. The organization was an early adopter of housing first, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction approaches for people experiencing chronic homelessness. Housing Works developed the first service protocols and manuals to provide trauma-informed care to people with serious, persistent mental illness.
Housing Works currently navigates about 100 people into housing each year and supports more than 800 people in PSH.
In addition to providing Community Supports services for Medi-Cal managed care plans LA Care, Health Net, Kaiser Permanente, Molina, and Anthem, Housing Works is contracted to provide homeless services for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles County Departments of Health Services, and the cities of West Hollywood and Pasadena.
Through Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) Capacity and Infrastructure Transition, Expansion, and Development (CITED) funding, Housing Works is building its organizational capacity to provide compassionate, in-person care to individuals in need. CITED funding has enabled Housing Works to:
- Hire a full-time California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) manager
- Establish a CalAIM Department, including furnishings and technology for a growing team
- Contract with Modern HR for CalAIM recruiting and hiring
- Develop new modules for its client information system and the addition of medical billing functionality
These investments are empowering Housing Works to achieve its Medi-Cal goals. The organization is now better positioned to journey alongside its participants as long as it takes to ensure they are working toward stability and community integration.
Have you applied for funding to support your organization’s workforce, vendor contracting, IT, community assessment and other Medi-Cal needs necessary to deliver ECM and Community Supports?