Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 2:30-3:30 PM ET
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Join the ACL-funded Housing and Services Resource Center for a webinar on cross-sector partnerships that can enhance housing stability for individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) at risk for or experiencing homelessness. Disability, aging, health, and housing organizations — along with state officials and policymakers — can collaborate to expand access to TBI programs and services. Presenters will discuss types of services that can enhance housing stability and best practices for collaboration between housing, health, and social care services to increase access to those supports. Attendees will gain an understanding of the types of services that can enhance the housing stability of individuals with TBI and learn about the collaborations to increase access to those supports.
In October 2018, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council reported that disabilities associated with TBI could interfere with a person’s ability to maintain stable housing and employment. Recent studies have found that half of all people experiencing homelessness report a history of TBI, and evidence indicates that unstable housing situations make it more difficult to fully recover. People who are homeless and living with TBI are more likely to sustain another injury, become the victim of a crime, be arrested, or become dependent upon emergency room visits for treatment. They require supports and services that meet them where they live.
Launched in partnership between the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development, the Housing and Services Resource Center fosters cross-sector partnerships between the organizations and systems that provide housing resources and homelessness services, health care and mental health services, independent living services, and other supportive services. The HSRC is part of an interagency initiative to streamline and expand access to affordable, accessible housing and the critical services that make community living possible.