The Resource Library

Publications

  • Connecting with Medicaid: Strategies & Options for Providers of Services to People who are Homeless

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    This brief summarizes various options for providers of services to people experiencing homelessness interested in establishing clearer pathways or connections with Medicaid, including changes to Medicaid eligibility as part of health reform and key questions to consider for providers interested in delivering Medicaid services. (June 2011)

  • Save Section 811 with the New Community Integration Paradigm

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    This article, which was co-authored by TAC's Associate Director, Ann O'Hara, and was published in an issue of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Magazine, discusses how legislation intended to reform the HUD Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program will help create additional units of…

  • Using Medicaid to Pay for Services in Permanent Supportive Housing: Steps for CoC Leads to Get Started

    Manual | Publication | August 2016

    Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is an effective intervention for ending chronic homelessness. An essential part of the PSH model is a package of health care and supportive services that helps people with disabilities get and stay housed. Those services, however, cost money - money that can be difficult to…

  • Taking Integrated Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) to Scale: The Louisiana PSH Program

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    This brief summarizes the state of Louisiana’s 3,000 unit Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Program. Developed in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the program is the nation's first large scale cross-disability, integrated permanent supportive housing initiative to include sustainable funding for housing and for supportive services using…

  • Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction: Strategies to Build a Coordinated & Culturally Responsive System of Care for People with SUDs Experiencing Homelessness

    Fact Sheet | Publication | February 2023

    This fact sheet series outlines recommended action steps and implementation examples on how government and nonprofit agencies may come together to achieve the goal of systems alignment and improved outcomes for people with substance use disorders who are experiencing homelessness.