Coordinated Entry
The Center for Housing and Health is a subrecipient for the Chicago Coordinated Entry System (CES). CES is the largest, centralized referral network to affordable housing for the houseless in our community. In being a subrecipient to the Lead CES Agency, All Chicago, we administer the work of Skilled Assessors and Housing Systems Navigation. Skilled Assessors complete the Coordinated Entry Housing Assessment with participants experiencing literal homelessness in our community. The Housing Assessment is the entry point to CES. On the other end, the work of Housing Systems Navigation ensures households who have been matched to housing through CES are successfully housed by providing wrap–around services and serving as a liaison between the participant and their housing program. For more information about the Chicago Coordinated Entry System, please refer to the Chicago CES Website.
H2 plan
Chicago and Cook County Housing for Health Strategic Plan, 2017-2019 (updated Dec 2017)
The Chicago and Cook County 2017-2019 Housing for Health (H2) Strategic Plan clearly identifies its vision and mission with a very specific target population. The Plan calls for long-term stable housing with integrated and quality health care services for all homeless populations who are living with health challenges. Its strategic priorities are geared for those who experience homelessness, or have experienced it and are now housed.
S.H.O.P. research
This research is a 5-year study of the comparative effectiveness of different PSH models for particular housing residents. The goal of the study is to develop a typology of supportive housing programs using qualitative interviews with PSH residents and program staff. The study is initiated By Dr. Julia Dickson-Gomez, Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin and is funded by NIDA. Center for Housing and Health is a supporting organization for this project in Chicago.