HOUSING RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES (HRSS)

Provides support to Medicaid members experiencing homelessness, or at risk of homelessness, food insecurity, transportation insecurity, interpersonal violence and/or trauma.  

Community Transition Services - include 

(a) security deposits that are required to obtain a lease on an apartment or home (the state will impose a maximum of not more than two payments per beneficiary, 

(b) essential household furnishings and moving expense required to occupy and use a community domicile, including furniture, window coverings, food preparation items and bed/bath linens; 

(c) set-up fees or deposits for utility or service access, including telephone, electricity, heating and water; 

(d) services necessary for the beneficiaries’ health and safety such as pet eradication and one-time cleaning prior to occupancy;

(e) moving expenses; 

(f) necessary home accessibility adaptations; and 

(g) activities to assess need, arrange for and procure needed resources. 

These services will be furnished only when it is determined reasonable and necessary as identified through the housing support plan when the beneficiary does not have monies to pay for the expenses and when funding for the items is not available through other funding sources. Services are available to beneficiaries moving from an institution, a congregate living arrangement, a more restrictive community setting or homelessness or those who are unsafely housed or lack secure housing.

Tenancy Support Services - include 

(a) tenant screening and housing assessment to identify barriers to successful tenancy; 

(b) development of an individualized housing support plan; 

(c) housing application, process and selection assistance; 

(d) reasonable accommodation request assistance; (e) housing crisis plan; 

(f) education and training on tenant/landlord rights; 

(g) eviction reduction services; and 

(h) assistance with housing voucher/subsidy and recertifications.

Supported Living Services - provide a variety of coordinated services, which do not include room and board costs.  This service includes medical care coordinating, health and wellness education, connection to nutritional counseling, mental health services scheduling and coordination of screenings, assessments, counseling, substance use disorder services access to providers of relapse prevention, counseling, detoxification and formal/informal AA/NA recovery support services independent living services including financial management, entitlement assistance, grocery shopping and meal preparation training, mediation training, and general supportive services including case management, community and peer support, crisis intervention and non-medical transportation.

Non- Medical Transportation – allows case managers to transport clients to non-medical locations related to acquiring housing or keeping their housing once the client is housed.

 HRSS serves individuals participating in the Targeted Adult Medicaid Program (TAM) and Adult Expansion Medicaid (AEM).

HRSS services are available to Medicaid members, ages 19 through 64, who are members of the Targeted Adult Medicaid (TAM) and the Adult Expansion Medicaid (AEM) population and meet the clinical and social risk factors criteria.

The social risk factors criteria include homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development