The antelope valley homeup is requesting funds to establish a place-based, integrated behavioral health treatment and interim housing model to address homeless youth needs. - the proposed project,…

The antelope valley homeup is requesting funds to establish a place-based, integrated behavioral health treatment and interim housing model to address homeless youth needs. - the proposed project, antelope valley homeup, is a trauma-informed, integrated recovery housing model for transitional-age homeless youth residing in the western mojave high desert region of california's antelope valley. Homeup aims to reduce substance use, improve housing stability, and support successful transitions into adulthood by engaging and connecting homeless young adults with a comprehensive array of place-based, age-appropriate services that address complex housing, behavioral health, and social service needs. The project uses a peer model of care to coordinate and facilitate access to an array of services and resources that are integrated with recovery housing and available on site or with transportation assistance. The homeup recovery program model and its components are designed around the four dimensions of recovery-home, health, community, and purpose. Its vision is to create an environment of stability, wellness, and support among same-age peers who share similar recovery goals. Homeup will be implemented through a regional partnership that brings together the children's center of the antelope valley (ccav), bartz altadonna community health center (bachc), antelope valley partners for health (avph), and the regional CES provider, valley OASIS. The project will also engage non-funded partners and relevant stakeholders (e.g., substance use and mental health authorities, lacdph, HUD, and cbos) who are seeking solutions to the homeless crisis and are committed to achieving change. The population of focus for the proposed grant includes antelope valley sheltered and unsheltered homeless young adults 18-24 years of age who are at risk for, or have a history of, mental illness and/or substance use disorder (SUD). The project as proposed is anticipated to reach approximately 285 unduplicated individuals over the 5-year grant funded period, enrolling 45-60 clients annually. The project identifies six overarching goals and objectives that include (1) enhancing capacity and coordination within the antelope valley homeless services system, (2) conducting targeted mobile outreach and engagement strategies that integrate harm reduction, (3) providing peer-led, trauma-informed case management to offer support and overcome barriers to help-seeking (4) providing interim recovery housing as a foundation for achieving stability, (5) promoting access to an array of behavioral health treatment, counseling, health, and social services, and (6) supporting exit planning and transitions to permanent housing. The project aims to achieve a 50% rate of retention in recovery housing and integrated services and for at least 60% of clients to demonstrate progress toward case plan objectives at 6-month follow-up. Intended outcomes are for at least 30% of mat clients to achieve drug abstinence at follow-up, for 40% to demonstrate improvements in education/employment, social connectedness, and/or health and social consequences, and for at least 30% to achieve long-term housing stability by program discharge.