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Housing Access Services is a partnership of The Arc Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Human Services Disability Services Division
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Housing Access Services
Presenter: Scott Schifsky, Program Director The Arc Minnesota
Brrrrrriiiinnnnggg!
Housing Access Services is a partnership of The Arc Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Human Services Disability Services Division
Housing Access Services
is about privacy… one-person at a time
Over 1,474
movers!
2012 Commissioner of Human Services Circle of Excellence Award
Who is eligible?Any person over 18 who is assessed and determined eligible for Medical Assistance home care or waiver services in Minnesota
What do Housing Access Services staff do?
Housing Access Services can:
Help people move to a place of their own from a group home or
assisted living facility.
Housing Access Services can:
Accompany people when looking for housing
Housing Access Services can:
Help complete rental applications and lease
agreements.
Housing Access Services can:
Meet and negotiate with landlords or property staff.
How did Karli afford her own place?
Stable Public Funding
Housing Access Services can:
Help with applications for publicly financed housing.
Housing Access Services can:
Assist with finding affordable furnishing and related household matters.
Housing Access Services can:
Pack and move your belongings.
Housing Access Services can:
Assist with application fees and deposits.
Karli’s parents worried about her moving out on her own
Housing Access Services helped find a place!
Karli five years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oDNArFLtfg
Housing Access Services: Loving the Freedom
Nathan needed help moving near his family in the neighborhood where he grew up.
John moved from a Nursing Home to a group home and then found a home of his own in Mankato
Tonya was homeless staying with friends and contacted Housing Access Services to help search for an accessible place.
