Housing Access Services

Presenter: Scott Schifsky, Program Director The Arc Minnesota

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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.

For more information contact

Scott Schifsky, Director 651-604-8055 or scotts@arcmn.org