Integrating Long-Term Supports with Affordable Housing

ARKANSAS

Grant Information


Name of Grantee

Department of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS)

Title of Grant

Affordable Housing with Long-Term Supports

Type of Grant

Integrating Long-Term Supports with Affordable Housing

Amount of Grant

$900,000

Year Original Funding Received

2004

Contact Information


Kris Baldwin
Program Administrator, DAAS
PO Box 1437-S530
Little Rock, AR 72203-1437
501-682-8509
kris.baldwin@arkansas.gov

Subcontractor(s)

NCB Development Corporation (NCBDC)

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
School
of Architecture

Target Population(s)


All persons who are currently residents of nursing facilities and those at risk of nursing facility placement.

Goals


  • Establish an affordable housing with long-term supports (AHLTS) workgroup consisting of consumers, providers, and stakeholders to guide grant activities.
  • Develop a needs and resource analysis for AHLTS.
  • Create and implement an adult foster care (AFC) initiative and an affordable assisted living (AAL) expansion initiative.
  • Develop tools and technical assistance for the AFC and AAL initiatives and implement demonstration projects.
  • Develop and implement universal design standards for state implementation to promote housing accessibility statewide.
  • Provide training and dissemination on grant activities to consumers, providers, developers, and state staff to transfer knowledge and create sustainable capacity.

Activities


  • Develop state infrastructure to support innovative settings offering high levels of care that are sustainable, easily integrated into neighborhoods, and viable in small, rural markets.
  • Formulate efficient business models to foster the rapid development of innovative AFC and AAL initiatives.
  • Implement development financing, demonstration projects, and a registry of affordable supportive housing to promote access to a wide variety of community-based options.

Abstract


The overall goals of this project being administered by the Division of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) under the Arkansas Department of Human Services will be to (1) partner with persons with disabilities of all ages and other stakeholders in a workgroup to identify current and innovative models of AHLTS, create a short-term and a 10-year plan to meet Arkansas's needs, and implement the plan; (2) conduct a county-level needs and resource analysis for community-based care options to direct state activities and provide planning estimates; (3) address the immediate need for affordable AFC and assisted living options by implementing and modifying policy, program, and development infrastructure to facilitate their creation; (4) create universal design standards for state implementation to promote housing accessibility statewide; (5) provide financial and development tools (including universal design standards), technical assistance, and financing to create and help replicate demonstration projects; (6) provide training and dissemination on grant activities to consumers, providers, developers, and state staff to transfer knowledge and create sustainable capacity; and (7) develop and maintain a housing registry to facilitate linkages to community-based sheltering arrangements.

Some of the major outcomes include meaningful consumer involvement in state planning efforts leading to improvement in consumer satisfaction; development of state infrastructure to support innovative settings offering high levels of care that are sustainable, easily integrated into neighborhoods, and viable in small, rural markets; formulation of efficient business models to foster the rapid development of these innovative models; and implementation of development financing, demonstration projects, and an affordable supportive housing registry to promote access to a wide variety of community-based options.