Stabilization Services

Bethany Homes provides permanent, safe, affordable housing for 24 families.  Bethany House Services offers a community center and seasonal activities, as well as a parking lot, playgound and outdoor picnic area.
 
Bethany Woods: First time home ownership.
 
Family Shelter Patnership Program (FSPP)
FSPP provides a coordinated, integrated approach to social work by bringing together five family shelters and a comprehensive network of supportive collaboraators to assist the families. A shared data system which flows from a central access point into the shelters though to outcome measurement is but one highlight of the program. 
 
FSPP served 2,024 high-risk homeless women and children with 83% success rate of achieving housing and income.
 
FSPP Agencies' Location

•           Bethany House Services – North Fairmount


•           Interfaith Hospitality Network - Lower Price Hill


•           YWCA’s Battered Women's Shelter – Clifton area


•           Mercy St. John – Main Street and ALI


•           The Salvation Army – downtown (Central Parkway)

 
FSPP – what we do:  We provide the shelters and the case management services to be able to best assist clients to move out of shelters and into housing.  (Permanent or Transitional.)  The case managers work closely with each other to collaborate and to assign monies from the allotted funds.
 
FSPP – Is Unique: All 5 agencies have bonded together to provide services under one HUD funded program,   We are the only work group in the Continuum of Care in Hamilton County, who provide a ‘service-based’ program to get people out of shelters and their homeless situations, and who do  get people into permanent housing.  Last fiscal year we served over 660 families in this program.  Over 448 of these clients went to permanent or Transitional housing upon exit.   A Vesta data report showed that in the years 2006-07, 86% of shelter clients only had one shelter stay during these 24 months.   This speaks to the strength of the case management provided to the shelter guests, who so often desperately need the services provided (IE: goal setting, problem solving, transportation, client education, parenting classes, day care options, etc.) by these shelters.  The shelters also provide the finances to assist needy families to access housing, by the ‘direct assistance’ monies for the purposes of:  rent, security deposits, back rent, assistance with utilities, and other essential items needed to restore housing.  A few shelters also provide aftercare programs to ensure that the clients are stable in their new homes (Mercy St. John, IHN).
 
The Central Access Point Line – was an initiative of the FSPP, as we saw a need to have one ‘central access point’ phone line for clients to better access homeless family shelters.  The CAP line officially ‘opened’ on 3-17-08, and in the first 5 months it received over 3700 calls.  The CAP line actually places homeless families into open, appropriate shelter beds.  It also provides referrals to other homeless services in the county, as needed.