Technical Assistance for Supportive Housing and other direct service providers

We help providers build the knowledge and capacity needed to successfully implement services and meet the needs of the people they serve. Our team is offering virtual trainings and events,  tools and templates for your agency and agency specific technical assistance. Check out our web site regularly to see what is offered and reach out via the HSS-TATEAM@mesh-mn.org email to request what support will best help your agency make this transition. Our team is looking forward to a collaborative process with agencies that meets their unique needs

Supporting direct service providers

Notice of Availability: Housing Stabilization Services Technical Assistance for 2024

The Housing Stabilization Services TA Team provides one-on-one, light-touch technical assistance at no charge to the agency. This includes:

Responding to basic Housing Stabilization Services related questions via email
hss-tateam@mesh-mn.org

Availability of TA is subject to the team’s capacity. We will do our best to get to everyone in a timely manner. Prior to sending in questions or requests for Technical Assistance, please review the materials available on our website:

Consultations via ZOOM

Initial meeting of one hour and one to two follow-up meetings.
Initial meeting:

  • “How to get started” primer OR
  • General Q&A for agencies already in the implementation phase

Potential follow-up meeting topics:

  • General Q&A
  • High-level implementation planning
  • Individual eligibility process (how to identify potential clients, gather documentation, complete application process)
  • Documenting services (case noting, gathering info needed for billing)
  • Billing (systems, MCOs)
  • Staffing and service implementation (hiring staff, best practices, culture change, initial/ongoing training, supervision)
  • Combining funding and integrating with other health care services
  • Quality assurance and compliance

Guidance on your agency’s Housing Stabilization  Services Materials

Email us your documents, and we will review and send feedback. Availability of TA is subject to the team’s capacity. We will do our best to get to everyone in a timely manner. Example documents to review:

  • Provider enrollment application
  • Policies and procedure manual
  • Budget plan
  • Example housing consultation plans/Individual eligibility materials
  • Individual service plan template and examples
  • Case note template and examples
  • Quality assurance plan
  • Staff training and supervision plan
  • Other materials as needed

Supporting Community-Wide Systems Planning

We help local communities and tribes create a vision for successful integration of Housing Stabilization Services within a region’s homeless response system and develop a plan to achieve their goals.  Areas of support include:

  • Outreach to housing and homeless service providers and other key stakeholders emphasizing the potential positive impact of Housing Stabilization Services necessary
  • Facilitation of community meetings with the purpose of creating a vision for successful integration of Housing Stabilization Services within a region’s homeless response system
  • Assessment of community capacity and needs with a plan for improvement
  • Systems/person-centered process mapping and initial networking development
  • Collaborating with statewide and local efforts to end homelessness.

HSS Community Planning: Getting Started: This document outlines ideas about how to ensure that this tool to end homelessness is implemented successfully in your community.

Improving Systems and Advocacy

The Housing Stabilization Services TA Team aims to drive policy and administrative advocacy, informed by service providers and people with lived experience, to reduce barriers and improve program implementation for current and potential HSS providers and clients. This work includes:

  • Convening service providers and people with lived experience to identify actionable solutions to improve program delivery and Housing Stabilization Services uptake for new service providers, especially rural and culturally specific providers.
  • Building and maintaining relationships with state agency staff.
  • Engaging with legislators and staff, Governor’s office staff, and other key stakeholders to contextualize HSS benefits and program implementation challenges and advancing an achievable policy agenda through a lobbyist-led effort.

Housing Stabilization Services Two Year Recommendations: Summarizes learnings from providing technical assistance over the first two years of implementation of HSS, highlights the successes of the new benefit, and outlines opportunities for improvement within the HSS program based on experience and provider feedback.

  • Click HERE to sign up for our Listserv.

Specific policy questions about the new benefit should be directed to the Housing Division at the Department of Human Services at dhshousingstabilization@state.mn.us.

Questions? Email the HSSTA Team at hss-tateam@mesh-mn.org