Supportive Housing Program

PURPOSE

The Supportive Housing Program (SHP) is authorized by title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. The program is designed to promote the development of supportive housing and supportive services, including innovative approaches to assist homeless persons in the transition from homelessness, and to promote the provision of supportive housing to homeless persons to enable them to live as independently as possible.

OVERVIEW

W.A.M.Y.’s Supportive Housing Program is designed to provide lease vouchers for six*chronically homeless, disabled individuals in Avery, Mitchell and/or Yancey counties for up to three years. W.A.M.Y. staff will work closely with local resources to help participants reach their individualized goals, including:

  • Receiving benefits to which they are entitled
  • Achieving independence in accordance with their abilities
  • Maintaining a degree of self-direction and dignity
  • All efforts will be made to provide housing within 5 miles of the towns of Newland, Spruce Pine, Burnsville, and/or Bakersville so that participants can more easily access community services.

* SHP is NOT designed for homeless

individuals living temporarily

with friends or relatives.

DEFINITIONS

SHP defines a chronically homeless individual as:

  1. One who has been continuously homeless for a year (e.g., sleeping in a place not fit for human habitation or in an emergency shelter)

OR

  1. One who has had four or more episodes of homelessness in a three-year period

SHP defines a disabling condition as:

  1. A diagnosable substance abuse disorder
  2. Serious mental illness
  3. Developmental disability

OR

  1. Chronic physical illness or disability

HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE?

Contact:

Debbie Bowman
SHP Director
828.733.0156
or by email at
averycsbg@bellsouth.net

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