Through our Transitional Living Program we offer our residents a wide array of on-site supportive services - case management, recovery, occupational therapy, and spiritual care. Individual sessions and group services are provided in all areas, including psychosocial support groups such as HIV-support, sobriety support, life skills, and spiritual discussion. The following services help residents return to independent life in the community within a 24-month period:

• AIDS and Homelessness
• Admission Criteria
• Case Management
• Occupational Therapy
• Recovery Services
• Spiritual Care

In cooperation with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Alexian Brothers AIDS Ministry implemented a Transitional to Permanent Housing (TPH) program in 2008. Through this program, 19 homeless individuals with HIV will be placed in scattered site housing with intensive case management. Scattered site housing is one way to support those who have graduated from the Transitional Living Program and now need an affordable place to live. This program is expected to increase the success rate of individuals living independently by providing them with access to permanent housing and supportive services.

The Samaritan Housing Program is a collaboration of 11 Chicago‐based health, housing and homeless services providers, designed to:

• Move chronically homeless individuals with chronic medical illnesses, including mental illness, into stable, permanent housing as quickly as possible; and
• Provide comprehensive wraparound services and intensive case management to improve housing and health outcomes among this highly vulnerable homeless population.

The Samaritan Housing Program supports the “housing first” priorities set forth by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

By coordinating access to a range of permanent supportive housing options, from low‐demand to sobriety‐based programs, scattered‐site and project‐based units, housing for women and for persons with HIV/AIDS, as well as housing for persons with mental illness/substance abuse issues, the program is designed to be highly responsive to the diverse needs and preferences of its target population, and to flexibly address existing gaps in the continuum of care by building housing and service capacity where it is most required.

The addition of wrap around services strengthens the Samaritan Program by helping residents transition from living on the streets to living in permanent housing. These services help to address the root cause of homeless for the individual so that he or she can break the cycle.

The program will offer 195 total housing units. Twenty of these units will be managed by Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House.

For more information, please call Sarah Bruce at 773-327-9921 ext 140.