Canadian Mental Health Association Hastings Prince Edward - Addiction Supportive Housing (ASH) Program

Program provides addiction case management services coupled with a housing supplement to assistindividuals with problematic substance to secure and maintain safe stableindependent housing use who are homeless, at risk of homelessness orinadequately housed. The program is coordinated out of Belleville and providesa defined number of subsidies in Hastings/Prince Edward Counties,Kingston/Frontenac/Lennox & Addington and Lanark/Leeds and Grenville.

Program is not an emergency housing program and there is limited availability

Applicants to the Addiction Supportive Housing (ASH) Program of South East Ontario will be screened to ensure that primary eligibility requirements are met. Applications will also be reviewed to determine: the degree to which the applicant meets other identified admission criteria, and the appropriateness of the client/program match.

Eligibility requirements include persons with a problematic substance use who

• Are involved in or completed an addictions treatment program
  
• Have a history of multiple entries in the treatment continuum
  
• Are homeless, at risk of being homeless or inadequately housed
  
• Are unable to obtain or maintain housing without support
  
• Have a willingness to identify harm reduction or abstinence substance use goal(s)
  
• Have the capability and willingness to constructively participate in the ASH program

Age Requirements: Ages: 16 year(s) and up;

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