CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY

Programs

1. Chicago Houses 340B Pharmacy Services Program essentially forms a three-member team for participating clients: an HIV medical case manager, a pharmacist, and the participating client work together to keep the participant medication adherent and their viral load undetectable. Case management empowers individuals living with HIV to remain healthy and independent, receiving services such as medical appointment and medication adherence support, financial assistance, insurance navigation, behavioral health and substance use resources, and transportation assistance.

   $11,390,942 spent$156,931 earned by the program
   48% of program spending

2. Scattered site housing - the gaining ground program links housing services with chicago house's employment program. Clients in gaining ground develop the skills necessary to return to work and increase their income level, moving them to greater self-sufficiency and ultimately allowing the housing subsidies to pass to others beginning the employment process. The hospital to housing program (hhp) and the samaritan program are scattered site housing programs which provide stable, safe housing for individuals with a chronic medical illness, such as hiv/aids, who are homeless or lack permanent housing. Under these programs, case managers find attainable housing for the chronically ill and homeless by locating interim housing until permanent housing becomes available or by placing clients directly into permanent housing. Family ties, finally home and housing first are three additional scattered site housing programs that provide stable and safe housing for chronically ill individuals who are homeless. The family ties program houses 10 families while finally home and housing first primarily house single individuals, each housing anywhere from 15 to 20 households. The housing advocacy…

   $6,489,291 spentof which $3,176,927 as grants
   28% of program spending

3. Residential housing - the family support program offers housing, case management, and other supportive services to 15 hiv/aids affected families that include over 25 dependent children. Designed for families facing homelessness and poverty in addition to hiv/aids, the program works intensively with both the parents and the children. The supportive living program is a 16-unit group living facility in chicago's west town neighborhood, which provides the "first step" of housing and supportive services to adults living with hiv/aids who came directly from the streets or the shelter system; this facility is staffed 24 hours. The independent living program is a 24-unit apartment building in uptown, providing permanent housing to adults living with hiv/aids in need of affordable housing with supportive services available to meet intermittent needs.

   $2,752,020 spentof which $97,165 as grants
   12% of program spending

4. Prevention - h.o.p.e. (healthy, outreach, prevention and education). Historically, aids prevention focused on those who were hiv negative, helpting them to not become positive. Since 2002, chicago house pioneered the prevention with positives initiative with one underlying principle: every new infection is contracted from someone who is already hiv impacted. If "safe" practices can be encouraged among those who are hiv positive, it can help stem the tide of aids whole keeing those already impacted from contracting a drug resistant strain of hiv. The h.o.p.e. Department is an hiv prevention program involving three core services: hiv testing and counseling, care coordination for persons living with hiv and care navigation for individuals at high risk for hiv. Hiv testing and counseling is provided for persons living with hiv who are having difficulty maintaining safer sex or needle sharing behaviors. Factors that may impact a client's ability to maintain safer behaviors include: mental illness, homelessness or risk of homelessness, domestic violence, and substance abuse. The hiv prevention counselor works one-on-one with clients to assist them with achieving risk reduction goals.…

   $1,016,801 spentof which $53,338 as grants
   4% of program spending

5. Community case management programthe most cost efficient way to deal with the issue of homelessness is to keep people out of the system from the start. As early as 1992, chicago house began doing community case management with people who were becoming increasingly ill with aids, helping them to get the support (legal, food, utility assistance) and benefits (medicare, medicaid, disability) they needed to remain in their own homes and not become homeless. With the focus on treatment being a critical prevention strategy to ending the hiv/aids epidemic, chicago house now co-locates several case managers into hospitals/medical clinics to provide a more integrated level of care for clients. By locating the case managers at hospital and clinics, case managers become part of the care team rather than an outsider to that team. Medical information is more readily accessible to the case managers which can be used in real time to enhance and strengthen medical linkage and adherence. Today chicago house serves over 200 individuals a year by providing them these needed support services in the comfort of their own home.

   $824,671 spentof which $220 as grants
   4% of program spending

6. The translife care (tlc) program encompasses transgender housing, employment services, legal services, linkage to medical care, case management, and drop-in resource support and referral. The tlc currently offers the nation's most comprehensive services to transgender individuals. In addition to serving individuals, tlc programming includes the provision of cultural competency training to medical, legal, and social service providers in the chicago area.

   $582,016 spentof which $16,239 as grants
   2% of program spending

7. Employment program is designed to help unemployed adults with hiv secure and retain productive employment to ensure that they do not need to rely solely on subsidized medical care, housing, and supportive services. A three day training workshop, career counseling, mentorship and internship opportunities are the services provided to help clients achieve greater self-sufficiency and productivity, ultimately leading to successful employment. Job development services were recently added as a core program element to more readily identify job opportunities in the public and private sectors.

   $435,196 spentof which $75,082 as grants
   2% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,490,937.