Specifications include, but are not limited to: CT Probation Rapid Rehousing Program provides housing placement and stabilization services, as necessary, to assist the literally homeless in shelters or in places not meant for human habitation to move as quickly as possible out of homelessness and into permanent housing. Program participants will receive time-limited housing supports and strategies with the ultimate goal of housing stability. For the purposes of this proposal, participants will be individuals currently under probation supervision and who may be homeless, living in a shelter, temporary transitional housing program, behavioral health treatment, or unstably housed. Referrals will be received from Hartford Adult Probation. The length of the program will be approximately 3-4 months but can be extended with approval from the JBCSSD. DOH and JBCSSD anticipates that the caseload size for any case manager would be 20 households at any given time. CT Probation Rapid Rehousing Program will employ interconnected strategies to ensure programmatic effectiveness. These strategies are as follows: a. Collaborating with Hartford Probation staff in reviewing referrals, including the Level of Service Inventory (LSI); b. Collaborating with Hartford Probation staff in conducting intake, screening, and housingbased assessment; c. Housing search, landlord recruitment, and relocation assistance; d. Critical Time Intervention (CTI) and housing stabilization and sustainability supports, including linkages to community services; and e. Access existing financial assistance (through DOH’s Rapid Re-housing Financial Assistance fund administered by Advancing Connecticut Together (ACT). The respondent’s proposed CT Probation Rapid Rehousing Program must be led by a qualified organization, which will act as respondent and contractor, and which will assume primary responsibility for the success of the program.
