Colleagues,
If your organization owns or manages affordable housing sites, or, if you know of colleagues outside your organizations who may want to know about a new subsidized housing initiative described below, please pass this information on.
COLLAGE will be selecting 15 to 25 subsidized housing sites nationally to participate in a demonstration laboratory and mini-consortium of sites that will have access to the COLLAGE comprehensive assessment tools when the new web-based software in launched later this year. A short application and program description including implementation steps, site expectation, and participation timeline are available on line here. Or, cut and paste this address into your Internet browser: http://collageaging.org/Site/Docs/Application_for_Living_lab.pdf.
Applications are due no later than May 18.
Testing Assessment Data Collections Methods
COLLAGE wants to expand the current COLLAGE membership to subsidized housing sites nationally. We recognize that many housing sites may have very limited staff and/or technology resources. Still, we want to explore options for operationalizing this program. Our key question is: how do subsidized housing sites effectively collect assessment information despite very limited staff or technology resources? How do sites best secure internal and external resources to implement the identified interventions and programs needed by clients? Our goal is to test different assessment data collection methods and identify the most effective and viable ones.
Rationale for Using COLLAGE Assessments in Subsided Housing
Using the COLLAGE integrated assessment information tool to capture essential health and wellness information has great potential to help resource-deprived subsidized housing older adults live and age more successfully. Similarly, aging services organizations who offer affordable housing services are looking for ways to improve their ability to advise their clients on matters of health, wellness and successful aging; improve their management of risk; and more successfully link their clients to targeted community program and services that facilitate independence and reduce the risk of premature institutionalization.
Cost
The cost for subsidized housing sites to participate in this demonstration lab is $400/year, or, if a site has less than 80 clients, $5/client/year.
Participants
We have already selected over 10 sites in areas including Portland, ME; Fairport, NY; Atlanta, GE; and Columbus and Waverly, OH. We expect additional sites to apply before the May 18 deadline. We will select a diverse group with reference to geographic region, clientele, size and denomination, whenever possible.
For more information, don't hesitate contacting me.
Program Manager
COLLAGE, The Art & Science of Healthy Aging
An Integrated Assessment Tool and Person-Centered Process to Advance Healthy Aging and Improve Outcomes |
