Housing Navigation Services
Tired of being on the waitlist for a group home or certified residence?
Ready to move out of your family home?
Ready to move out of your Group Home and be more independent?
Spectrum Services can assist you in creating community-based housing alternatives utilizing all of the resources available to you. Our Housing Navigator will work with individuals or small groups to create a housing plan and move into their first or next home that meets their unique needs with appropriate long-term services and supports in place.
Consultations are available by appointment. The first 30 minute consultation is free and will introduce individuals and their families to the variety of services provided.
What is Housing Navigation?
Housing Navigation is a focused, outcome oriented, and time limited service that helps people with I/DD who need or want to move to community-based housing to obtain and maintain stable, long-term housing of their choice.
Housing Navigation services may include:
- Developing an individualized person-centered housing plan.
- Developing an individual housing budget including the optimization of benefits and financial consulting, if necessary
- Implementing a housing action plan which includes the person’s housing vision and housing budget
- Finding a Home in the community of choice
- Coordinating a move
- Housing sustainability plan and transition to ongoing service providers.
- Housing crisis resolution
Fee: $70/hour paid privately or budgeted into your Personal Resource Account (PRA). Housing Navigation Services can be added on in addition to your Broker Services, regardless of which Independent Broker you contract with.
**NYS Housing Navigators are required to take a 10 week training course through the New York Housing Resource Center. Currently, there are approximately 240 certified housing navigators in New York state.
For a complete list of Housing Navigators in Region 1 visit: https://nyhrc.org/resource/housing-navigator-directory/