Housing Programs
Dedicated to offering safe housing, essential resources, and personalized support to individuals and families in Springfield, empowering them to regain stability, independence, and a brighter future.
Transitional Housing Program
In existence since 1986, our transitional housing program provides male and female individuals with single room living quarters and comprehensive services to enable them to become independent, productive members of society. Clients are required to work with the case manager to identify and address barriers to independent living. Issues addressed include, but are not limited to, substance abuse, violence, life skills, budgeting and financial responsibility, mental and physical health, employment, education, and developing a healthy support network. Residents may participate in transitional housing for up to 18 months before moving to permanent housing.
Housing Advocacy Service (Norman Program)
This program is contracted through the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. A housing specialist works with families who are at risk of losing custody of their children due to homelessness or near homelessness, to find safe, affordable housing and keep the family unit intact. Supportive services are provided to help the family address the issues that brought them to this crisis and to help to stabilize them before, during and after housing placement.
Illinois Statewide Housing (ISHOP)
This program is provided in the lower 55 counties of Illinois and offers crucial support to ensure housing stability and overall well-being for persons living with HIV. This comprehensive program provides a wide range of assistance, including housing referrals, help with rent, security deposits, mortgage payments, and utility assistance, tailored to meet the unique needs of each participant. ISHOP is designed to offer both short-term and long-term support, recognizing that stability and security are key to managing health and quality of life.
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Project Based Permanent Supportive Housing Program
This program offers permanent housing units to individuals and families living with a disabling condition (primarily HIV). Tenants are approved through the SHA and rent is calculated based on income as the units have Section 8 vouchers attached to them. Individuals living in permanent housing are afforded a multitude of services including case management, advocacy and other supportive services.
Community Based Permanent Housing Program (PSH)
The same services as our project based permanent housing except apartments are located throughout the community and serve those who are homeless or chronically homeless and HIV+ individuals or disabled individuals and families.
Cook Street Renaissance
A 19-unit apartment complex providing affordable housing to low and extremely low-income, often disabled individuals. The program also offers other support services to foster stability including case management, life skills groups, HIV awareness education, free safe sex kits, food and household pantry, transportation and access to other community services through the referral process.
Youth Service Program (YIC)
This program is also contracted through the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The program assists youth (17-21 years old) who are former wards of the state to prevent them from becoming homeless or assist with issues of homelessness which are a result of being released from the states foster care system.
Rapid Re-Housing
The primary goal of the RRH program is to reduce the duration of homelessness and help participants achieve long-term housing stability through the provision of financial assistance and case management. The program is designed to be a short- to medium-term intervention, with a focus on empowering participants to maintain housing independently after the assistance ends
Reintegration Project
The Reintegration Project assists individuals who have been released from the Illinois Department of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities or County/City Jails and are HIV+. The program works to identify and secure housing as well as health and social services for the individual and their drug or sex sharing partners to prevent the spread of HIV, enable them to lead more productive lives, reduce recidivism to incarceration and develop a “continuity of care” service and referral system for the clients.