No Place To Be Case Study

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Having No Place To Be
BBH creates new ways to help homeless clients prepare for stable housing
Much is going well for Terry after four years as a client at Bailey-Boushay House.
He’s taking HIV medication successfully. He practices harm-reduction techniques when using street drugs and alcohol. And he signed on as a peer educator in Project NEON (an outreach network for gay, bisexual and transgender men affected by crystal methamphetamine).
Despite all these successful moves to build stability into his life, Terry is discouraged and frustrated. He’s been homeless for more than two and a half years and sees no signs of hope in his housing search.
A desperate need for housing
The hardest part of being homeless is the “stress of having no stability,” he says. “You can’t …show more content…
They were safe, had private rooms and got plenty of practical support from staff at Bailey-Boushay and Lifelong.
Preventing hospitalizations was a primary and short-term goal that met with success as Terry and the others stayed out of the hospital. Building life skills to help find and keep permanent housing is a longer-term goal. Unfortunately, by winter’s end only a handful of clients moved into permanent housing.
Taking practical steps and the long view
This fall the Winter Motel, version 2.0, was rolled out as one part of a broader, year-round approach now called the Housing Stability Project.
“We don’t want to reinvent the wheel,” Brian says, “But we’ve learned that Bailey-Boushay has unique ways to help our clients be safer and healthy while homeless.”
Participation is always voluntary. Strategic incentives — whether a grocery gift card, sleeping bag, poncho or a volunteer furniture mover — inspire clients to keep working a housing plan, complete applications, meet with outside resources, and move through a skill-building

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