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Housing Options provides four component services that
integrate with our Supported Housing and Community Support programs.
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Supported Housing
The Supported Housing programs provide rental
assistance to individuals diagnosed with mental illness who meet low
income guidelines. This program pays a portion of the rent for
qualified individuals, with the recipient paying the balance.
- In addition to housing assistance, qualified users receive regularly
scheduled visit from Peer Advocates. The Peer Advocates, qualified
and directed by Housing Options, visit our clients on a monthly bases to
check up on how they are doing. We are devoted to improving
connections within the community and also helping with daily living
skills to create a wholesome environment so avoid the need for
expensive treatments. Many of our consumers are able to live on
their own without hospitalization. We have several
programs to help the individual become a productive member of society.
Our programs have been exceedingly effective towards this end.
Hospitalization is expensive to the community and often a difficult
environment for the consumer.
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Peer Services
Peer Advocacy
and Peer Advocacy Training
Trained Peer Advocate Specialists provide
supportive assistance based on needs agreed upon with the recipient of
the service. Peer advocates are current or former recipients of mental
health services who have encountered similar experiences.
The Peer Advocate Services include:
 | Locating and securing safe, affordable housing
in a community of an individual's choice. |
| Providing resources and support to enhance daily
living skills such as budgeting, shopping and navigating a new
community. |
| Tools to develop a network of supports in the
community including self-help and advocacy groups. |
| Skills to address individual access to and
engagement in individualized mental health treatment services. |
| Peer sharing of symptom and medication
management systems. |
| Sharing learning for self advocacy skills.
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Self Help
Self-Help Support Groups
Housing Options' Support Programs developed a variety of
self-help groups to encompass the wide range of support services
requested by recipients.
- Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR) is developed through the
Empowerment Program to provide 12-Step recovery that acknowledges the
relationship between addiction and mental health as well as the need
to address medication and recovery.
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- Wed ~ 5:30-7:30PM @ Housing Options 75 Jamestown St,
Gowanda Wed 3-4 PM @ Drop In Center, 413 N Union St, Olean. 373-7204
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- Housing Options Parenting (Jamestown) provides peer
support to parents with mental illness who are separated from children
or desire to build parenting skills.
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- Friendship Resource and Peer Support
Line
- (WarmLine) Toll Free : 1-877-426-4373 (1-877-I AM HERE)
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- The Friendship Line operates 60 hours per week to provide
telephone peer support in non-crisis situations, covering three
counties. Peer telephone operators employ problem solving skills and
resources from a bank of more than 3,000 materials to
callers.
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- Gowanda Garden Club Meetings are 1st Thurs of the month, 7PM.
Call 532-5731 for more information.
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