Services
Housing Options provides four component services that integrate with our Supported Housing and Community Support programs.
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.
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.
Self Help
Self-Help Support Groups Housing Options's 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. 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 Housing Options Parenting (Jamestown) provides peer support to parents with mental illness who are separated from children or desire to build parenting skills.
Gowanda Garden Club Meetings are 1st Thurs of the month, 7PM. Call 532-5731 for more information.
Warm Line
Friendship Resource and Peer Support Line (WarmLine) Toll Free: 1-877-426-4373 (1-877-I AM HERE) 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.