Home. When I Think Of
2022 Annual Report
When we think of Home
When we think of home, we think of warmth, joy, community, relationships and safety. We can proudly say 2022 was a milestone year for the Center for Housing and Health, as we strove to help our neighbors and community share in those same sentiments. In partnership with public, private and community partners, the Flexible Housing Pool housed 1,000 people. We crafted our first full strategic plan, and we began implementing a transformational Race Equity Action Plan. As an organization that tackles issues contributing to homelessness and health disparities, we recognize addressing internal and external structures of racism is critical to building safer spaces where everyone can reach their full potential.
With Gratitude, Peter Toepfer, Executive Director
Kuliva Wilburn, Chair, Board of Directors
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Flexible Housing Pool
FHP ends homelessness and helps make communities healthier throughout Cook County by connecting individuals and families to stable homes, supportive services and healthcare they need and deserve.
30 days
In the last year, the average number of days from enrollment in FHP to housing placement.
343
Added 343 new units with a total of 193 landlords to its housing portfolio.
1002
324
324 youth households served. The FHP is the region's largest long-term housing program for Youth. With community partners, CHH coordinates a Youth Learning Collaborative for peer sharing to strengthen the youth homelessness system.
Adult FHP Clients Experienced the Following Reductions (Compared to Matched Controls)
ALL CASE MORTALITY IN-PATIENT DAY
Provided housing and wrap-around supportive services to 1002 individuals, Including 375 children in 582 households.
98% In 2022, FHP's overall 12 month retention rate was 98%.
37% 33%
EMERGENCY DEPT VISITS JAIL REGISTRATION
19% 22%
in life”.
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“A better home starts when you take those little things that can help an individual better themselves. That made a major difference
Derrick Lyons Meet
Years ago, Derrick Lyons was at his lowest. Struggling with being laid off, homelessness, addiction, and strained relationships with his family, Derrick’s mind wandered to dark places.
“I've never really told anybody this except for my therapist. I wanted to kill myself. The doctor said that's what happens when you’re on the streets for a long time. You’re by yourself, it was hard.”
Along with this, Derrick found himself in an unbearable cycle of going from shelter to shelter, only to be kicked out, and start over at another. This left walls up in Derrick, along with an uneasy level of distrust with most people claiming to have Derricks best interest at heart. In 2020,
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"I actually sleep there. I actually feel safe. I feel relaxed. I feel free. I really do. I feel like I'm a citizen.”
Derrick was connected to our Flexible Housing Pool team. Derrick began to feel more and more like himself. “I felt like a real person again. I became more talkative like I was in the past. I was usually very outgoing. I was doing it again, saying hi to people!” Derrick has been a part of the program for three years now and has grown tremendously in that time.
With the help of case managers, Derrick was able to get a sustainable apartment and finally after years of moving, feel safe and secure. Derrick now finds joy in his life, and is dedicating it to helping others, starting with working towards a degree in Social Work. Due to his involvement in the program, Derrick a became a peer mentor. Peer mentors help welcome newcomers to the program into their apartments in order to make them feel safe and part of the community. Since November, Derrick has been mentoring, talking on the phone each day with his mentee in order to make him feel at home.
“When I first talked to him, he felt a little uncomfortable, just like I was. He’s like, ‘I don't know you’. So we just talked and try to get to know each other.” After a while, much like Derrick, he began to open up. “He's very nice. It's awesome. He also is in college, he goes to the Art Institute, and likes cooking and photography. He sounds great. I haven't met him
since COVID, you know. But hopefully soon.”
Now Derrick faces new challenges, such as scheduling doctors' appointments, remembering to wash dishes, and homework. When asked about his apartment, Derrick was ecstatic. “I love it. I’m talking to neighbors. I actually sleep there. I actually feel safe. I feel relaxed. I feel free. I really do. I feel like I'm a citizen.”
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Connection to Harm Reduction
Connection to Harm Reduction (C2HR) assists people living in supportive housing with their relationship to drugs and alcohol through treatment navigation, overdose prevention & education, safer using supplies and in-home mental health counseling.
26 individuals
26 individuals received ongoing in-home substance use counseling services
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Provided 32 substance use treatment referrals
"I sleep good now. For a long time, I felt like I couldn’t get up, that I was stuck. But with their help, they got me to get on me feet and gave me the power to stay on my feet.”
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Conducted 13 Harm Reduction trainings for 285 service providers
384
Distributed 384 Narcan kits, used for overdose reversal
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PermanentSupportive housing
In partnership with community-based partners, CHH's Permanent Supportive Housing programs ensure people have affordable rent and wraparound supportive services without a time limit so they can reach their goals.
In 2022, 235 households received Permanent Supportive Housing including 28 families, and 68 children under the age of 18. OF THE HOUSEHOLDS ENROLLED IN 2022:
12 Months
In 2022, CHH housed 1,523 clients in 999 households.
99.52% (209) remained stably housed for at least 12 months.
24 Months
NON-BINARY/ GENDER NONCONFORMING/ GENDERQUEER
WHITE
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER, ASIAN/ASIAN AMERICAN, OR AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE
FEMALE
Race/ Ethnicity
BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN
90% remained stably housed for at least 24 months. Client Demographic MALE
48.6% 50.64% >1% 6
0.48% 99.52%
10% 90%
MULTI-RACIAL 18.52% 6.08% 1.16% .98% 73.26%
HISPANIC/LATINX
Race/Ethnicity
Race Equity Action Plan
The Center for Housing and Health (CHH), AFC and Morten Group LLC worked together to develop the 20222024 Race Equity Action Plan. The plan is a tool for embedding race equity in practices & partnerships to further a culture of inclusion, transparency, and belonging for all CHH stakeholders.
For staff, we invested $250k to increase CHH salaries to market rates.
We've increased the amount of funding to Black and Latina/o/e/x-led partner organizations to 33% of all sub-contracts. In 2022, CHH continued its ongoing work with the FHP Lived Experience Advisory Councils for Youth and Adults. FHP program participants and others with lived experience of homelessness provide input on program operations, governance, and how to achieve positive outcomes for individuals and families."
We know that the Race Equity Action Plan is not the sole solution for cultivating cultural competency within this organization. More work is ahead and feedback from community stakeholders is encouraged to improve future initiatives.
Coordinated Entry
The Center for Housing and Health (CHH) manages citywide outreach coordination for the Coordinated Entry System (CES) to maximize the number of individuals and families assessed for housing. This includes leading System Integration Team Meetings and supporting coordination between housing and homeless service providers to efficiently house CES applicants.
CHH's Coordinated Entry Team approved 175 household transfers to be transitioned from short term Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) to Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). 82 households within this cohort were successfully moved into PSH in 2022.
By the end of the year, there were approximately 4,200 people experiencing literal homelessness enrolled in the Chicago Coordinated Entry System. CHH facilitated the work of over 90 Skilled Assessors who completed approximately 11,969 housing assessments. We also facilitated 15 Housing System Navigators who ensured 732 households formerly experiencing homelessness enter permanent housing solutions.
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Looking Ahead
Through the combined efforts of our staff, leadership, landlords and clients, we are strengthening the foundation of our home as an organization. This is fundamental to our programs, policies and plans and supporting hundreds of individuals and families in finding a new or better home.
When CHH thinks of home, we think of the safety a home brings and what is needed to put the finishing touches on making a home complete. We embarked on this question in the development of our first
strategic plan. For 2023-2025 we outlined 4 major goals:
Center Racial
Equity in practices & partnerships to further a culture of inclusion, transparency, and belonging for all CHH stakeholders.
Strengthen Organizational Infrastructure
to ensure sufficient support for staff & to accommodate ongoing expansion of quality services.
Collaborate through Partnerships
to increase housing resources & supportive services for individuals & families impacted by homelessness through the convening of a cross-sector network of partners & stakeholders.
Enhance National Leadership CHH will serve as a national leader by elevating housing as the primary social determinant of health through modeling accepted best practices and exploring new service models to spur advancements in the housing sector.
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9 Support and Revenue Government grants $13,845,538.00 Flexible Housing Pool grants $11,729,672.00 Contributions $517,886.00 Total Support and Revenue $26,093,096.00 Expenses Program services $24,089,499.00 Management and general $665,485.00 Total Expenses $24,754,984.00 Change in net assets Net assets, beginning of year $1,565,287.00 Net assets, end of year $2,903,399.00 Total change in net assets $1,338,112.00
Information 53.07% 1.98% 44.95% SUPPORT AND REVENUE GOVERNMENT GRANTS FHP GRANTS MANAGEMENT & FUNDS PROGRAM SERVICES CONTRIBUTIONS 97.31% 2.69% EXPENSES 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Change in net assets $1.5M $2.9M E.O.Y.** *BEGINNING OF YEAR **END OF YEAR B.O.Y.*
Financial
Funders/Partners/Board Members
CHH Funders
Advocate Aurora Health
All Chicago Anonymous
Blue Cross Blue Sheild of Illinois Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Department of Family & Supportive Services
Chicago Department of Housing
Chicago Housing Authoirty
The City of Chicago
Cook County Health
CountyCare
Corporation for Supportive Housing
The Crown Family
Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust
Illinois Department of Human Services
Meridian Health Plan of Illinois
Michael Reese
Medical Home Network
The Northern Trust Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trust
South Side Health Communities Collaborative
Service Coordination and Navigation (SCaN)
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System
Wellness West
CHH Housing Partners
Ascension Alexian Brothers Housing and Health Alliance
Chicago House
Christian Community Health Center
Deborah's Place
Hearland Human Care Services
Heartland Alliance Health
Housing Forward
Inner Voice
La Casa Norte
North Side Housing and Supportive Services
Primo Center
Renaissance Social Services Inc.
The Night Ministry
Thresholds
Unity Parenting
The Boulevard
Board Members
Peter Toepfer, Center for Housing and Health, Executive Director
Kuliva Wilburn, Wilburn Strategic Solutions, Chair
Joanna Trotter, Chicago Community Trust, Vice Chair
Chad Thompson, Lyceum Leadership Consulting,Treasurer
Stephanie Altman, Shriver Center on Poverty Law, Secretary
Dr. Paviella Foster, Chief Programs Officer at Howard Brown, Member
Simone Koehlinger, AIDS Foundation Chicago, Member
Chris O’Hara, Thresholds, Member
Richard Powell, Planned Parenthood of IL, Member
Christy Prahl, Crown Family Philanthropies, Member
Alejandro Segura, JP Morgan Chase, Member
CHH honors every person’s right to a home and healthcare, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of Chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Every person has a place to call home that helps them reach their full potential.
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