Executive Summary Community Opportunity Fund (COF) was awarded a contract through the Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge: Healthy Affordable Housing in May 2019 to deliver the Telehealth Intervention Programs (TIPs) at Grace West Manor, Newark, New Jersey, a 429-unit Section 8 senior and family property. Fannie Mae’s Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge collaborates across sectors to support innovative projects that are tackling the challenges of delivering stable, healthy, and affordable housing. TIPs is a multi-award-winning, affinity and congregate setting, multi-disciplinary, intergenerational, high-tech/high-touch, remote patient monitoring program enhanced with wraparound social services programs targeting low-income, high health risk, underserved communities. This report sets out the progress made during the course of the 2-year Fannie Mae contract, with key results and achievements. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The TIPs Classic model was based on a congregate setting program. In-person sessions were held twice-weekly on site, in the Grace West Senior Community Room and in the Community Center that serves the Townhomes. After a successful pre-launch awareness and marketing campaign and detailed consultation with resident groups, TIPs was launched in September 2019. The program was extremely popular with residents, and the target of 200 enrollees which had been set for the entire 2-year program was achieved within a few months. The telehealth screenings were supported and enhanced by multiple health-related social programs.
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