Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is an intervention that combines affordable housing assistance with voluntary support services to address the needs of chronically homeless people. The services are designed to build independent living and tenancy skills and connect people with community-based health care, treatment and employment services.
Below are some important resources to help enhance Permanent Supportive Housing across the Michigan Balance of State Continuum of Care.
Below are some important resources to help enhance Permanent Supportive Housing across the Michigan Balance of State Continuum of Care.
MIBOSCOC PSH Written Standards
Written standards are important to our COC to ensure that all programming across the Michigan Balance of State follows a consistent approach. This consistency helps maintain a high level of quality and reliability in the services provided to end homelessness.
Documenting Chronicity
These resources provide a way to help record Chronic Homelessness for those projects that need documentation of Chronic Homelessness (like a Permanent Supportive Housing program that exclusively serves the Chronically Homeless).
Written standards are important to our COC to ensure that all programming across the Michigan Balance of State follows a consistent approach. This consistency helps maintain a high level of quality and reliability in the services provided to end homelessness.
- MIBOSCOC PSH Written Standards: Click here
Documenting Chronicity
These resources provide a way to help record Chronic Homelessness for those projects that need documentation of Chronic Homelessness (like a Permanent Supportive Housing program that exclusively serves the Chronically Homeless).
- Chronicity Self Certification Form: Click here
- Use this when you are attempting to document chronicity and the individual or family needs to self certify a portion of their homeless history. (see chronic documentation policy for more information)
- MIBOSCOC Chronic Documentation Policy: Click here
- Refer to this when attempting to document chronicity for any individual or family.
- Chronic Documentation Checklist: Click here
- Use this documentation checklist and form to complete the documentation requirements for chronic homelessness.
Match Resources
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Template Click here
- This is the MOU that is recommended for all in-kind match from Community Mental Health providers (CMH's) or other health services. If you must adjust more than the names and dates in it, be very careful not to alter any meanings. The wording is specific to fit all criteria. If you have an existing MOU signed, then you can use the version with the word "addendum" in the title. You should add this information to your current MOUs in case you are monitored.
- This is the MOU that is recommended for all in-kind match from Community Mental Health providers (CMH's) or other health services. If you must adjust more than the names and dates in it, be very careful not to alter any meanings. The wording is specific to fit all criteria. If you have an existing MOU signed, then you can use the version with the word "addendum" in the title. You should add this information to your current MOUs in case you are monitored.
- In Kind Match Request Form Click here
- Use this form to track match quarterly (at minimum). You may use a different format, but do not include less information than is on this form.
- HUD Exchange Virtual Binder Click here
- Please visit, bookmark, and regularly review the match information within the HUD virtual binder. Please pay especially close attention to the in-kind match requirements and documentation.
Discussion Guide to Accompany the MIBOSCOC Training Site Click here
- Use this discussion guide to accompany the MIBOSCOC PSH trainings located on the training page of this website. Discuss these questions and topics with your teams after watching the training. Refer back to them as needed when reinforcing the fundamentals of PSH and Housing Based Case Management.