GATEWAY
Permanent Housing for
Chronically Homeless Persons with
Disabilities
Gateway is a Shelter Plus Care program that
uses funding from the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to provide permanent housing for the Chronically
Homeless.
Over the next 5 years, Gateway will provide
housing for 50 Chroncially Homeless individuals and families.
The primary goal of Gateway is to relieve
the most immediate and painful symptom of the chronically homeless:
having no place to call home. Stable housing then becomes a
Gateway to a more independent, healthy and dignified life.
According to the U.S. Dep't of
Health and Human Services SAMHSA report Blueprint for Change,
"Ending chronic homelessness among people with serious mental
illness and/or co-occurring substance use disorders is an achievable
goal (2003)." Gateway represents a step towards that goal
for Northwest Indiana.
Gateway provides client assistance with the following:
* Help in finding an apartment
* Payment of the application fee, security deposit, and monthly
rent and utilities
* Periodic assistance in the form of donated food/household items
* Ongoing case management support - at least two contacts per
month including one home visit
Unlike previous appproaches that
made housing assistance conditional upon certain behaviors like
sobriety or therapy attendance, Gateway follows the Housing
First model, which holds that other healthy choices will more
naturally follow once stable housing is in place. However, there
are certain limited expectations of participants.
Gateway Qualified Participants are:
Chronically homeless...
Living in places not intended for human habitation
(streets, cars, shelters, or abandoned buildings)
With one year of continuous homelessness or 4 documented
periods (one month or more) of homelessness over the last 3 years
And suffer from at least one of the following (as
documented by a licensed physician):
Mental illness
Drug Abuse Disorder
Gateway Participants must:
1. Commit to allowing at least two contacts/home
visits per month from Catholic Charities case managers.
2. Commit to contributing 30% of their income to
Catholic Charities to be applied toward their housing.
Location:
1128 Broadway
Gary, IN 46407
Program Coordinator:
Sister Barbara Sable, SSCM, MSW
(219) 886-3565
Case Managers:
Kay Hosmer
Roz Lyles
(219) 886-9096
