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54 Oregon HIV/AIDS Housing and Services Systems Integration Plan Action steps may include: • Conduct outreach to agencies that serve people released from prison and jail in Oregon, such as Sponsors and Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, and provide materials and education around HIV/AIDS and the HOPWA program to staff and clients. • Work with landlords (such as those in high vacancy areas) as well as community- and faithbased organizations who are willing to consider tenants with criminal histories, and help to build bridges between these landlords and community corrections officers and service providers. • Consider master leasing (an eligible HOPWA program activity) as a strategy to provide housing for clients who face the highest barriers to obtaining private market housing. • Connect with the Governor’s Reentry Task Force, whose members were announced in November 2007. • Explore opportunities to access federal and private resources to support the safe and successful transition of prisoners (including those with HIV/AIDS) to the community, such as the U.S. Department of Justice’s Prisoner Reentry Initiative. 90 Primary Care, Hospitals and Assisted Living 15. Anticipate that clients may need periodic or long-term care in assisted living situations while setting OHOP policies and allocating resources. Strategize ways to ensure that housing assistance can continue if clients must move temporarily or permanently into assisted living situations, including planning to make transitions smooth. Incorporate information on this emerging challenge in OHOP and HIV Care and Treatment staff trainings and discussion. Consider ways to provide services to clients in their own homes when appropriate, as an alternative to long-term hospitalizations. 16. Conduct outreach about emerging primary care and assisted living needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, including to providers of these services. Connect with the Oregon Health Care Association to raise awareness among members about the changing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring chronic diseases. Seek improved connections to and partnerships with hospitals and health care providers, including assisted-living providers, to promote the successful integration of people with HIV/AIDS into their services and seamless transitions from one setting to another. Ensure that health department and other outreach workers are educated and kept up to date on OHOP resources, program activities, and policies. Advocate to increase the availability of a continuum assisted living supports, using the challenges of people living with HIV/AIDS in gaining access to such supports to illustrate the need. Employment 17. Collaborate with workforce systems to provide employment supports and training for people living with HIV/AIDS. 90 Available online: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/reentry.html (Accessed: February 1, 2008).
Oregon HIV/AIDS Housing and Services Systems Integration Plan 55 Seek connections with Workforce Training One-Stop Centers: OHOP housing coordinators or HIV Care and Treatment case managers could meet with staff there, familiarize themselves with services offered, and offer to work collaboratively to support people with HIV. Additionally, identify agencies that provide life skills and benefits trainings for case managers and staff that focus on going back to work, and participate in these trainings. Encourage community- and faith-based partners to eliminate barriers to employment that are correlated with HIV/AIDS risk (such as histories of incarceration) and to hire people living with HIV/AIDS.
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