Knowing your client's housing rights can make you a more effective service provider
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Health and social service providers often hear about housing issues that affect the health and well being of their clients and consumers.
Housing stability is a key factor in addressing other social needs of families you work with.
Knowing the basic housing rights and being able to intervene with good information, good technique can help your clients and consumers find and maintain stable rental households.
How
Fair Housing Rights Can Help Your Clients/Consumers!
Training
for health and social service providers in Richland County
November
27, 2012 1 PM-4PM
Area
Agency on Aging, 800 Park Ave. West
Mansfield,
OH 44906
Thanks to Richland County FH office (Donnie Mitchell and Sharon Rawls); Area Agency on Aging (Theresa Cook) and Richland County Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (Rebecca Owens, chairperson). What happened? 31 health and social service providers participated in the training. Emily Van Buren and Spencer Wells presented for COHHIO. Lillian Siebieda presented for Ohio Healthy Homes Network.
Questions and Discussion
Bedbugs: who pays for extermination? New court decision in wilmington that bars eviction for bedbugs in HUD assisted housing.
Who can pay for modifications for low income tenants? A participants suggests Rebuilding Together Central Ohio as a possible resource.
EvaluationComments
This will help me
with clients that rent so the will know what their rights are
A list of
federally funded housing would be beneficial to my job
Assist client with
making sound decision
I now have the
toll free number to call for more info/guidance; I now know I can be
more assertive in requesting landlords to help some of my clients
Most helpful
information pertinent to where I work was on Reasonable
Accommodations/Modification & how to request them and know what
request are appropriate & reasonable
I learn more
information and received contact # and website for help with Fair
Housing Rights for clients
Assist to increase
clients and knowledge of having rights
Gives me a
reference to refer to or call when issues now arise
I believe it will
assist when my clients have an issue to guide them to reasonable
solutions
Yes- more
confident on awareness of discrimination and recognition
Need more time for amount of
information
Put handouts
into a packet that is in order for presentation; copy of
power point
Provide the email
information earlier so I have more time to review it
More power points/Print out of Power
Points
How to become approved; Where HUD
homes are located; Difference between HUD and other federal programs. Neighborhood improvement programs
in area
Rules of applying to HUD housing,
who is eligible, what criteria have to be met
