BENEFITS

To Residents: Service Coordination Benefits to residents include, but not limited to:

• Keep seniors living independently by providing referrals to appropriate supportive services.
• Enhance self-esteem and self-sufficiency by promoting involvement and participation in the housing development and the community.
• Increase safety as needs for assistance are more quickly recognized and addressed.
• Support a positive social environment that promotes a sense of community both within and outside of the housing development through a mutual exchange of resources and activities.
• Increase the ability to meet basic needs and financial obligations through utilization of job training programs, entitlement programs, and other community resources.
• Improve the quality of services that residents receive through regular contact with outside agencies.

To Owners/Managers: Service Coordination Benefits to Owners/Managers include, but are not limited to:

• Enhance the development's standing in the local community and improves marketability. Gives the development a competitive edge within the local housing market.
• Protect investment by reducing turnover, damages, vacancy losses, and evictions.
• Reduce resident phone calls, interruptions, and complaints related to residents’ loneliness, inactivity, unmet service needs, personal problems, and resident conflicts.
  Reduce crisis management through early intervention.
• Increase knowledge of services provided in the area and improves working relationships with community service providers.
• Increase residents’ knowledge of the obligations of tenancy.
  

To Service Providers: Service Coordination Benefits to Service Providers include, but are not limited to:

• Create the potential for more efficient service delivery due to economies of scale, the availability of on-site service coordinators, and the possibility of resource and/or cost sharing.
• Result in a better understanding of housing programs and a more cooperative relationship with housing management staff.
• Increase housing plus services options in the community, thus increasing housing for special populations who may need some assistance to live independently.