Housing Navigation 101 - Beta Test 1

Prosperity Indiana, with support from Humana and in partnership with HealthVision Midwest and Indiana Primary Health Care Association, has developed a five-module housing navigation course designed specifically for community health workers (CHWs). Housing Navigation 101 will increase community health workers’ understanding of how government-funded housing programs operate and expand community health workers’ ability to direct patients and clients to healthy housing.

The course was created specifically for community health workers’ needs and delivered by subject matter experts in both health and affordable housing sectors. Two beta tests of the course will be conducted to ensure that the curriculum effectively meets learner needs and course goals. This is the first opportunity to participate in one of the two beta tests. 

Primary Learning Objectives:

• Financial Management: Participants will learn how credit scores work, how to use credit wisely, where they can pull free credit reports from, and how to determine housing affordability using housing ratios.
• Housing Program Types: Participants will have a general understanding of federal and state housing program types. 
• Housing Program Eligibility: Participants will have a general understanding of the eligibility requirements for each housing program.
• Fair Market Value: Participants will learn where and how to locate HUD’s Fair Market Values in addition to understanding how these values are used within housing programs.
• Housing Ratios: Participants will demonstrate their understanding of HUD’s Housing Ratios through practice scenarios determining affordability.
• Tenant Rights: Participants will learn where to find legal information and/or resources, basic logistics of a lease, landlord and tenant responsibilities, and fair housing laws including how to file a housing compliant. 
• Landlord Rights: Participants will learn where to locate legal aid resources tenant and landlord rights resources, including lease basics and whose responsibility is it to make necessary property repairs. 
• Landlord Engagement: Participants will gain a general understanding of the importance of creating and leveraging relationships with landlords to increase housing stability for patient populations served. 
• Resources: Participants learn the strategies to help clients remain successfully housed, including the importance of community-based partnerships and housing advocacy.

Schedule:

This Training will be hosted by

PI's Housing Stability Program Manager

Danielle Drew

Danielle balances training and program evaluation skills to amplify program delivery for the Indiana Emergency Rental Assistance (IERA) Housing Stability Network at Prosperity Indiana. She engages with IERA providers to increase housing counseling services and the number of certified housing counselors across Indiana.

Danielle spent several years serving as the Family Development Coordinator and Housing Stability Coordinator at Interlocal Community Action Program (ICAP) in New Castle, Indiana. In that role she customized and implemented Financial Education, including overseeing the Individual Development Account (IDA) asset building program. Danielle spent several years providing direct client services to families in many different capacities, which gives her a deep understanding of the skills, resources, and tools needed to best serve families in need.

Danielle Drew

Housing Stability Program Manager

ddrew@prosperityindiana.org

317.222.1221 x408