Friday, 2:00 - 3:30 pm

COST BENEFITS TO PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR HOMELESS PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS AND OTHER CHRONIC ILLNESSES Location: Hyatt Regency, Remington Learn how to duplicate housing models and cross-systems collaborations that have effectively housed and kept housed persons living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses. Discussion will include key elements of the housing first and low-demand (harm reduction) models. Introductory Level. Presenters: Arturo Valdivia Bendixen, MSW, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Brian Kelly, MSW, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Materials: Time to Heal Booklet (pdf) Housing and AIDS Prevention and Health Care (ppt) Development and Assessment of the CHHP Program Model (doc) Connecting Fractured Lives to a Fragmented Sysgem (pdf) The Chicago Housing and Health Project: A Housing Model for Homeless People Living with HIV/AIDS(doc) Chicago Housing for Health Partnership (ppt) Housing is HIV Prevention and Health Care (ppt) Policy Paper from the Second National Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit (pdf)