Case Study: Perfect Homes Transitional Housing

Interior design and architecture are essential, and often overlooked, aspects of everyday life. In modern society people rely on function, durability, and visual appeal when selecting designs for their homes, businesses, and places of leisure. The way that a space is designed influences such things as mood, which, in the case of a business, can impact the productivity of employees and either draw or repel customers. In residential design, the design becomes very personal and, to be considered a successful design, must properly reflect the home owner while at the same time offering some practicality that makes the space livable. An effective design, for any space, must solve some problem, be it function, flexibility, or some other criteria. Simply solving a problem would not please the customer, however, unless it offered some visual appeal. Creating function with style is the real job of any interior designer, and is essential in a content society.

New Hope Housing addresses several areas of the McKinsey framework for capacity. Specially, strategy, staff and leadership, funding, and advocacy are addressed within their plan. Although it is interesting, the infrastructure was not thoroughly discussed within their plan, that would need evaluated to address the additional programs and initiatives they seek to accomplish.

Two main reasons contribute to why I would love to become a Housing Ambassador. To help get many prospective and current students excited and involved in campus housing is the first reason. So many people shoot down on campus housing because of the price; however, people do not realize housing is more than just a room you pay for. You live here, study here, and have fun here. There are many events, free stuff, and free food that residence halls and RSA provide for students. I want to be able to show students that off-campus students do not have the same experiences as on-campus students. The second reason I would like to become a Housing Ambassador is for the experience. Ultimately, I would like to become a dean or chancellor of a college in my golden years. Being an Housing Ambassador would provide me with life-long experiences that I could take into my future careers as a business leader, politician, and dean/ chancellor.

I am choosing Vignette #3 to write about on this assignment. It is fitting because I am doing my filed work this semester at a homeless transition center. While the vignette presents a case that could be easy to solve, it does not present to the reader all the issues the committee must identify when they come together for a housing solution. The first questions to be asked is who the homeless and what kind of barriers they are having for permanent housing. Is the homeless living on fixed incomes, do they have jobs with low wages, a criminal background, single families, multi generation living together? How many women, men, children, seniors, veterans and children are homeless? The next is what resources are in the community that can be tapped into for help with placing the homeless into permanent housing.

Pathways to Housing PA serves the homeless population within the Philadelphia city boundary. The organization uses what is called the “scatter site” model, placing participants in homes in several communities throughout the city. This model encourages a sense of community and agency for the participant (Cite website).

MSTT met with Jake at the Valley Youth House to see how he was doing. Jake stated he is doing pretty good there because he has a lot more freedom there then he does at home. When asked what he means by that Jake explained his mother trys to control everything he does and at the Valley Youth house he as some freedom. MSTT and Jake discussed what his plans are once he returns home. Jake stated he does know at this time if he wants to go home. Jake explained Cody from CYS came to speak with him and explained to him he could be placed in a indenpedent living situation. Jake stated this is something he may be considering it because he's not sure if he wants to go home. MSTT will continue to meet with Jake and assess how he doing and develop a plan

The Design & Development discipline will assist its clients with major renovations to existing health care buildings or the design and construction of new facilities. In this capacity it will serve as the Owner’s representative in either the management of design and/or construction of the project and lead the team to ensure the owner’s needs are met via the construction of the new facilitiy. In this role it will leverage leading practices in the areas of Building Information Modeling and Sustainable Design to create a compelling lasting space that instill a level of comfort in its customers’ patients and family members. Following are some of the potential service lines within the discipline.

The person served was admitted to the Bridgeway Supportive Housing Team on 2/28/15 with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and opiate dependence. She is not currently prescribed any medications, as per her verbal report. The person served did not have insurance since moving back to this area from North Carolina. She has been working on getting this reinstated. Supportive Housing staff have linked her to social services in an effort to get insurance. This was done on 3/26/15 with follow up calls on 4/22 and 5/5/15. Due to this linkage, she was able to get linked to mental health and psychiatric services. However, she has meanwhile reported to staff on 6/19/15 that she has plans to see a psychiatrist (Dr. Moss) in Flemington, and that she is saving

The Compass Housing Alliance has long history of assisting people in need, dating back to the 1920s. The Compass Housing Alliance was originally the Lutheran Sailors and Loggers Mission in Pioneer Square, which was founded by Rev. Otto and Mrs. Alva Karlstrom. Their mission was to follow the Good Samaritan, by helping those in need. The Lutheran Mission included services such as a chapel, reading room, Americanization school, a kitchen, bedding (mattresses on the floor), and a postal desk. In 1926, the Lutheran Mission was renamed Lutheran Compass Mission. Because of the Depression, the homeless population grew rapidly in the 1930s. As a result, the Karlstroms went to a fund-raising tour, which covered 10,000 miles and fifteen states in the

Perfect Homes will be a non-profit organization established and chartered under 501 (C) (3). The Board of Directors will give a final approval for Nino Dabrundashvili to fill in as the President. The non-profit organization aims to serve female participants in meeting their need for transitional housing and fundamental life skills training. The objectives of the organization are designed to provide temporary housing to homeless women in addition to equipping them with life skills training ensuring that the participants become independent, entrepreneurial, and empowered women.

Within the actual transitional housing community I feel as if my clients feel a sense of belonging. I feel this way because I have witnessed many of the clients relating to one another about the circumstances they are experiencing. Many of them go to one another for support, because they feel as if they are not being judged by others in their same position. Within the transitional housing program all the clients are experiencing homelessness or chronic homelessness for one reason or another. I find that many of the individuals within this community support each other and give advice when needed. In regard to the complete neighborhood that the agency is located within, I do not feel as if the clients feel a sense of belonging. Perhaps clients

In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. In his attempts to assemble the information, approvals, and resources necessary to go ahead, he runs into many problems associated with the development process. While Sexton is able to carry out most of the conceptual, investigative and planning stages of this development, he runs into many problems because of his inexperience and his initial plan changes over time. He runs into issues obtain financing, has to spend money to obtain a certificate of occupancy, underestimates the

Housing first is a method to end homelessness that focuses on providing people feeling homelessness with housing as fast as possible. Likewise, since the year of 2000, the program Housing First had demonstrated effectiveness for not only the homelessness reduction but also the alleviating of the additional problems that may often plague the individuals that are homeless. Roche (2004), a researcher at the university of Miami, Jackson memorial hospital said that ninety-eight percent remained in the housing after the 12 months. Additionally, he said that recently there were significant increases reported in an access to the physician care utilization that was enhanced by a life quality and the decreased involvement with a justice system that was

Home is the place one spends more time in their life and share special moments with family. Where one expects to live permanently carefree and feel protected under the roof of their house. One day I want to have a home that makes me feel well and where I can be safe and happy. The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the decisions I made about designing my future dream house.

Training and development activities include: Inductions, Health & Safety training/law, organisation and delivery of training courses, structuring appraisals & Personal Development framework, holding, recording and updating training information and managing training budgets.