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Creating Homes Initiative Creating Homes Initiative The Creating Homes Initiative (CHI) seeks to assertively and strategically partner with local communities to educate, inform, and expand quality, safe, affordable, and permanent housing options for people with mental illness and co-occurring disorders.
The program was created in August of 2000 by Marie Williams, LCSW, current Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, in response to the lack of safe, decent, quality, permanent, and affordable housing options for persons with mental illness in Tennessee. Today, along with the Director of Regional Housing Facilitators, there are seven Regional Housing Facilitators and seven CHI 2.
0 Regional Substance Use Housing Facilitators who work in collaboration with a vast array of community partners, including the Continua of Care, to create and develop safe, affordable, quality, permanent housing options for persons diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder along a continuum from 24/7 supervised living facilities to home ownership.
Through state FY25, the Creating Homes Initiative has leveraged more than $1. 4 billion to create more than 37,000 new housing opportunities across Tennessee. The state provides framework, incentives, and Regional Housing Facilitators who are full-time affordable housing development experts/grant writers.
Broad-based local/regional task forces identify needs and prioritize projects (Now, Continua of Care). Regional Housing Facilitators work with any appropriate agency. Housing is owned and operated by local agencies, usually mental health service providers or affordable housing agencies.
Emphasis is placed on developing permanent housing opportunities such as independent rental and home ownership with supports as needed in scattered locations. To learn more, click this link for our printable onepager or click on the tabs below for more information and specific functions of the Creating Homes Initiative. For a more in-depth history, visit Recovery Within Reach .
Regional Housing Facilitators Regional Housing Facilitators work "hands-on" in collaboration with grassroots community task forces in each of the seven statewide Mental Health Planning and Policy Council regions to create and develop safe, affordable, quality, permanent housing options for persons diagnosed with a mental illness or co-occurring disorder.
Find your Regional Housing Facilitator by searching your county's name in the box below. Pickett Franklin Dyer Bledsoe Haywood Carter Fayette Sequatchie Cocke Hardin Lincoln Maury Lawrence Wilson Hawkins Macon 865-399-3144 Montgomery Smith Cumberland Chester DeKalb Meigs Wayne Sullivan Robertson allightkarlsson@frontierhealth. org ShaneBerryhill@aimcenterinc.
org Shanley Deignan Hancock Coffee Washington Union Morgan Williamson Blount Rhea Humphreys Rosie Cross Van Buren Cheatham Dickson Grainger Johnson Sabrina. Edgington@parkcenternashville. org Jefferson Lawrence 629-302-8083 Benton McNairy Carroll Sevier 615-517-2896 Dena Zipp Henderson Greene Scott Sabrina Edgington Claiborne Jackson Lake Fentress crossbr@ridgeview.
com Knox Moore Perry Rutherford Hamblen 731-571-4072 Trousdale Shane Berryhill Clay Lauderdale Shanley. Deignan@parkcenternashville. org Campbell Weakley Marshall Hardeman Tipton 901-277-6101 Dena.
Zipp@careyinc. org Obion Shelby Giles Madison Cannon Bradley McMinn Stewart Decatur Amy Light-Karlsson Warren Loudon Sumner Hamilton 423-416-1843 Grundy Henry Putnam Davidson Hickman lawrence. e.
wilson@gmail. com Unicoi Wilson Monroe Roane Gibson Anderson Overton White Lewis Polk Bedford Crockett 423-718-9325 Marion Houston Regional Substance Use Housing Facilitators CHI 2. 0 Regional Substance Use Housing Facilitators - Operating within the Creating Homes Initiative 2.
0 (CHI 2. 0), these professionals are located within the 7 mental health planning regions to work in collaboration with the HUD Continuums of Care as well as other community stakeholders to create and develop safe, affordable, quality, permanent housing options for persons diagnosed with opioid use or other substance use disorder. Find your CHI 2.
0 Regional Substance Use Housing Facilitator by searching your county's name in the box below. Pickett Franklin Erin Gillylen Dyer 423-341-2713 Trish Cunningham Bledsoe Sascha. henderson@mcnabb.
org Haywood Carter Fayette Sequatchie Cocke Hardin Lincoln Maury egillylen@caapincorporated. com Hawkins Macon Montgomery Smith Cumberland Chester DeKalb Meigs Wayne Sullivan Robertson Greg Keeling Hancock Coffee Washington Union Morgan Williamson Blount Rhea Patricia. Cunningham@mcnabb.
org Humphreys Cat Floyd-Jennings Van Buren Cheatham Dickson Grainger Johnson Jefferson Lawrence Benton McNairy Carroll 901-598-3942 Sevier Henderson Greene Scott Claiborne Jackson Lake Fentress Knox Moore Perry Rutherford Hamblen 615-878-1970 Trousdale Jack Blum Clay Lauderdale Campbell Weakley Marshall Hardeman Tipton greg. keeling@parkcenternashville.
org Obion 865-255-7001 Shelby Sascha Henderson Giles Madison Cannon Jason Postlethwait Bradley Jack. Blum@parkcenternashville. org McMinn Stewart Decatur Warren Loudon Sumner Hamilton Grundy Henry Putnam Davidson CEFloydJennings@frontierhealth.
org 423-876-9291 Hickman Unicoi 615-289-7546 Wilson Monroe Roane jason@aspellrecovery. com Gibson Anderson Overton White 731-499-3952 Lewis Polk Bedford Crockett Marion Houston Peer Housing Specialists work with community housing stakeholders to build connections, develop resources, and support community education. They research and build a database of housing resources, housing options, and community housing programs.
As Certified Recovery Peer Specialists (CPRS) , they also work to increase public understanding and support for individuals with mental illness or co-occurring disorders. Learn more about the Peer Housing Specialists at this link on the Recovery Within Reach website . Find your Peer Housing Specialist by searching your county's name in the box below.
Pickett Franklin Dyer Bledsoe Haywood Carter Fayette Veronica Lewis Sequatchie 423-360-1487 Cocke Hardin Lincoln Maury Hawkins Macon Montgomery Smith Cumberland Chester DeKalb Meigs Wayne Sullivan veronicalewis@aimcenterinc. org Robertson Hancock rahma. mohamed@parkcenternashville.
org Coffee Washington Union Morgan Williamson Blount Rhea 615-504-7662 Humphreys Van Buren Cheatham Dickson Grainger Johnson Jefferson Lawrence Benton McNairy Carroll <a href="mailto:Jecarta. Suggs@bhitn. org" aria-label="Jecarta.
Suggs@bhitn. org" title="Jecarta. Suggs@bhitn.
org" target="_blank">Jecarta. Suggs@bhitn. org</a> Sevier Henderson Greene Scott Claiborne Katheryn Grevelle Jackson Lake Fentress Jamie Willis Knox jamie.
willis@careyinc. org Moore Perry Rutherford Hamblen Trousdale Clay Lauderdale Campbell Weakley Marshall Hardeman Tipton Jecarta Suggs Obion Shelby Giles Madison Cannon Bradley Rahma Mohamed McMinn Stewart Decatur Warren Loudon 901-609-9069 Sumner Hamilton <a href="mailto:kpgrevelle@frontierhealth. org" target="_blank">kpgrevelle@frontierhealth.
org</a> 731-642-0521 ext. 226 Grundy Henry Putnam Davidson 423-624-6605 Hickman Unicoi Wilson Monroe Roane Gibson Anderson Overton White Lewis Polk Bedford Crockett Marion Houston Connect with CHI Resources in Your Area Click this link or the image for a printable PDF map. Or find the contact who serves your county by clicking on the elements above.
The Fair Housing Act or Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of dwellings and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status and disability.
The following legal agencies address fair housing concerns: The Tennessee Fair Housing Council - Based in Nashville and concentrates on Davidson, Cheatham, Dickson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson counties. https://tennfairhousing. org/ Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands is a private, non-profit organization that provides free legal services to people with low income.
There are eight offices that serve 48 Tennessee counties. Offices are in Clarksville, Columbia, Cookeville, Gallatin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Oak Ridge and Tullahoma. Memphis Area Legal Services, Inc. provides free legal assistance in civil (non criminal) matters to persons in Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby and Tipton counties in Tennessee.
Most of our services are only available to low income or elderly persons. The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to connecting vulnerable Tennesseans with civil legal help.
Free Legal Helpline: 1-844-HELP4TN Legal Aid of East Tennessee provides civil legal services ranging from information and advice, to complex litigation and appellate advocacy, to low income persons in the twenty six (26) East Tennessee counties, with offices in Chattanooga, Cleveland, Knoxville, Johnson City, Maryville, and Morristown.
West Tennessee Legal Services - Serves Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henry, Henderson, Lake, McNairy, Madison, Obion, and Weakley counties. http://www. wtls.
org/index. php
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