Homelessness Prevention

Case management is utilized to assist low-income households that are in a crisis situation and unable to meet basic needs as a result of:

• A separation of the family that resulted from domestic violence.
• Loss of income
• Unforeseen circumstances that increased expenditures making it difficult to meet the following months budgeted expenditures.
• A condition, which endangers the health or safety of the household.

(The Arizona Department of Economic Security - Community Partnerships and Innovative Practices, defines these five areas.)

Each individual household will be assisted via assessment of the needs of the household applying for/or receiving services and determining incremental steps in a case management plan to move a family toward economic self-sufficiency. To do this, a family may require assistance with an immediate crisis that cannot be met by a family's own income or resources. In this situation, case management becomes the process by which emergency services are delivered. For those households eligible, appropriate services and/or benefits are identified, planned, obtained, provided, recorded, monitored, terminated and follow-up provided where and when appropriate.