The Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition received a $400,000 Social Innovation Fund subgrant to provide 160 homeless AIDS patients with supportive housing and integrated primary and behavioral health care. The funding comes from the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), which had received a Social Innovation Fund grant from the federal government to demonstrate that integrated models of supportive housing connected to health care can improve health status while reducing public costs among individuals who are the highest users of crisis health services.
The grant will allow the Coalition to provide housing and health care to these individuals, increase their housing stability, improve their health status, and reduce their hospitalizations.
I applaud the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition for its commitment to bettering the lives of those inflicted by HIV/AIDS and for winning this award.