Connections: Home, recovery, and community

Connections can help individuals experiencing homelessness by providing a variety of services, including:

• Housing services, including recovery housing
  Case management
• Evidence-based direct SUD, COD, and trauma treatment
• Assess to federal income supports
• Screenings and assessments
• Individualized and integrated substance use treatment and planning
• Linkages to primary and specialty care
• Peer and wraparound recovery supports such as employment and education services, benefits engagement and enrollment, hepatitis/sexually transmitted infection/HIV screening/education/counseling

Eligibility:

To be eligible for Connections, clients should:

• Be Medicaid-eligible
• Currently be experiencing homelessness
• Have a substance use disorder or co-occurring disorder including trauma, PTSD and depression
• Currently be located within Franklin, Jackson, Union or Williamson counties

For more information about Connections, call 1-877-HOPE123 (877-467-3123).

For the Connections referral form, click here.

Connections Advisory Council

Centerstone’s Connections: Connecting with People through Home, Recovery, and Community provides services to individuals, youth-adults, who are Medicaid-eligible and experiencing homelessness and substance use disorders or co-occurring disorders including trauma, PTSD and depression, in Franklin, Jackson, Union and Williamson counties.

The Connections Advisory Council, comprised of stakeholders and focus population, will support Connections’ goals, which include:

• Providing treatment, recovery support and linkages to housing
• Developing/expanding the infrastructure/capacity of an integrated community service system
• Improving client health status and outcomes
• Increasing permanent housing and related support services
• Developing/disseminating a replicable service model

For more information about the Connections Advisory Council, email Dalus Ben Avi at dalus.benavi@ centerstone.org.