Stable & Supportive Housing Assistance
Healing Begins With A Safe Place To Call Home
Healing begins with a safe place to call home
Stable & Supportive Housing Assistance
The Wendellman Foundation provides safe, affordable, and stigma-free housing that fosters dignity, community, and long-term wellness for individuals impacted by mental illness—including moderate depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and formerly incarcerated individuals seeking stability and support.
Our Stable & Supportive Housing Assistance Program offers a range of residence options—from individual units to multi-family homes—tailored to meet diverse needs, preferences, and levels of independence. By providing safe and supportive housing, we lay the foundation for recovery, helping residents build stability, engage with their community, and achieve long-term wellness.
Healing begins with a safe place to call home
Permanent Supportive Housing
Our housing environments are thoughtfully designed to promote dignity, stability, and a strong sense of belonging. Whether residing in transitional, supportive multi-family or individual residences, each participant benefits from a trauma-informed and person-centered approach that prioritizes their unique experiences and goals.
In addition to housing, residents have access to integrated wraparound services that support holistic well-being. This includes mental health counseling, case management, peer support, vocational training, life skills development, substance use recovery resources, and connections to healthcare and community programs. Our multidisciplinary care teams—comprising clinicians, peer specialists, and case managers—work collaboratively to ensure services are empathetic, culturally responsive, and continuously tailored to meet evolving needs.
Leveraging the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) model and Housing First Approach, the Wendellman Foundation created stable pathways to independent and supportive housing for individuals, incarcerated persons and military veterans living with mental illness and PTSD. We are committed to disrupting the cycle of housing instability, decrease rates of hospitalization and incarceration, and empower individuals to rebuild their independence.
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is a proven model that combines affordable housing with voluntary supportive services to help individuals and families with complex needs achieve housing stability. Whereas the Housing First Approach is a philosophy and intervention model grounded in the belief that housing is a human right, and access to stable housing should not be conditional on treatment compliance, sobriety, or other prerequisites. Once housed, individuals receive voluntary, personalized supports that foster stability and improve quality of life.
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Key components include:
- Affordable Housing for Individuals with Mental Illness: Tenants pay no more than 30% of their income toward rent and utilities.
- Voluntary Supportive Services: Services such as case management, mental health support, and employment assistance are offered but not required.
- Tenant Rights: Tenants have full rights of tenancy, including the ability to live in their homes as long as they remain eligible and meet basic obligations.
- Community Integration: Housing is integrated into the community, allowing tenants to interact with neighbors who do not have disabilities.
Housing First Approach
Housing First Approach
The Wendellman Foundation embraces a Housing First approach, providing immediate access to safe, stable, and supportive housing without preconditions. This model prioritizes security and dignity, allowing individuals living with serious mental illness, PTSD, or histories of incarceration to focus on recovery, wellness, and community engagement while receiving the care and support they need.
Housing First Components:
- Immediate placement into permanent housing without sobriety or treatment prerequisites
- Tenants hold individual leases, paying no more than ~30% of their income
- Housing is offered in either scattered-site apartments or fixed-site communities, integrated with other low-income residents to reduce stigma.
Healing begins with a safe place to call home
The Wendellman Difference
By offering a comprehensive, tiered housing continuum, the Wendellman Foundation sets itself apart with trauma-informed, person-centered supports rooted in the principles of Permanent Supportive Housing and Housing First. The Foundation operates across four progressive tiers—Partially Supervised Housing, Transitional Housing, Supportive Housing, and Independent Subsidized Rental Housing—each designed to align with an individual’s evolving needs and path toward independence.
In the initial tier, residents benefit from structured daily routines and on site staffing while exercising autonomy in life skills. As individuals stabilize, they may transition into scattered site supportive housing, living independently in community-integrated apartments, maintaining full lease rights, and accessing voluntary case management, peer support or home visits as needed. Ultimately, residents can move into fully independent rental units under housing subsidies such as the Housing Voucher Program or Section 811 PRA —with optional support services aimed at tenancy retention and wellness navigation. Throughout all tiers, the Wendellman Foundation emphasizes low-barrier access, tenant choice, lease rights, and optional, individualized supports, with design and programming informed by trauma-responsive principles that foster safety, trust, and emotional healing.
This continuum facilitates gradual progression toward independence, maximizing dignity, resilience, and community integration, all while delivering measurable outcomes such as high housing retention, reduced emergency service reliance, and strengthened well-being. This tiered model—with housing offered first and services layered by readiness—embodies an evidence-based, cost-effective standard in supportive housing aligned with national and State best practices of supportive housing and Housing First approaches.
Delivering Aid
Transitional Housing
Emergency safe, temporary housing with support to restore stability, build skills, and transition to permanent housing.
Permanent Housing
Permanent housing provides stability, supportive services, and a foundation for independence and long-term recovery
Independent Living
Supportive Independent Living offers guidance, life skills training, and support for confident autonomy
Rental Assistance
Providing affordable homes and rental assistance helping disabled persons maintain stability and self-sufficiency
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