TIPs at Grace West:
A Summary
Community Opportunity Fund (COF) was awarded a contract through the Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge: Healthy Affordable Housing in May 2019, and then an extension contract in August 2021 to deliver the Telehealth Intervention Programs (TIPs) at Grace West Manor, a 429-unit Section 8 senior and family property, in Newark NJ, owned and managed by Jonathan Rose Companies. TIPs is a multi-award-winning, preventative health screening program with wrap around social service programs targeting low-income, high health risk, underserved communities with the aim of addressing gaps in health equity and access, improving health outcomes and increasing social connectedness. This report sets out the progress made during the course of the three-year Fannie Mae contract, with key results and achievements.
The Family
Self-Sufficiency Program
COF seeks to implement The Family Self-Sufficiency Program at a v ariety of affordable housing communities in regional clusters across the US. The Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS) is a highly scalable but underutilized employment and savings program for low-income families living in federally subsidized housing. FSS was created in Congress in 1990 to support families to increase their earned income, build savings and reduce use of welfare assistance and rental subsidies.
Communities of Opportunity
Study Design
In 2019, Community Opportunity Fund received a grant to conduct a field scan with partners from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Success Measures, Enterprise, and Jonathan Rose Companies. The field scan in the report below examined housing-based interventions to improve residents’ health. After understanding the general landscape of housing-based interventions, COF secured further funding from JPB to undertake a three-year pilot program to understand and analyze the effects of the Communities of Opportunity (CoO) model. The CoO model seeks to leverage housing as a pathway to comprehensive resident health and wellbeing, using a resident-centered participatory framework including programs and services to support residents’ needs and desires.
Telehealth Intervention Programs (TIPs)
Research Report 2021
Community Opportunity Fund was awarded a contract through the Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge: Healthy Affordable Housing in May 2019 to deliver the Telehealth Intervention Programs (TIPs) at Grace West Manor in Newark, NJ. Grace West is a 429-unit Section 8 senior and family property. TIPs is a multi-award-winning, affinity and congregate setting, multi-disciplinary, intergenerational, high-tech/high-touch, remote patient monitoring program enhanced with wraparound social services programs targeting low-income, high health risk, underserved communities, such as Grace West. The below report sets out the progress made during the course of a two-year Fannie Mae Contract (which has since been extended for one year), with key results and achievements.