Welcome to HOME Project

THE PROJECT:

This is a federally funded project that is a collaboration between the Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Our goal is to connect participants with community partners so that they can obtain and maintain housing.
Throughout the project, we will provide surveys to participants to measure the impact that these partnerships on the youth.
Ultimately, we expect to deliver an intervention package that can be adopted in a multitude of settings.

This project was developed because there are 2.5 million youth who have difficulty in finding sustainable housing.
Not having sustainable housing is a source of chronic stress that can negatively impact mental health and other facets of people’s lives.
We hope that information and findings from our work can help inform other intervention efforts to be successfully implemented in other areas.

We make extensive efforts to ensure that tenants and landlords are good matches for one another, and ensure strong mutually beneficial relationships.
We collaborate with the youth to connect them with additional supportive services to help them obtain their goals, such as finding employment.

TWO PHASE STUDY:
- Phase I (Year 1): Youth (N = 21) experiencing difficulty in finding housing will receive housing and supportive services for six months.
  - Participants will be provided 6 months of rent and utility assistance and support services.
  - Surveys will be provided at months 3 and 6.

Phase II (Years 2-5): Youth (N =240) will be randomly assigned to 1) housing + supportive services or 2) supportive services alone.
- Participants will be provided 6 months of rent and utility assistance and supportive services or 6 months of supportive services alone.
- Surveys will be provided at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months.