Housing with Supports for Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Housing with Supports for Adults with Serious Mental Illness aims to prevent or end homelessness for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorder, or co-occurring substance use disorder who are homeless or at risk of homelessness by helping them obtain and retain housing. The program also works to achieve the goals of the housing mission statement of the Minnesota Comprehensive Adult Mental Health Act (Minn. Stat.§ 245.461, subdivision 4), by assuring the following outcomes:
- Housing and activities utilize evidence-based practices
- People transition from homelessness to housing
- People retain their housing
- People are satisfied with their housing.
Grantees may provide a range of supportive services and activities that ensure people obtain and retain permanent supportive housing, including:
- General case management
- Site-based housing services
- Housing transition services
- Housing sustaining services
- Outreach services
- Community support services
- Direct assistance funding.
Eligible grantees are Minnesota tribes, counties, non-profit and for-profit behavioral health service providers, or other social service agencies with expertise serving the proposed target populations, including expertise serving underserved or disparately impacted populations.
The program was initially funded in 2008 as a state grant program that supports services for people to obtain permanent, lease-based housing ranging from single site to scattered site models. Grantee projects are expected to meet the fidelity standards of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as outlined in the Evaluating Your Program module in its Permanent Supportive Housing Evidence-Based Practice toolkit. These standards assure housing and services utilize evidence-base practice in alignment with the outcomes identified in Minnesota Statutes 245.992 for Housing with Supports for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.
Funding information
- Total yearly amount of $4.55 million
- Total number of grantees 17
- Median grant award amount: $282,800 per year
Recent highlights
- 741 people served in Fiscal Year 2024 and 791 in Fiscal Year 2025
- 27 people (4%) transitioned to housing in Fiscal Year 2024 and 21 (3%) transitioned in Fiscal Year 2025
- 375 people (51%) were able to retain housing in Fiscal Year 2024 and 277 (35%) retaining housing in Fiscal Year 2025.
If you are a provider interested in applying for this funding source, please sign up to receive information about request for proposals through the Minnesota Department of Human Services at mn.gov/dhs/partners-and-providers/grants-rfps/open-rfps/.