Back@Home-BoS Program Activities

Back@Home-Balance of State is a program designed to reduce unsheltered and rural homelessness and improve services, health outcomes, and housing stability for unsheltered people and families through two primary activities: housing stabilization services and financial assistance.

Graphic of the Back at Home - BoS Recipe for Success visual. The graphic includes text boxes titled "Housing Stabilization Services" plus "Unit Access and Move-In Financial Assistance" plus "Rent and Utility Financial Assistance" and "Operations and Backbone Support".

Housing Stabilization Services

  • Housing Stabilization Case Management: Service providers create a partnership with the household to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the needs of the household to get and keep housing.
  • Outreach: Service providers assist by locating, engaging, and supporting households with life-saving resources as they experience homelessness and are connected to housing resources.
  • System Navigation: Service providers assist households with accessing resources from the homeless system and partners systems to get and keep housing.
  • Housing Navigation: Service providers assist households to gain access to address issues with maintaining a physical unit. 

Financial Assistance

  • Rent and Utility Financial Assistance
  • Unit Access and Move-In Financial Assistance
    • Examples include but are not limited to application, background check, and security deposit fees. They may also include incentives for landlords to provide housing, move-in costs like furniture, housing supplies, temporary stays and moving costs.