{"id":458927,"date":"2026-09-10T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458927\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:20:23","slug":"working-together-to-keep-bernadette-housed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458927\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Together to Keep Bernadette Housed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernadette, 82, lives with a disability and mobility and ambulatory issues that require her to live at a board and care facility. Eventually, the inheritance she used to pay her rent ran out. Out of options and unable to afford the cost of her care, she fell behind on rent and received an eviction notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bernadette was referred to HSH through the E<a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/emergency-centralized-response-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mergency Centralized Response Center<\/a> (ECRC). From there, the team hit the ground running, working together\u00a0to\u00a0find safe, stable housing\u00a0for Bernadette\u00a0and\u00a0secure\u00a0a permanent\u00a0source of income\u00a0for her\u00a0to ensure she did not fall into homelessness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0HSH\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/supportive-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enriched Residential Care<\/a> (ERC)\u00a0team, which provides housing placements for individuals who have complex physical and behavioral health conditions,\u00a0evaluated Bernadette\u2019s medical\u00a0needs\u00a0and\u00a0identified\u00a0a stable, fully equipped alternative facility.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the HSH <a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/supportive-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Countywide Benefits Entitlement Services Team<\/a> (CBEST), a team comprised of benefits advocates, clinicians, and legal partners that helps people apply for disability income programs, advocated on her behalf to the Social Security Administration to secure the maximum supplemental disability benefits that Bernadette was entitled to but wasn\u2019t receiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernadette, 82, lives with a disability and mobility and ambulatory issues that require her to live at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[170814,48,52,51,47,50,49,181017],"class_list":["post-458927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-home-news","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}