a food pantry<\/a> that is stocked by the Central Texas Food Bank and supplemented by grant-funded fresh H-E-B products like milk, eggs and meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n“The key to healing is connection,” said Kali Holyfield, deputy director of specialty programs for Integral Care.<\/p>\n
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Support staff include a peer support specialist, a 24-hour front desk receptionist and a 24-hour security guard, as well as specialists who can help residents sign up for benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP food benefits and Central Health’s Medical Access Program, as well as navigate other living challenges. Once a week, a care team from Central Health also provides on-site medical care. The first floor also has computers for residents to use, a large community room and free\u00a0washers and dryers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Residents are not required to use the resources. Buchanan said sometimes residents “will say no to resources 37 times and the 38th time they say OK.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Marlene Buchanan, Integral Care’s director of practice management, shows the bedroom and living room area in one of the apartments in Seabrook II. Each apartment comes with all the furniture and furnishings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Integral Care uses housing vouchers for those who qualify to pay residents’ rent. For residents who have no income, rent is free. If they have some income, such as Social Security benefits, residents will pay no more than 30% of their income for rent.<\/p>\n
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At Integral Care’s three other supportive housing sites, most residents stay two to five years, but some will stay longer based on their health and needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Like at a typical apartment, residents can bring pets, but Integral Care makes sure there is a plan in place to take care of the pet if a resident is hospitalized or dies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Integral Care created an outdoor living space between the apartment building and the garage at the new Seabrook II supportive housing apartments.<\/p>\n
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Integral Care’s newest supportive housing apartments, Seabrook II, have open air vestibules with a screened-in space on each floor. Residents at Integral Care’s other sites wanted more connection to the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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