Stability starts with support.
At CHN, we provide more than just a place to live. We accept residents as they are, wherever they are in the current moment. To reinforce their self-determination, we offer voluntary supports so they can make their own choices for their own health.
For people who want specialized help, we create individualized housing support plans designed for flexibility and responsiveness. We collaborate with our network of partners, which includes human services, healthcare, counseling, and other experts throughout Franklin County to offer residents every service they may need to achieve stability. And at every stage, we work with residents to establish their goals, respect their choices, offer support, and celebrate success.
As a PSH provider, our housing is not temporary or transitional. Some CHN residents just need help getting back on their feet before moving up and out of our housing, while others need life-long support to maintain stability.
With access to supportive services, many residents succeed at recovering from mental health crises and addiction, learning job skills, raising their income level, and attending school. They sustain their physical and emotional health, maintain healthy relationships with their families and others, secure and maintain income and employment, and enjoy productive, purposeful lives.
Among the services residents can access through CHN housing:
- Service coordination with links to case management
- Crisis prevention
- Healthcare
- Drug and alcohol addiction counseling
- Mental health counseling
- Mobile food pantry
- Transportation assistance
- Employment training
- Parenting education
- Assistance with benefits
- Volunteer opportunities
- Financial counseling
- Life skills workshops
- Social activities
Our housing types.
CHN offers housing for individuals and families.
Our continuum of housing offers varying levels of supports—with 24/7 on-site supports in some properties to as-needed supports in others. This system allows us to provide a range of options for our residents—all designed to answer their needs while enhancing their self-sufficiency and respecting their dignity.
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24/7 Supportive Service
CHN’s Supportive 24/7 Housing (24/7) is housing with on-site support services that are available 24-hours per day, 7 days per week. Resident service plans include an array of services, including crisis prevention, that are available on-site and through formal partnerships with ADAMH (Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County) service partners.
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Service Enriched
CHN’s Service-Enriched Housing (SEH) is housing that provides access to moderate on-site support through formal partnerships with ADAMH service providers who are often on-site between 20 to 40 hours per week. CHN’s SEH facilities provide sufficient space for property management, community living, and group activities. The ADAMH service partners use on-site community rooms and office space to coordinate support services. CHN also encourage SEH residents to remain connected or become connected to their individual case managers.
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Independent Housing
CHN’s Independent Housing has no on-site services, but instead residents receive services through CHN Supportive Housing Specialists and ADAMH providers. These units are widely scattered and in low-density buildings in over sixty different locations. The purpose of Independent Housing is to provide residents with the ability to live self-sufficiently in a safe, affordable home linked to off-site services as needed.
Building brighter futures.
Community Housing Network has developed and manages more than 1,500 apartments throughout Franklin County, and currently serves more than 2,100 people in independent housing across Columbus and the surrounding communities.
All of our developments are designed to provide comfort, consistency, and community to those who live there. To ensure residents feel truly at home, units include kitchens with appliances, full bathrooms, and bedrooms. Many buildings offer computer centers, exercise equipment, meeting spaces, TV rooms, patios with grills, walking trails, and other spaces to encourage connections.
Equal Housing Opportunity Statement
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the Nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
