Washington Revised Code Title 74. Public Assistance § 74.09.885. Apple health and homes program--Definitions

(1) “Community support services” means active search and promotion of access to, and choice of, appropriate, safe, and affordable housing and ongoing supports to assure ongoing successful tenancy. The term includes, but is not limited to, services to medical assistance clients who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless through outreach, engagement, and coordination of services with shelter and housing. The term includes benefits offered through the foundational community supports program established pursuant to the authority's federal waiver, entitled “medicaid transformation project,” as amended and reauthorized.

(2) “Community support services provider” means a local entity that contracts with a coordinating entity to provide community support services. A community support services provider may also separately perform the functions of a housing provider.

(3) “Coordinating entity” means one or more organizations, including medicaid managed care organizations, under contract with the authority to coordinate community support services as required under RCW 74.09.886 and 74.09.888. There may only be one coordinating entity per regional service area.

(4) “Department” means the department of commerce.

(5) “Homeless person” has the same meaning as in RCW 43.185C.010.

(6) “Housing provider” means a public or private organization that supplies permanent supportive housing units consistent with RCW 36.70A.030 to meet the housing needs of homeless persons. A housing provider may supply permanent supportive housing in a site-based or scattered site arrangement using a variety of public, private, philanthropic, or tenant-based sources of funds to cover operating costs or rent. A housing provider may also perform the functions of a community support services provider.

(7) “Office” means the office of apple health and homes created in RCW 43.330.181.

(8) “Program” means the apple health and homes program established in RCW 74.09.886.

(9) “Permanent supportive housing” has the same meaning as in RCW 36.70A.030.