Welcome to the Interagency Council on Homelessness
and Affordable Housing

Using Medicaid in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) to supplement services for residents can be challenging. This toolkit is designed to assist you in understanding the limitations of Medicaid funding and the opportunities to assist you in meeting PSH resident’s needs and ensure their housing is maintained.  The PSH Toolkit is one part of the overall effort of the Interagency Council on Homelessness and Affordable Housing to further the development of PSH and ensure that appropriate and needed supportive services are available to those in need. 

Medicaid is administered by a "single State agency". In Ohio that agency is the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). ODJFS is responsible for setting policy, paying bills, contracting with providers and managing the program. ODJFS also manages home and community based services directly and through partnerships and interagency agreements with other state agencies that manage specific components of Medicaid which run a broad spectrum of services across multiple disabilities. In Ohio those agencies include the Department of Aging, Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, Department of Developmental Disabilities and the Department of Mental Health.