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Enterprise has helped document best practices, case studies and hands-on manuals and reports to provide in-depth expertise in affordable senior housing.

	Resident Assessment Tool This tool represents a good first step for housing providers interested in integrating services into their housing communities. The free tool is included in a 4-part package that Enterprise partners can download: A Guide to Conducting Resident Assessments offers direction on using the self-assessment tool, which residents complete themselves or with help from housing property staff or an outside community partner. The guide also provides strategies that properties can use to respond to the needs identified through the survey process. The Resident Assessment Tool Part 1 collects information about residents’ health and functional status, as well as their social support network. The Resident Assessment Tool Part II captures information about activities that interest residents, including services and programs in which they would willingly participate. An Excel Spreadsheet helps properties tabulate the assessment results and view, in one place, an overall picture of their resident populations.
	Summit on Aging in Place in Public Housing March 10-11, 2011 Held by Enterprise and LeadingAge. Over the two-day period, teams from each of the seven participating locations learned about the strategies each is employing and/or developing to help support residents to age safely in their homes.
	Innovation in Senior Housing: Four Case Studies 990 Polk (San Francisco, Calif.): Mixes low-income senior housing with permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless seniors to access capital and operating subsidy sources. Emeritus House (Cleveland, Ohio): Adds green elements to secure additional capital for preservation in adaptive reuse, overcoming conflicts between historic preservation requirements and green building goals. Ewing Independent Living (Ewing, N.J.): Incorporates housing for the developmentally disabled in a senior assisted-living setting to access capital sources and service funding, maximizing potential for aging in place. Azotea Senior Apartments (Alamogordo, N.M.): Builds lean and green, minimizing construction and operating costs in a low-subsidy environment.
	Creating Opportunities for Families Through Resident Services: A Practitioner's Manual - Volume 1 Implementing a Basic Resident Services Program The manual describes how to determine what services would most benefit your residents, and then how to fund, staff, design, implement, partner and measure the effectiveness of those services.
	Creating Opportunities for Families Through Resident Services: A Practitioner's Manual - Volume 2 Enhanced and Comprehensive Resident Services Each section includes an overview along with multiple model documents to help you get started immediately with hands-on, helpful tools you can adapt quickly to fit your needs.
	National Summit on Affordable Senior Housing and Services in Washington, D.C. on May 25, 2010 Held by the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), in partnership with Enterprise. The summit convened experts from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other government agencies, organizations, senior and health care providers and foundations.

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