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On March 24th, Native American Connections will open its newest behavioral health and supportive housing campus. The Patina Mountain Preserve Wellness Center and Dunlap Pointe Housing Community, located at 1427 E. Dunlap Ave. in Phoenix’s Sunnyslope neighborhood, embrace NAC’s focus on health, housing and community.
Targeted to veterans experiencing homelessness, Dunlap Pointe features 54 permanent supportive housing units. Working in partnership with the Veteran’s Administration, residents will have access to onsite case managers for connections to trauma informed care and counseling, employment supports, mainstream benefits, healthcare, transportation, food resources, and social and community activities.
Dunlap Pointe is located immediately adjacent to the new Patina Mountain Preserve Wellness Center, a 48-bed residential treatment program for substance use disorders. Drawing on the success of NAC’s Patina Wellness Center (established in 2017), Patina Mountain Preserve will offer Native American traditional healing practices and cultural activities including sweat lodges, smudging/purification, talking circles, songs and drumming, Red Road teachings, Native crafts, storytelling and cultural presentations. On-site classes will include life skills, workforce development activities, and access to computers and a library with educational materials. Wellness checks and health education classes will be available along with alternative healing practices such as yoga, massage, acupuncture, and art therapy.
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.