The Navigation Team REST Program is an initiative launched on August 1, 2021, between Interfaith Works, Providence St. Peter Hospital, and Multicare Health Services at Capital Medical Center.

• Interfaith Works REST program offers a safe, healing environment for recovering, and on-site coordination of support services to set patients who are discharging from the hospitals with nowhere to go, set up for success.

• The Interfaith Works REST program provides a streamlined, cost effective solution to the need for comprehensive supportive recovery space for unhoused individuals.

We accept referrals directly from our healthcare provider partners.

• REST only accepts direct referrals from case managers at Providence St. Peter Hospital and Multicare Health Services at Capital Medical Center.

• If you are a healthcare provider interested in partnering with us, please complete the contact form below to schedule a meeting with us.

• If you are an employee of Providence or Capital Medical Center, please see the referral documents below or contact our Navigation Team hotline at (360) 870-9566 ext 2.

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The hospital system is not designed to serve individuals who no longer require medical care but have no safe place conducive to healing to which they can be discharged to.

• This leads hospitals to make the costly choice to retain these individuals as social admissions or discharge them to unsafe situations that put them at higher risk for recidivism.

• Further, when medically fragile people are discharged to the shelter with minimal coordination, it becomes a double burden for our community to address -- the strain on the hospital system, as well as the homeless response system.

REST beds are set aside for healthcare providers who contract with us to pay a daily rate for bed placements.

Additionally, the REST program is supported through Thurston County Public Health's homeless dollars, allocated through HB2163 funds, and potentially in the future through non-congregate shelter federal funds made possible by the American Recovery Act.

The REST program is not a medical treatment, psychiatric, skilled nursing, assisted living, rehabilitation, long-term shelter, substance use, or mental health care facility.

• The REST program serves only those individuals who are referred directly by partnering hospitals that meet the program's criteria and simply require a restful place to heal.

• The REST program is located in the IW Supportive Shelter and offers the guests a restful, calm atmosphere required for recovery.

• No on-site medical care is provided; however, REST peer support counselors will support and coordinate with outside visiting healthcare and caregiving providers to help discharged patients achieve their care plans.

• The Navigation Team's peer support workers will also work on a safe step-down plan for discharge from the REST bed within the 30-day timeframe.

We are always happy to share information with other service providers! You can contact our Navigation Team hotline at (360) 870-9566 or email navigation.team@iwshelter.org, and we will respond to you promptly.

We assist you in identifying personal goals and navigating local resources that help you attain them. We focus on housing, mental health, medical, and substance use.

We work together to identify your goals, create action plans to achieve them, and anticipate and minimize obstacles you are facing.

• Applying for benefits

• Setting and keeping appointments

• Overcoming transportation barriers

• Signing up for healthcare

• Finding primary care doctors

• Pursuing substance use treatment

• Accessing mental health services

• Making self-care plans

• Exploring housing options

(This is not a definitive list. Let’s get innovative.)

You can expect to spend at least 1-2 hours a week with your Navigator. Depending on your goals some weeks may require additional time spent together and others may require less.

We expect that you are participating in the program of your own free will and have an interest in increasing confidence in your own abilities to navigate the services that you want to connect to.

• We’ll go over what services you are already connected and where else you’d like to be connected to.

• Then you will complete an intake designed to help you write out what you want help with and set realistic goals you can achieve in a timely manner.

• Your Navigator’s job is to work with and alongside you to meet your goals. They’ll cheer you on and help you navigate through the system to get the help you need.

• Your role is to define the direction and lead the way.

The Navigators are peer support workers who you may already know. You will be paired with one of them as your point person and you will begin by meeting with them weekly.

Navigation Team Hotline: (360) 870-9566