Long-Term Care Operations VISTA

Imagine Art’s mission is to leverage art and place; empowering artists with disabilities who become creative catalysts for changing systems of day habilitation; long-term care, peer support, and affordable housing. Live + Make is a mixed use, affordable housing project, anchored in the arts, targeting artists and individuals with and without disabilities. Live + Make uniquely embraces a creative placemaking approach that leverages the arts to serve the community’s interests while spearheading broader social justice goals to creatively intersect housing, long-term care, job readiness and food security. The AmeriCorps member serving in the Imagine Art Live+Make Long-Term Care Operations VISTA role will serve to provide capacity building support to integrate Imagine Art’s Long-term care program into the Live+Make initiative. This capacity building role supports the long-term care client population served by Imagine Art – 65 persons with disabilities who are living throughout Texas and considered in poverty with average annual resources under $10k per year, who are at a higher risk for institutionalization, housing displacement, hunger, unemployment and challenges in accessing community-based resources.

The AmeriCorps member serving in the Imagine Art Live+Make Long-Term Care Operations VISTA role will continue to support the ongoing changes released by Health and Human Services Commission (regulations and system changes), upkeep of the sustainable systems for policy and protocol through continuous development of a single source Operating Manual for programs operating the Long-Term Care program at the Live+Make campus. In addition, they will collaborate with third-party vendor to continue processes on cost analysis that integrates data from the program model, HHSC billing and QuickBooks payroll, to determine cost effectiveness of program services. This VISTA role will also continue to support operations of long-term care program integration at Live+Make Campus.