Center for Excellence in
Long Term Supports Innovation

Who We Are
Mission and Vision
History
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Who We Are

What ever your role in long-term supports, expanding consumer choice and related long-term supports system capacity is challenging. State officials, advocates, elders and persons with disabilities, and long-term supports providers all are struggling with increasing demand for long-term supports and difficult fiscal environments.

The Center for Excellence in Long Term Supports Innovation is housed within the Community Solutions Group (CSG) of NCB Capital Impact. CLTSI approaches our work from an actionable policy perspective. With a long history of housing with services work, CLTSI innovates and replicates sustainable and scalable long-term supports models nationwide.

CLTSI has wide-ranging expertise in long-term supports systems, housing finance and policy, and long-terms supports business models. Our team of experts build bridges among the diverse array of disciplines that must work together to create flexible and affordable long-term supports options. Our team has extensive experience and a proven-track record working with states, long-term supports providers, and advocacy organizations.

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Mission and Vision

Our mission is to help older Americans and persons with disabilities to conduct their lives with maximum independence, dignity, and connection with their communities

The Center for Long Term Supports Innovation has a broad vision for aiding individuals, communities and government, and providers to identify or expand innovative concepts to meet our nation’s growing long term support services demand.  Our vision is to:

  • Foster the delivery of state of the art long-term care services and supports to low-income individuals and their families
  • Support communities, states, and the federal government in the development of adequate LTC options, systems and infrastructure to meet demand
  • Assist all LTC providers to deliver high quality services that meet the needs and preferences of individuals and families
  • Develop models that meet consumer preferences with maximum efficiency
  • Serve as a to connect critical policy and practice elements of LTC service systems including housing financing and development options, Medicaid and other financing options, and income supports

As the population of seniors and persons with disabilities grows, integrating housing, housing finance and innovative long-term supports solutions will be critical for government, long-term supports providers to support active and better educated long-term supports consumers (e.g., seniors and people with disabilities have a clearer vision of what they want than in the past).

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History

We grew out of the Coming Home program. The Coming Home Program began in September 1999 and ended October 2007. The program was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The program was designed to bring the benefits of assisted living to low-income, frail seniors living in rural areas. Coming Home created models of assisted living that serve low-income seniors. It focused on smaller communities where there are fewer options for frail seniors, particularly those with modest incomes.

Using our expertise garnered from the Coming Home Program, the Center for Long Term Supports Innovation provides innovative and expert technical assistance to states and community-based organizations. Our long history of housing with services work allows the Center for Long Term Supports Innovation to innovate and replicate sustainable and scalable long term care models nationwide. We are one of the nation’s leading resources for developing affordable, community-based housing options with particular expertise in affordable assisted living and integrated housing for seniors and persons with disabilities.

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Our Staff

Selected Staff Bios

Candace Baldwin 
As Senior Policy Advisor at NCB Capital Impact, Candace Baldwin provides technical assistance in the areas of affordable real estate development and long term service policy to support communities, states, and the federal government in the development of adequate long term supports options, systems and infrastructure to expand access to community based innovations for the elderly and individuals with disabilities. Ms. Baldwin has over 10 years of experience in the community development industry and has focused much of her career managing real estate development projects including affordable housing, commercial development and mixed-use development.

Karen Shakira Kali
Karen Shakira Kali, Research Analyst at NCB Capital Impact, has focused on urban planing, specifically affordable housing and community development since 2001. As Research Analyst, Ms. Kali provides technical assistance on multiple projects and initiatives concerning housing and community development issues for seniors and people with disabilities. Ms. Kali served as Project Coordinator at the American Planning Association and as Housing Trust Fund Associate for the Housing Trust Fund Project of the Center for Community Change. Ms. Kali is a certified urban planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners.

 

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