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Health Care for the Homeless

The Institute's Healthcare for the Homeless Project provides services at seven Manhattan sites. Each site is assigned a medical provider and a social worker, unless the site has its own social service staff.

The program's goals are to make health care services easily accessible to the homeless population, to engage clients into care and identify and stabilize chronic medical and mental health conditions, and to assist people in getting the medical and social services they need. There is an emphasis on reaching out to identify clients who are at high risk for HIV infection and to promote HIV diagnostic testing and then follow-up care and services.

This program is funded by Care for the Homeless, which receives federal and other funding.In addition to the services provided by the Institute (described below), Care for the Homess staff provide HIV intensive case management, substance abuse counseling, psychiatry and mental health, HIV pre/post test counseling and HIV and general health education at many of our sites.

Visit the Care for the Homeless website.

For more information, contact Elisa Wallman, Director of Community Programs.
ewallman@institute2000.org

 

Homeless Program Locations

Ali Forney Center
This is a shelter for homeless youth who are lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or transgender. The Institute provides medical care and social services once a week.

All Angels Church
251 West 80th Street

This church has a small food program and offers showers and clothing to homeless people. The Institute provides medical and social services there two days a week.

Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th St.

This church has a soup kitchen for homeless and low-income people three days per week. The Institute provides medical and social services two days a week.

George Daly House
269 East Fourth St.

This is a transitional residence for 80 men and women age 50 and older who are, generally, substance free and in good mental health. The Institute provides medical services one day per week. The site provides social services.

Project Reachout
Amsterdam Avenue at 88th St.

Outreach workers visit Central Park and other Upper West Side locations daily to attempt to bring mentally ill homeless people to the Project Reachout site. The Institute provides medical care once a week, and Project Reachout offers extensive social services.

The Senate
206 West 92nd Street
This is a supportive SRO offering permanent housing to formerly homeless people, many of whom are mentally ill. The Institute provides medical care once a week.

Valley Lodge
149 West 108th St.

Valley Lodge is a transitional residence for homeless men and women over age 50, operated by the West Side Federation for Senior Housing. The Institute provides medical care two days a week and 8 hours of nursing services during the week, and the site provides intensive social services for these clients, many of whom have chronic medical problems or mental illness.

 

 

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