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National:
The
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the nation’s leading patient-directed organization focusing specifically on depression and bipolar disorder. DBSA provides information, supports research, and works to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably.
Massachusetts: Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program(BHCHP), the largest and most comprehensive health care for the homeless program in the U.S., began in 1985 as one of 19 related programs funded nationally by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust. BHCHP’s mission is to provide access to the highest-quality health care for Boston’s homeless men, women, and children.
Ecclesia Ministries is a church community that engages homeless and privileged people, service providers, clergy, churches, seminarians, and others in ongoing activities that work to meet the important physical, social, and spiritual needs of homeless people.
Starlight Ministries, an urban ministry program of the
Emmanuel Gospel Center, serves the long-term, chronic homeless in Boston and Cambridge. Starlight Ministries’ emphasis is on working with the most vulnerable populations, both adults and the increasing number of homeless youth and young adults.
St. Francis House welcomes those in need with open arms, offering basic care and services that make the difference between hope and despair, and often between life and death. St. Francis House provides its clients with food, shelter, showers, medical care, mail and ID services, and clean, seasonally appropriate clothing.
Sidewalk Connection acts as a referral source to match the needs of the homeless with the appropriate human service providers offering shelter, substance abuse facilities, meals, clothing, healthcare, job training, and affordable housing.
The
Boston Public Health Commission Homeless Services offers services to Boston residents, emphasizing preventive approaches to healthcare.
The Barbara McInnis House, a medical respite facility of
BHCHP, provides short-term medical and recuperative services to homeless men and women who do not require hospitalization but are too sick to tolerate the stress of life in shelters or on the street.
Community Resources Information, Inc. (CRI) develops Internet Web sites that provide comprehensive information on state and local resources relevant to the needs of low- and moderate-income families and individuals of all ages.
New York:
Geel Community Services, Inc., offers New York City’s needy and mentally ill stable places to live, counseling, and supportive services. Inspired by the centuries-old example of
Geel, Belgium, a town whose citizens open their homes to the mentally ill, Geel Community Services gives persons in recovery a sense of self-worth and helps them find their way back to independence.
Pittsburg:
Operation Safety Net, an outreach program of Mercy Hospital, serves the homeless population of the Pittsburgh area. Operation Safety Net’s programs include walking teams of clinicians and formerly homeless workers who provide care in the streets, a mobile medical services van, a drop-in clinic, training for future clinicians in serving the homeless, and other projects.
Birmingham Free Clinic, one of several facilities in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s
Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations, is a clinic serving homeless people.
Chicago:
Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit providers of mental health services, provides a comprehensive program of therapeutic support, case management, education, job training and placement, and housing for Chicago-area residents. Thresholds operates a
homeless program with a mobile unit to deliver psychiatric care and resource referral to people on the streets struggling with serious mental illness.
The
Center for Whole Health at Fourth Presbyterian Church works in tandem with other community organizations to offer health education and services, teaching, counseling, spiritual care, and support for the training and mentoring of care teams in the heart of Chicago.
Interfaith House provides programs and services to more than 6,000 homeless men and women in medical recovery. In addition to a safe place to recover from illness or injury, Interfaith House offers mental health and substance abuse services, nutrition services, housing advocacy, and employment counseling.
The
Advocate Health Care Office for Mission and Spiritual Care is a department within the
Advocate Health Care organization that seeks to integrate a faith-based mission into the delivery of health care.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago’s
Mental Illness Ministries serve persons with diseases of the brain such as schizophrenia, bi-polar diseases, chronic depression, personality disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and others.
The
Cathedral Shelter of Chicago is a facility of the Episcopal Diocese that serves homeless people by offering employment skills training, addiction counseling, literacy tutoring, and help in reuniting separated families.
Virginia:
Family Advocacy Creating Education and Services (FACES)is a non-profit corporation founded by families of loved ones with brain disorders. The mission of FACES is to serve and support families across Virginia by helping to dissolve the stigma surrounding mental illness.
The
Virginia Interfaith Committee on Mental Illness Ministries (VICOMIM) serves to educate clergy and laity about mental illness. VICOMIM offers resources to faith communities developing their own programs for ministry with persons with mental illness and their families.
United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond (UMUMR) seeks to facilitate systemic transformations of communities within Richmond, regardless of denomination or faith identity, by connecting people and organizations and helping them work together to strengthen their communities. Among UMUMR’s particular areas of concern are healthcare and housing.
