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Alpha House
Jersey City, NJ
A long-term group home for boys between the ages of ten and seventeen, Alpha House is one of twelve residential facilities in the Project YES program. Project YES provides a continuum of care to troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes for severely troubled children, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Ballington House
Elizabeth, NJ
Ballington House is a 29-bed residential program for pre-release offenders in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections. One of three community residences in the Project OASIS program, Ballington House provides support and a full range of intensive therapeutic services as residents secure employment or continue their education and prepare to become productive members of the community.
Bay City Residence
Perth Amboy, NJ
One of four residential sites in the Project PROMISE program, Bay City Residence is a 30-bed health care facility providing 24-hour supervision for adults living with severe and persistent mental illness. Project PROMISE provides comprehensive services with the goal of helping its consumers achieve independence in the community.
Booth House
New York, NY
Booth House is a 72-unit residence providing permanent supportive housing to single adults with psychiatric disabilities and a history of mental illness and homelessness.At Booth House there is a strong emphasis on building a sense of community among residents. This supportive environment assists men and women in rebuilding their lives, reclaiming their dignity and moving towards increased independence.
Brandon Residence
New York, NY
Located in a desirable residential neighborhood, the Brandon is a safe, clean, and affordable option for women visiting New York or relocating here from other areas. Residents include accomplished musicians, artists, students, educators and businesswomen.
Brandon Men's Program
New York, NY
This program assists men in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, with the goal of helping them return to an independent life, sober and drug-free. The program can accommodate a total of nine men at a time.
Bronx Early Learning Center
Bronx, NY
The Bronx ELC is one of two model programs providing comprehensive educational services to preschoolers with cognitive or language impairments, social and emotional difficulties, or sensory and motor issues. In some classes, developmentally delayed children learn alongside their typically developing peers. Supportive services are also available for the family.
Case Management for Older Adults
Staten Island, NY
Volunteers of America's Case Management for Older Adults is a community-based program designed to enable frail older adults to age in place by providing access to services and coordinating family and community support to delay or prevent institutionalization.
Charter Oak Community Support Services
Stratford, CT
For people who are not sick, but who are permanently disabled, Charter Oak Community Support Services is a lifeline to their dream of living full and independent lives. Our program helps people with a wide range of disabilities reach their vocational, social and independent-living goals. Our skilled and caring team works closely with consumers to create an individual service plan that focuses on their strengths, builds on existing support systems and addresses areas needing remediation. Our consumers include adults with vision and hearing impairments, acquired brain injuries, developmental disabilities, autism, mental illness, dual diagnoses and more.
Clifton Teaching Home
Clifton, NJ
A long-term group home for boys between the ages of ten and seventeen, Clifton Teaching Home is one of 12 residential facilities in the Project YES program. Project YES provides a continuum of care to troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes for severely troubled children, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Community Support Systems
Wards Island, NY
Community Support Systems provides the support, training and education that clients need to maintain psychiatric and medical stability and ultimately attain permanent housing. Our case management approach guides clients to set realistic goals for themselves based on their individual needs, and identifies community resources appropriate to address these needs.
Crossroads Residence
New Rochelle, NY
A 17-bed residential treatment program for men recovering from alcoholism, Crossroads provides comprehensive services with the goal of helping residents return to a sober and productive life in three to nine months. This program—an integral part of the Hudson Valley community—was commended by Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano for helping people overcome the ravages of drug addiction.
Developmental Services Administrative Office
Staten Island, NY
The Developmental Services Division provides residential services for developmentally delayed adults and pre-school for developmentally delayed children. The Administrative Office oversees and manages our developmental programs located in the Bronx and Staten Island, and is responsible for budget management, human resources, mental health, and other administrative and management operations.
East New York SRO
Brooklyn, NY
East New York SRO is a 175-unit residence providing permanent supportive housing and comprehensive on-site services to formerly homeless people and those living with mental illness or HIV and AIDS.
Eden House
Bronx, NY
Eden House is a 180-unit residence providing permanent supportive housing and comprehensive on-site services to formerly homeless people and those living with mental illness or HIV and AIDS.
Executive Office
New York, NY
The headquarters of Volunteers of America-Greater New York, the Executive Office includes the President's Office, Development & Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Information Services, Program Services, and Property Control and Risk Management/Purchasing.
Field House
East Orange, NJ
Field House is a 30-bed residential program for pre-release offenders in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections. One of three community residences in the Project OASIS program, Field House provides support and a full range of intensive therapeutic services as residents secure employment or continue their education and prepare to become productive members of the community.
Grasslands Homeless Shelter
Valhalla, NY
The Grasslands Shelter is a 149-bed capacity transitional residence providing comprehensive services to homeless adults and childless couples. The Grasslands program is the largest homeless shelter in Westchester County.
Harborview Senior Apartments
Jersey City, NJ
This is a senior housing complex in Jersey City serving 113 at-risk clients. Case managers develop a comprehensive service plan, make necessary referrals and follow-up to ensure services are delivered and that seniors can stay in their homes.
Horizon Program
Bronx, NY
With 160 scattered-site apartments in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, the Horizon Program provides permanent community-based housing and comprehensive services for people living with HIV and AIDS. The program enables single adults and families to live independently in the community, as self-sufficiently as possible, while providing extensive support services and counseling.
Housing Division Administrative Office
New York, NY
The Housing Division provides permanent and transitional supportive housing to formerly homeless persons and families, with the goal of helping them achieve independence and reintegration into the community. Populations served include families, individuals, adults at-risk of homelessness, seniors, and people living with HIV and AIDS. The Administrative Office oversees and manages our housing programs located in New York City, and is responsible for budget management, information systems, human resources, mental health, other administrative and management operations.
Independent Living Program
Jersey City, NJ
Project YES provides a continuum of care for severely troubled youth in twelve residential settings including transitional, emergency shelters and long-term group homes. The third step in our continuum of care is the Independent Living Program, supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Individual Residential Alternative
Staten Island, NY
Individual Residential Alternative is a 43-bed scattered-site program providing permanent supportive housing for adults with developmental disabilities, with the goal of promoting integration into the community, employment, and full and active lives.
Jamaica Women's Next Step Employment Shelter
Jamaica, NY
Jamaica Women's Next Step Employment Shelter is a 65-bed program designed to serve the shelter system's most resistant clients. The program provides intensive, structured case management services coupled with strict client responsibility in order to help clients overcome the barriers that have prevented them from moving out of the shelter system and into permanent housing.
Keener Assessment and Rapid Re-housing Shelter
Wards Island, NY
The Keener Assessment and Rapid Re-housing Shelter is a 234-bed facility that assesses clients' immediate needs upon entry into the shelter system and quickly places them in permanent or transitional housing.
Kennedy Outreach Program
Wards Island, NY
Outreach teams engage homeless people at JFK airport to assess their needs and offer assistance with the goal of helping them move off the streets and obtain needed services. Kennedy Outreach staff is on call 24-hours a day, seven days a week, to provide service for homeless individuals requesting help or to respond to concerned citizens reporting homeless individuals in crisis.
LaGuardia Outreach Program
Wards Island, NY
Outreach teams engage homeless people at LaGuardia airport to assess their needs and offer assistance with the goal of helping them move off the streets and obtain needed services. LaGuardia Outreach staff is on call 24- hours a day, seven days a week, to provide service for homeless individuals requesting help or to respond to concerned citizens reporting homeless individuals in crisis.
Lydia E. Hoffman Family Residence
Bronx, NY
A transitional facility for homeless families, Lydia E. Hoffman Family Residence offers 24-hour security, on-site childcare, classrooms, and recreational space for 35 families, each with their own apartment. A full range of supportive services provides the help a family needs to achieve independence and obtain permanent housing.
Mid-Hudson Division Administrative Office
Hawthorne, NY
The Mid-Hudson Division provides intensive home Case Management for people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, residential treatment for men and women recovering from addiction, and temporary shelter and comprehensive services to homeless adults with special needs, including substance abusers in recovery and people living with AIDS or other serious health conditions. The Administrative Office oversees and manages our Mid-Hudson programs located in Westchester County, and is responsible for budget management, information systems, human resources,and other administrative and management operations.
Myrtle House
Edison, NJ
One of four residential sites in the Project PROMISE program, Myrtle House is an 8-bed health care facility providing 24-hour supervision to individuals with chronic mental illness and chemical addiction. Project PROMISE provides comprehensive services in group residential settings for adults living with severe and persistent mental illness, with the goal of helping them achieve independence in the community.
New Hope Shelter
Brooklyn, NY
New Hope is an 80-bed facility providing comprehensive services and safe, anonymous housing for individuals and their children recovering from domestic violence. By promoting the importance of safety, responsibility and independence, survivors gain long-term skills that enable them to overcome everyday challenges after leaving the shelter.
NIA Teaching Home
West Paterson, NJ
A long-term group home for boys between the ages of ten and seventeen, NIA Teaching Home is one of twelve residential facilities in the Project YES program. Project YES provides a continuum of care to troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes for severely troubled children, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Northern New Jersey Division Administrative Office
Rahway, NJ
The Northern New Jersey Division provides comprehensive services to people in need including persons with mental illness, adult offenders, and at-risk youth. The Administrative Office oversees and manages our Northern New Jersey programs and is responsible for budget management, information systems, human resources, mental health, and other administrative and management operations.
NYC Homeless Services Administrative Office
Wards Island, NY
The Homeless Services Division provides a continuum of care for those who are homeless or at risk for becoming homeless - from outreach to ongoing support when permanent housing is established. The Administrative Office oversees and manages our homeless programs located throughout the New York area and is responsible for budget management, information systems, human resources, mental health, and other administrative and management operations.
Parenting Skills Partnership Program
Rahway, NJ
Through in-home visits, highly trained counselors help parents cope with the children's unique behavioral problems and work with the children to reinforce socially acceptable behaviors, and help them make a successful transition to family living.
Queens Forensic Linkage Transition Program
Jamaica, NY
The Queens Forensic Link Program serves 250 adult men and women living in Queens who have been arrested, detained by the police or spent time in jail and also live with serious mental illness. The program provides comprehensive one-on-one support for individuals trapped in the cycle of repeat incarceration and hospitalization by linking them with the services they need to reenter community life.
Reception Center
New York, NY
The Reception Center is a 46-bed, short-term program offering comprehensive services to service-resistant mentally ill and elderly-frail homeless men with the goal of placement in permanent housing within six months. These individuals are unable or unwilling to take advantage of traditional shelter services and programs due to severe and persistent mental illness, an untreated medical condition, or advanced age.
Regent Family Residence
New York, NY
Regent Family Residence is a transitional residence providing 24-hour security, on-site childcare, classrooms, and recreational space for 140 families, each with their own apartment. A full range of supportive services provides the help a family needs to achieve independence and obtain permanent housing.
Respite Care Services
Jersey City, NJ
Respite is a Project YES program offering temporary, emergency shelter for children, ages eight to seventeen, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Project YES provides a continuum of care to severely troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Richard F. Salyer House
New York, NY
A 146-unit facility providing permanent supportive housing to a mixed population of families, the elderly, formerly homeless people and those living with HIV and AIDS. The facility features on-site support services for residents, including case management, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, recreation, and linkage to community services and activities.
Rikers Island Discharge Enhancement (RIDE)
Jamaica, NY
Volunteers of America's RIDE program provides pre- and post-release case management to Rikers Island inmates. Services begin in the weeks preceding release and focus on helping clients find suitable housing and employment opportunities, as well as linking them to appropriate benefits and community resources. The goal of the program is to help Rikers Island inmates make a smooth transition to independent living and reduce the likelihood of re-incarceration.
Rose House
New York, NY
Rose House is a 96-unit residence providing permanent supportive housing to formerly homeless people and those living with mental illness or HIV or AIDS. Staff work with residents to develop an individualized plan for success, based on the goals, desires and ability of each resident. To help residents cope with the challenges of everyday independent living, we assist with medication monitoring, crisis intervention and daily living skills training.
Schwartz Next Step Employment Shelter
Wards Island, NY
Schwartz Next Step Employment Shelter provides comprehensive services to help service-resistant homeless men obtain employment and move off the streets and into permanent housing.
Service Engagement Team
New York, NY
Located at the 30th Street Men's Shelter in Manhattan, the Service Engagement Team identifies and engages homeless individuals who are "service resistant" to assure the client's immediate needs are met and to advocate for an appropriate disposition based on an assessment of their needs.
Staten Island and Booklyn MICA ACT Program
Staten Island, NY
The Staten Island and Brooklyn MICA Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program offers community-based treatment for individuals with a diagnosis of mental illness and chemical addiction (MICA) and a history of non-compliance. The ultimate goal is to help clients attain stability in terms of their immediate needs and follow their treatment regimen, ultimately improving their psychiatric and medical stability and lessening their dependence on the inpatient hospital system.
Staten Island Early Learning Center
Staten Island, NY
The Staten Island ELC is one of two model programs providing comprehensive educational services to preschoolers with cognitive or language impairments, social and emotional difficulties, or sensory and motor issues. In some classes, developmentally delayed children learn alongside their typically developing peers. Supportive services are also available for the family.
Synergy I-III
Synergy is a Project YES program offering residential care to young men and women between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one at three independent living sites in Northern New Jersey. Project YES provides a continuum of care to troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes for severely troubled children, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged out of the foster care system.
Theodora House
Fanwood, NJ
One of four residential sites in the Project PROMISE program, Theodora House is an 8-bed, health care facility providing 24-hour supervision to individuals with chronic mental illness. Project PROMISE provides comprehensive services in group residential settings for adults living with severe and persistent mental illness, with the goal of helping them achieve independence and integration into the community.
Union Supportive Housing
Elizabeth, NJ
One of four residential sites in the Project PROMISE program, Union Supportive Housing is a 10-bed health care facility providing rehabilitative case management services. Project PROMISE provides comprehensive services in group residential settings for adults living with severe and persistent mental illness, with the goal of helping them achieve independence and integration into the community.
University Family Residence
Bronx, NY
University Family Residence offers 24-hour security, on-site childcare, classrooms, and recreational space for 70 families, each with their own apartment. A full range of supportive services provides the help a family needs to achieve independence and obtain permanent housing.
Valhalla Residence
Hawthorne, NY
A 19-bed transitional home, Valhalla Residence provides 24-hour care and comprehensive services to homeless men and women with special needs, including substance abusers in recovery and people living with AIDS or other serious health conditions.
Wayne Teaching Home
Wayne, NJ
A long-term group home for boys between the ages of ten and seventeen, Wayne Teaching Home is one of twelve residential facilities in the Project YES program. Project YES provides a continuum of care to troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes for severely troubled children, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
Webster House
Bronx, NY
A 200-unit residence providing permanent supportive housing to formerly homeless people and those living with mental illness or AIDS, Webster House provides safe, comfortable, low-cost housing with comprehensive on-site services.
Woodland House
Plainfield, NJ
Woodland House is a Project YES program offering temporary, emergency shelter for children, ages eight to seventeen, in Plainfield, New Jersey. Project YES provides a continuum of care to severely troubled youth including temporary, emergency shelters and long-term group homes, and supervised apartment living for young men and women who have aged-out of the foster care system.
