Service Overview
Many people experiencing homelessness face overlapping barriers to physical and mental health care, including gaps in availability and stigma related to care itself. While housing is an important first step toward achieving stability among chronically homeless individuals, housing alone may not be enough. Instead, low- to no-barrier wraparound models for integrated case management and treatment access show promise in improving recovery outcomes among individuals with substance use disorders living in permanent supportive housing.
Sites and Programs
Mobile Outreach & Support Services
OMNIA! is a new program that aims to better meet the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness who are actively struggling with substance use or other co-occurring disorders.
Through ongoing outreach to unsheltered and sheltered individuals in the Bronx, our team will provide evidence-based behavioral health services, case management, and wraparound services to enrolled clients for up to nine months, or until discharged. Our goal is to ensure that each individual is linked to the services and resources they need to achieve substance use recovery, maintain permanent housing, and ultimately, leave homelessness behind for good.
Through ongoing outreach to unsheltered and sheltered individuals in the Bronx, our team will provide evidence-based behavioral health services, case management, and wraparound services to enrolled clients for up to nine months, or until discharged. Our goal is to ensure that each individual is linked to the services and resources they need to achieve substance use recovery, maintain permanent housing, and ultimately, leave homelessness behind for good.
Enriched Support Services
Through VOA-GNY’s HomeBASE initiative, a team of clinical social workers and benefits specialists provides enriched support services to residents of four of our permanent supportive housing programs—the same four that are part of VOA-GNY’s Street to Home pilot program.