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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Homeless Shelters
Mission: For more than thirty years, immacare has been a life-saving resource for thousands of homeless individuals, providing street outreach, emergency shelter, supportive housing and client-centered case management services. The agency helps individuals most vulnerable to life on the streets of hartford; those with debilitating illnesses, homeless veterans and those with severe substance abuse/mental health issues.
Programs: The permanent supportive housing program moves homeless men and women off the streets and out of shelters into their own homes. Currently, more than 125 previously homeless individuals now live independently and hold their own apartment leases in scattered-site apartments throughout hartford. Case managers work with residents, linking them to needed services such as: medical and mental health care, addiction services, entitlement assistance, education and job training.
the emergency shelter is a year round program serving homeless men in the greater hartford area by providing temporary housing/shelter, hot and nutritious meals, medical assistance and linkages to community-based services such as mental health and substance abuse treatment, education and employment, health care and more. The agency provided such services to 761 homeless individuals. The outreach program searches for chronically homeless men and women living under bridges, in parks and abandoned buildings, who due to a variety of reasons do not want to stay in the shelter. Staff provided 349 homeless individuals with food, clothing, blankets, water and work with them to engage in the services they require.
immacare houses more formerly homeless persons in casa de francisco, a 50-unit supportive housing complex in which half of the apartments house formerly chronically homeless individuals and half are open to individuals with incomes below 50% of the area's median income. Similar to our scattered-site permanent supportive housing program, case managers work with the residents offering assistance in areas such as: medical and mental health care, addiction services, entitlement assistance, education and job training.