Support,
Safety and Success
Care for the Homeless opened Susan’s Place,
a 180-bed transitional residence with an onsite medical and dental
clinic on August 6, 2008. Susan’s Place is dedicated to serving
medically frail and mentally ill homeless women, providing them
with healthy meals, clean clothing, recreational activities and
a broad range of primary health care and social services. Susan’s
Place gives these women a safe and supportive environment and the
services that will help keep them re-housed after we place them
in permanent housing.
Susan’s Place emphasizes appropriate housing
placement and transition to needed program services that allow maximum
self-sufficiency for all Susan’s Place clients.
Susan’s Place residence has a dedicated staff
that includes social workers, case managers, housing specialists,
aftercare specialists, substance abuse counselors, and a recreational
therapist. Our licensed medical and dental clinic has a primary
care provider, social worker, psychiatrists, registered nurse, medical
assistant, part-time dentist and part-time podiatrist.
Susan’s Place clients have the opportunity to
participate in a wide range of activities including in-house education
groups, recreational activities and support groups (Alcoholic Anonymous,
Narcotics Anonymous). The residence hosts a library and a computer
lab that is used for educational pursuit as well as recreation and
communications with others.
Susan’s Place is an active member of the vibrant
Jerome Avenue community. Our first Open House in 2008 hosted by
NY 1 Anchor Dominic Carter was attended by over 200 local community
and business leaders, friends and other supporters.
If you need more information please contact:
Ines Calnek
Director of Susan's Place
Susan L. Neibacher Care for the Homeless Women's Center
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