$5 Million Awarded for Recovery Housing and Services in Boston

BOSTON — The Govt Workplace of Well being and Human Providers (EOHHS) and the Division of Public Well being (DPH) immediately introduced $5 million in funding over three years for 2 companies in Boston to supply hire subsidies and intensive stabilization and help providers to people impacted by psychological well being and substance use issues.

Boston-based nonprofit organizations Commonwealth Land Belief and St. Francis Home will present housing and providers for over 100 people in Boston by 2025. Each organizations have intensive expertise offering low-threshold housing and Housing First fashions for which sobriety is just not a requirement for accessing or sustaining housing. In addition they have expertise in offering hurt discount providers in addition to expertise working with people experiencing homelessness, substance use, psychological sickness, and co-occurring issues.

• Commonwealth Land Belief plans to supply 25 models of housing with supportive providers in Roxbury Crossing. 

• St. Francis Home plans to supply:
  • 45 housing models with providers for 96 people at The Helm in South Boston, to open by March 2024
  • 70 housing models with providers at La Grange Avenue within the Chinatown neighborhood, to open November 2024

The Division of Public Well being’s Bureau of Substance Habit Providers (BSAS) established the Restoration Housing and Providers grant program in Might 2022. This system was created to scale back housing instability, encourage and help remedy and restoration, and advance psychological and bodily well being fairness for Boston residents.

The first aim of the initiative is to help people early of their restoration by providing secure, everlasting housing and addressing their medical and psychological well being wants to advertise self-sufficiency, scale back the danger of relapse, and foster engagement in ongoing restoration help providers.

“Acquiring protected and secure housing is a essential step for people impacted by psychological well being and substance use issues and people experiencing homelessness,” stated Well being and Human Providers Secretary Marylou Sudders. “Housing instability is commonly a barrier to a profitable restoration. This mix of housing and providers meets folks the place they’re and help every particular person’s path to restoration.

“Addressing social determinants of well being – together with housing – is a core element of our technique to handle substance use and habit utilizing a public well being strategy,” stated Public Well being Commissioner Margret Cooke.

About Commonwealth Land Belief

Commonwealth Land Belief is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that has been offering inexpensive housing and case administration providers within the Higher Boston space since 1985. CLT owns and manages over 350 models of inexpensive housing in twenty properties, offering housing and supportive providers to over 650 of Massachusetts’ most weak residents. Linking housing and care, CLT works to rebuild lives and communities.LT offers inexpensive flats serving homeless and low- to moderate-income households, in addition to supportive housing packages serving homeless, disabled, and really low-income people.

About St. Francis Home

St. Francis Home is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group positioned within the coronary heart of Downtown Boston. St. Francis Home is the most important day shelter in Massachusetts, serving tons of of people experiencing homelessness each single day. Visitors are offered meals, shelter, clothes, showers, and entry to medical care, mail providers, telephones, and computer systems. All company have entry to psychological well being help, substance use help, and housing navigation assets, and extra by case administration. Yearly, St. Francis Home offers greater than 180,000 scorching and nutritious meals to company in want, 8,200 modifications of unpolluted clothes, together with jackets, footwear, and backpacks, and over 10,000 medical appointments.

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