Congregate Housing
Foundation House North and Foundation House South
Foundation House North and Foundation House South are HASA contracted transitional congregate housing programs with a maximum stay of 180 days. The clients served are in urgent situations and are mainly referred from hospitals, prisons and commercial SROs.
Foundation House North is located in Washington Heights and has 10 rooms (4 rooms for single adults and 6 rooms for adult couples). Foundation House South, located in the East Village, has 14 single rooms.
Our services include:
•Safe, secure shelter for a maximum of 180 days
•Three nutritious meals per day, 365 days per year
•Onsite Intensive Case Management
•Individual and group counseling and workshops geared toward 1) strengthening ADL skills of cooking, cleaning, budgeting and shopping; 2) enhancing self-efficacy intended to achieve productive relationships with HASA workers, workers in other agencies, and personal contacts; and 3) developing productive conflict resolution skills
•Referrals to health care and aggressive advocacy to ensure clients’ entry into and maintenance in health care services
•Care coordination with other providers, including health care, methadone maintenance, psychiatric and specialty providers
•Onsite medical assessment within a week of admission
•Psychosocial assessment geared towards assessing appropriate housing placements
•Referrals to supportive housing programs and (for some clients) assistance in obtaining independent apartments
Contact Person:
Alan Clarke, Program Director
Foundation House North and South
536 West 187th Street
New York, NY 10033
212-923-1123
Fax: 212-923-9628
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Foundation House West
Foundation House West, located at 150 West 124th Street, is funded by HASA and HUD. This program houses 25 clients. Twenty clients are diagnosed with chronic health/AIDS diagnosis and homeless histories and five clients meet the criteria for New York/New York III status, which is severe mental illness and chronic homelessness.
Harlem United created Foundation House West to service HIV/AIDS individuals who are failing medically and present with a multitude of issues such as chronic homelessness, substance abuse, mental illness and extreme poverty.
The program mission is to assist clients in attaining personal medical stability and independent living skills and to involve them in model interventions that promote disease management and stability through connection to and maintenance in primary care.
Our services include:
•Supportive case management
•Mental health counseling
•Life skills training
•Vocational educational training
•Primary medical and home care referrals
•Entitlement assistance and advocacy
•Substance use assessment and Harm Reduction counseling
•Mental health assessment and counseling
•Medical monitoring and medication adherence
•Connection to and maintenance in health care
•Apartment unit maintenance/environmental safety support
Contact Person:
Laureen Johnson, Program Director
Foundation House West
150 West 124th Street
New York, New York 10027
(212) 316-7045
