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Site V;s'ts and Meetings with
Local Providers of Serv;ees
to the Homeless
As part of the research plan for this study, members of the committee
and members of the study staff conducted site visits to various programs
serving the homeless in 1 1 cities: Boston; Chicago; Kansas City; Lex-
ington; Los Angeles; Milwaukee; Nashville; San Diego; San Francisco;
St. Louis; and Washington, D.C. In addition, site visits to observe the
problems of homeless people in rural areas were conducted under special
funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in
Alabama, Minnesota, Mississippi, and North Dakota. In those cities that
received grants from the Health Care for the Homeless program jointly
funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Memorial
Trust (Johnson-Pew HCH), the sites visited were primarily those con-
nected with this program.
The following sites were visited:
The Cardinal Medeiros Day Center of the Kit Clarke Senior House (Boston): A
day program for the elderly homeless that operates an outreach van throughout
Boston; in addition to serving food to the elderly homeless, the van is staffed by
a nurse who visually observes the homeless people for signs of illness or medical
problems.
Christ Church (St. Louis): A shelter for homeless adults and homeless families
located in a church-owned building; the shelter provides health evaluation and
education through the services of a public health nurse.
Christ House (Washington, D.C.~: A 34-bed convalescent center for homeless
people with medical problems; located in a restored apartment building, this
facility includes a full medical and nursing clinic and on-site living quarters for
the medical staff.
City Union Mission (Kansas City): A shelter, a transitional living program, and
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an alcohol detoxification program for homeless men; the facility has an on-site
. . .
nursing c. .lnlc.
Cook County Jail (Chicago): A prison with a highly regarded medical program;
since some homeless people receive medical care only if they are incarcerated,
this facility was toured to observe the quality of such care.
Cooper's Place (Chicago): A drop-in center for homeless men; health screening
services are provided by the Chicago Johnson-Pew Health Care for the Homeless
project.
Downtown Clinic (Nashville): A central clinic operated under the Nashville
Johnson-Pew HCH project; this is the first HCH project to be incorporated into
an existing governmental structure and is now operating as a public clinic of the
city and county health department.
Emergency Lodge (Kansas City): A shelter operated by the Salvation Army
that serves both individual adults and homeless families; this program also has a
transitional living apartment project for homeless families.
Emergency Lodge (Milwaukee): Also operated by the Salvation Army; this
program for individual adults and families receives health screening services from
the Milwaukee Johnson-Pew HCH project and health care services from a nearby
community health center.
Emergency Lodge (St. Louis): Operated by the Salvation Army, this shelter
serves homeless families; its program includes a day care center for children so
that their parents can search for employment or vocational training during the
day.
Family Crisis Center (Milwaukee): A shelter for single-parent families that
provides a broad spectrum of social service programs; it receives health care
services from the Milwaukee Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Firehouse Annex (Chicago): A day center and transitional living program for
homeless women; it receives health screening services from the Chicago Johnson-
Pew HCH project.
Folsom Street Hotel (San Francisco): The site of a supportive living program
for homeless people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) admin-
istered by Catholic Charities.
Guest House (Milwaukee): A shelter for individual adults with a high prevalence
of mental illness among its client population; it receives health care services from
the Milwaukee Johnson-Pew HCH project and mental health assessments from
the county hospital.
Harbor House (St. Louis): A three-stage (detoxification, maintenance of sobri-
ety, and reintegration into the community) alcohol rehabilitation program for
homeless men; along with Harbor Light, a shelter for homeless men located
adjacent to it, this program is operated by the Salvation Army.
Horizon Center for the Homeless (Lexington): A day center for homeless adults
with a nursing clinic operated in conjunction with the College of Nursing of the
University of Kentucky.
Hospitality House (St. Louis): A shelter for homeless adults, primarily women;
it receives health care services from a public health nurse and a nearby health
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clinic.
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House of Ruth (Washington, D.C.~: A multisite program for homeless women,
including shelters for battered women and homeless women who are pregnant;
it receives health care services from the Washington Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Larkin Street Youth Center (San Francisco): A day center for homeless runaway
and throwaway youths; the center has a health clinic, a group counseling program,
and an aggressive AIDS prevention education program.
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital (Jamaica Plains, Mass.~: The site of a 20-bed
convalescent program located within a municipal shelter that is part of a state
health care facility, but funded by the Boston Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Life Ministries (San Diego): A mission shelter for homeless men that operates
an on-site all-volunteer medical and nursing clinic in the evenings.
Long Island Shelter (Boston): A municipal shelter for the homeless with an on-
site nursing clinic.
Meharry Community Mental Health Center (Nashville): A community mental
health center that provides mental health workers to the Nashville Johnson-Pew
HCH project to conduct street outreach to the homeless mentally ill.
Near North Health Center Outpost Clinic (Chicago): A community health center
that serves as one of the sites for the Chicago Johnson-Pew HCH project's mobile
team.
Oakland Independence Support Center (Oakland, Calif.~: A self-help day program
operated by and for people with histories of psychiatric hospitalization; the center
provides assistance in locating affordable housing for members who are or may
become homeless.
Pilgrim House (Kansas City): A shelter for homeless families operated as part
of the City Union Mission; Pilgrim House receives health and social services
from the Kansas City project for health care for homeless people, which was
developed as a result of public and private effort when Kansas City did not
receive one of the Johnson-Pew HCH project grants.
Pine Street Inn (Boston): One of the oldest shelters for homeless men in the
United States; the Inn has its own medical and nursing clinic, as well as a
separate clinic operated by the Boston Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Project Hope (Boston): A shelter for homeless families that receives health
services from the Boston Johnson-Pew HCH prefects family health team.
Restart, Inc. (Kansas City): An interfaith transitional living program (which
also provides emergency shelter during periods of weather extremes); this program
places a heavy emphasis on vocational and social services, including a revolving
fund to provide financial assistance to homeless people starting their own
businesses.
So Others Might Eat (SOME) (Washington, D.C.~: A soup kitchen that also
provides an array of medical, dental, and support services to homeless people.
Shamrock Club (St. Louis): A membership day center for mentally ill homeless
adults; receives health care services from a nearby health clinic.
St. Anthony's Clinic (San Francisco): One of the oldest health care programs
serving homeless people in the United States; the clinic is divided into two
halves, one serving individual adults and the other serving families.
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St. Benedict's Meal Site (Milwaukee): An evening meal program that serves
between 500 and 700 meals per night; an on-site clinic is operated by the
Milwaukee Johnson-Pew HCH project 2 nights per week.
St. Francis House (Boston): A multiservice center for homeless adult men and
women; it has a health clinic (partly funded by the Boston Johnson-Pew HCH
project) and mental health and vocational training programs.
Union Rescue Mission (Los Angeles): A shelter for homeless men located in
the skid row section of Los Angeles; it is the site for a nursing clinic funded by
the Los Angeles Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Union Rescue Mission (Nashville): A large shelter for homeless men with its
own medical and dental clinics primarily staffed by volunteer doctors and dentists
and students from Meharry Medical School and Meharry College of Dentistry.
Valley Shelter, Inc. (Los Angeles): A shelter for homeless adults and families
located in a former motel in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles
County; it receives health, mental health, and social services from the Los
Angeles Johnson-Pew HCH project.
Venice Family Clinic (Los Angeles): A free clinic founded in the 1960s; it
receives funding from the Los Angeles Johnson-Pew ITCH project to provide
health care to homeless families in the Venice Beach/Santa Monica area.
Veterans Administration Community Residence Program (Lexington): One of
many such programs operated by the U.S. Veterans Administration, this program
places physically and/or mentally disabled veterans into residential programs at
the time of their discharge from a VA medical center as a means of preventing
them from becoming homeless.
Veterans Administration Outreach Program (St. Louis): One of several programs
initiated as a result of legislative action in the winter of 198~1987; this program
sends outreach workers onto the streets to identify homeless veterans in an
attempt to bring them into the VA system for services.
YWCA (San DiegoJ: A program to provide temporary housing to chronically
ill homeless women via contract with the Division of Mental Health Services of
the San Diego County Department of Health Services.
In addition to these sites that were visited, members of the committee
and the study staff met with the following groups of local officials and
. .
service prove ers:
· Congressman Bill Boner (now mayor of Nashville, Tennessee), April
20, 1987.
· Kansas City Health Care for the Homeless People staff, April 30,
1987.
· Lexington, Kentucky, city officials and not-for-profit service provid-
ers, April 21, 1987.
· Los Angeles County Department of Health, May 6, 1987.
· Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, May 6, 1987.
· Los Angeles Health Care for the Homeless Project Governance
Committee, May 5, 1987.
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· National Street Outreach Conference, Milwaukee, April 28, 1987.
· San Diego (City) director of Community Services, May 4, 1987.
· San Diego (County) Department of Health Services, May 4, 1987.
· San Diego (County) Department of Health Service, Division of
Mental Health Services, Central Region, May 4, 1987.
· San Francisco AIDS Advisory Committee, May 8, 1987.
· San Francisco City/County Human Rights Commission AIDS dis-
crimination specialist, May 8, 1987.
· San Francisco Homeless Service Providers' Coalition, May 7, 1987.
· San Francisco Joint Task Force on Homeless Veterans, May 8,
1987.
· St. Louis Health Care for the Homeless Coalition, May 1, 1987.
· St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, April 20, 1987.
· Tennessee Association of Primary Care Centers, Nashville, Tennes-
see, April 20, 1987.
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