Resources

FOOD AND FOOD RELATED-ALL BOROS

FOOD BANKS- by ZIP: www.foodbanknyc.org/get-help

(Food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers)

FOOD RESOURCES-Harlem Specific: www.foodbanknyc.org/community-kitchen

SNAP Assistance (Food stamps): www.foodbanknyc.org/snap-assistance

HOUSING RESOURCES

HIV RESOURCE-HASA: Web Address: www1.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/hiv-aids-services.page

Phone Service Line (9am-5pm): 212-971-0626 (or for TTY machine: 212-971-2731)

The HIV/AIDS Services Administration’s (HASA) mission is to expedite access to essential benefits and social services needed by persons living with AIDS or clinical symptomatic HIV illness and their families (ASSIST with INCOME, RENT & MEDICAID access); also, “Exception to Policy ONE TIME ASSISTANCE”)

ALL PERSONS-NYC HOUSING CONNECT-FIND AND APPLY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html#current-projects

(Application links by Borough, including Mitchell-Lama, HPD and HPC )

NYCHA-NYC HOUSING
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/eligibility/apply.page

NYC Housing applications, priority based on info-receipt mailed in 2 weeks.

BISSELL CENTRE OUTREACH TEAM

The sole purpose of the Outreach Housing Team is to locate, engage, and house people who are homeless. Temporary child care also available (under 6 years old).

Phone: 780.423.2285 ext. 306 Email: https://bissellcentre.org/programs/individual/outreach-housing-team/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZfLBRCzARIsAH3wMKrW853vM_fB3PxO0znduMVTmTSLacE1w8-ujya8YHjRzQfm7kWg-boaAohYEALw_wcB

HOMELESS YOUTH

Covenant House-461 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001 | 800-388-3888 NYC: (212) 613-0300
https://www.covenanthouse.org/get-help-homelessness
OPEN 24 Hrs.

NYC RESCUE MISSION
https://nycrescue.org/

PHONE: (212) 226-6214 OPEN 24 Hrs.

90 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013

The New York City Rescue Mission exists to provide help and hope to the hungry, hurting and homeless men and women in New York City. We strive for the holistic health of those we serve through a wide range of services and programs including emergency shelter, food, social services, medical & more.

At full capacity, we sleep approximately 160 men and 30 women in dormitories on three separate floors of our building. Before resting comfortably in bed for the night, each guest is served a delicious dinner, a hot shower.

Services and Programs Hours

-Overnight Shelter Intake: 3 to 5 pm every day

-Breakfast: 6:30 to 7 am every day

-Clothing Distribution: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30 to 4 pm

-Dinner: 5 to 6:30 pm every day

-SNAP and Medicaid Enrollment: Tuesdays 3 to 6 pm

-Gospel Chapel Service: Monday through Friday 7 to 8 pm

SHELTER INTAKE CENTERS

Adult Men

30th Street: 400-430 East 30th St./1st Ave., Manhattan

(Subway: 6 to 28th St.)

Adult Women

-Franklin Shelter: 1122 Franklin Ave., Bronx

(Subway: 2/5 to 149th St., then #55 bus to 166th St. &

3rd Ave. or the #21 bus to 166th St. & Boston Road)

-HELP Women’s Center: 116 Williams Ave., Brooklyn

Subway: C to Liberty Ave.

Adult Families with no children under21 years old

Adult Family Intake Center (AFIC):

400-430 East 29th St., Manhattan

(Subway: 6 to 28th St.)

Families with children under 21 AND Pregnant Women

Prevention Assistance and Temporary

Housing Office (PATH):

151 East 151st St., Bronx

(Subway: 2, 4 or 5 to 149th St. – Grand Concourse)

24-HOUR DROP-IN CENTERS FOR ADULTS

Mainchance

120 East 32nd St. in East Midtown; Phone: (212) 883-0680

(Subway: 6 to 33rd St.)

The Living Room

800 Barretto St., Bronx; Phone: (718) 893-3606

The only drop-in center in the Bronx!

(Subway: 6 to Hunts Point Ave.)

Olivieri Center

257 West 30th St. near Penn Station; Phone: (212) 947-3211

(Subway: 1/2/3/A/C/E to 34th St. – Penn Station)

The Gathering Place

2402 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn; T: (718) 385-8726

(Subway: A to Broadway Junction)

Program Summary: The Gathering Place Drop-in Center serves homeless men and women, 18 and older, 24 hours per day, seven days a week, year round. The center provides a safe, sanitary and stable alternative to the street, using an individualized and flexible approach to serve the hard-to-reach street homeless population that refuses the city shelter system.

Project Hospitality

25 Central Ave. in Staten Island

Subway: No subway service

MENTAL HEALTH

SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) (TTY: 1-800-799-4889} www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

NYC MOBILE MENTAL HEALTH TEAM: To request a team, call (888) NYC-WELL (888-692-9355).

You can request help from a mobile crisis team if you are concerned about a family member, friend, or acquaintance who is experiencing (or at risk of) a psychological crisis. You can also request a team for yourself.

BRONX PSYCHIATRIC CENTER

Address: 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, NY 10461 Phone: (718) 931-0600

Bronx Psychiatric Center provides a continuum of inpatient, outpatient and related psychiatric services with inpatient hospitalization at the main campus. There are two outpatient sites in the borough of the Bronx.

LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH ACTION CENTERS: The following Action Centers are now open Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM, and Saturdays from 8 AM to 4 PM:

• East Harlem Neighborhood Health Action Center, 158 East 115th Street, Manhattan

• Tremont Neighborhood Health Action Center, 1826 Arthur Avenue, Bronx

• Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center, 259 Bristol Street, Brooklyn

ADDICTION RESOURCES

DETOX-RESIDENTIAL-OUTPATIENT (and DUI): Argus Community, Inc., 1-718-401-5700

AA, NA Meeting Locator (and related)-ALL STATES: www.addictionrecoveryguide.org/resources/recovery/other_programs

(Services for the deal included)

ALL TREATMENT BY ZIP/LOCATION: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/

1-800-662-HELP (4357)

1-800-487-4889 (TTY)

GENERAL SUBSTANCE USE INFORMATION: www.addictionrecoveryguide.org/resources/recovery/other_programs