Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter

Residence program: ncs provides supportive housing, which pairs affordable housing with comprehensive on-site supportive services. This evidence-based approach improves housing stability, particularly for chronically homeless individuals, as well as employment status and mental and physical health. Ncs operates a 65-unit permanent supportive residence in manhattan for chronically homeless single adults and a 46-unit residence in the bronx that provides supportive housing to young adults who are homeless or have aged out of foster care. In addition, ncs now operates ncs scholars, a program in long island city, queens, that provides housing and on-site supportive services for up to 29 college students who are homeless or unstably housed while pursuing their degrees.

Vocational, educational, and employment program: ncs' options is an educational and vocational program that provides counseling, support and scholarships for clients pursuing education and work. Clients are primarily drawn from louis nine house and ncs scholars, with others referred from the ncs residence and chance for change as well as other community partners.

Substance use treatment: ncs operates chance for change (cfc), a new york state-licensed outpatient substance use treatment program that is specifically designed for homeless adults. Cfc targets the psychiatric symptoms that co-occur within the chronically homeless adult population, which has historically had difficulty succeeding in traditional substance use treatment programs. In fy 23 chance for changes served 47 clients. Cfc clients have also demonstrated improvements in housing status, become better able to seek and maintain Shelter engage in the housing process.