Project Safety Net Ny

Health homes serve medicaid individuals whose chronic conditions include, but are not limited to, serious illness, hiv/aids, and other illnesses that persist over a period of time and oversight from a coordinated health care delivery system in addition to challenging health-care issues. Most of our clients have social service needs requiring advocacy and referrals. Our team manages both their clinical and social determinants of health, such as homelessness, food insecurity, and entitlements, to improve their outcomes. The objectives of the program are to reduce avoidable and preventable inpatient stays, reduce avoidable emergency department visits, improve linkage to primary care and specialty clinicians, improve the health outcomes for person with mental illness and/or substance use disorders, etc.

Offering free and confidential testing, the department of community engagement and grant programs provides mobile outreach to members of the community who are at risk for hiv, hcv, other sexually transmitted infections, and substance use disorder. Emphasis is placed on specific populations which are considered high risk (e.g., young men of color who have sex with men and other underserved populations who struggle with poverty, mental health, and stigma). Currently, Project Safety Net new york, Inc. has a federally funded grant program that serves the community. Substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa), funds both an intervention and a treatment program.