The Bridge

Residential services - The Bridge provides transitional and permanent residential services - The Bridge provides transitional and permanent supportive behavioral health housing to 1,171 single adults in three boroughs (manhattan, The bronx, and brooklyn). Individuals are housed in a combination of single-site bridge-owned buildings and scatter-site apartments rented from private landlords in The community. In addition, The Bridge operates a safe haven that provides temporary shelter. The majority of these residents are formerly homeless or are coming from acute and long-term hospitalization. All Bridge housing programs also provide supportive services to The residents.

C. clinical services - The Bridge operates an office of mental health (omh) licensed personalized recovery oriented services (pros) program, which is a psychiatric rehabilitation program. Pros supports clients through group-based psychiatric rehabilitation services in a person-centered, recovery focused modality. Pros offers a full range of employment support services, education support services, and assistance with obtaining other life role goals. The outpatient article 31mental health clinic provides psychopharmacology and medication monitoring, individual, group, and family therapy, and health monitoring for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma. All services are based on person-centered planning and best practices. The Bridge also provides psychiatric rehabilitation services through The core program in The community setting of The individual's choice and focuses on education, employment, and community inclusion. The Bridge operates an oasas-licensed (nys office of addiction supports and services) medically supervised clinic and offers part 822 chemical dependence outpatient treatment services for persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The oasas clinic also operates a nyc department of health and mental hygiene (dohmh) opioid overdose prevention program (oopp) with The goal of connecting with individuals who use opioids as well as their family members and friends to provide training and support in The use of narcan (used to reverse an overdose).

Community-based services - (1) care coordination: The Bridge is under contract with two health homes and works with approximately 900 health home enrolled members in The bronx, brooklyn, queens, and manhattan providing outreach, engagement, and ongoing care coordination. (2) assertive community treatment (act): The Bridge operates seven act teams - 3 in manhattan and 4 in The bronx - which provide intensive clinical services to adults diagnosed with serious mental illness who have struggled to engage with traditional office-based services. Three of these teams work with shelter residents and one with justice-involved individuals. (3) The Bridge operates four safe options support (sos) teams. The sos teams work with people experiencing homelessness (peh) living either on The street or in The nyc transit system. The sos teams make connections with these individuals with The goal of helping them transition either to temporary or permanent housing and to access care and treatment.