Care For the Homeless

Change a Life Today Access to health care is under attack in our country. Please help us to expand our work serving homeless New Yorkers and continue to make health care accessible to those who desperately need it. We ask you today to consider making a donation, of any amount, to support the fight against homelessness. Here's how you can make a difference this holiday season. Photo cred: Steve Latimer $10 Provides a family experiencing homelessness with a personal care kit. Restore a touch of dignity to a homeless family $27.50 Provides a round-trip metro card to five patients experiencing homelessness. Help a homeless patient get to their doctor   $100 Provides a flu shot to four homeless children or a family of four (a gift of $50 pays for two flu shots). Keep homeless children and families healthy

This young lady couldn’t stop giggling during her health check-up by Sophie As a Nurse Practitioner, Sophie cares for homeless individuals in New York City in her own special way. She started working at Care for the Homeless only two months after graduating from Yale University with her Master’s Degree in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Sophie is originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her bachelor’s from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California in 2013 and moved to New York City in 2014 when she started her studies at Yale. Sophie says her mentors at Yale referred her to Care for the Homeless (CFH), where she now practices medicine at two CFH health centers, one in Queens and the other in the Bronx. She enjoys working at CFH because she is always “learning from [her] patients.” She says coming from Oregon to living in New York and working at CFH, she learned a lot about the challenges the city brings and the “incredible resilience” that is needed to live i