Care For the Homeless

Care for the Homeless teamed up with actress Debra Messing, Curél®  skincare and Direct Relief to provide 500 personal care packs filled with basic hygiene supplies and skincare products to help homeless families in need at our health fair Tuesday in East Harlem. Award-winning actress Debra Messing delivers care packages to homeless  families at a Care for the Homeless Health Fair in Harlem. Debra Messing visits distributes care packages to homeless families. Curél® skincare sponsored the initiative to offer comfort to some of the most vulnerable women and children of New York City. Direct Relief, a generous supporter of Care for the Homeless since the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helped launch our new Mobile Health Clinic, which allows us to deliver medical care to homeless people in need on a regular basis and also boosts our capacity to respond to future emergencies.  The assistance comes at a critical time. "Homelessness is going down nationwi...

The map at Care for the Homeless is about to change. Through a partnership with The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Care for the Homeless is giving new life to a Mobile Health Clinic, set to launch later this summer.  This program addresses two distinct and time-sensitive problems in NYC: meeting the health needs of homeless people and the need for greater disaster preparedness. Thanks to a generous award from Direct Relief , the required renovations on the Care for the Homeless Mobile Health Clinic were completed ahead of schedule.   The Mobile Health Clinic is a cost-effective approach to disaster preparedness—it’s not waiting in storage when catastrophe strikes.  And, according to Executive Director Bobby Watts: “Who better to assist in a disaster than Care for the Homeless? Our everyday work, in many ways, resembles disaster treatment. We frequently serve patients who arrive in personal crisis, without identification or medical records. We’re grateful to Di...

The Mobile Health Clinic is almost ready for its red carpet debut at next week's Health, Care and Hope Gala .  Thanks to the generous support of Direct Relief and the contributions of so many incredible donors like you, the program launches this summer. We're offering a sneak peak tour at this year's Gala.  The Mobile Health Clinic helps Care for the Homeless grow in three ways:  Program Expansion  - reaching over 4,000 new patients in the first five years Emergency Preparedness  - increasing our capacity to join first responders in an emergency Innovative Services  - reaching multiple locations every week, parking near busy shelters and soup kitchens where there is no space to build a clinic on site. "The hallmark of a mobile health program is how nimbly it can respond. The Mobile Clinic is an efficient, cost-effective way to respond to emergencies, ensuring that equipment is not waiting in storage whe...