Shelter Plus Care

Shelter Plus Care provides rental assistance certificates to homeless individuals, living in the streets, shelter, or transitional housing for homeless individuals diagnosed with a serious mental illness, serious mental illness andco-occurring substance abuse, substance abuse, and/or AIDS, and their families. The program is funded by the U.S. Department ofHousing and Urban Development through the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. It is coordinated locally by the Community Services Network, Connecticut Mental Health Center.

The New Haven Shelter Plus Care program has 126 scattered site certificates, with an array of support services (e.g., including clinical, social rehabilitation, substance abuse, and vocational rehabilitation) which is made available to tenants by several local agencies.

There are 8 Sponsor-based, site specific 2 bedroom certificates for families who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. New Haven Home Recovery provides case management services to those participants.

Cedar Hill Apartments has thirteen site specific efficiency sized subsidies for individuals who are dually diagnosed with serious mental illness and chronic substance abuse.

Thirty-two scattered site certificate for families and individuals who agreed to case management services provided by Columbus House, New Haven Home Recovery, Also- Cornerstone, Coordinating Council for Children in Crisis, The Connection, and/or Liberty Community Services.

Thirteen Sponsor-based rental assistance certificates for individuals with intensive case management through the Open Door Alliance PILOTS initiative, eleven of those certificates are located at Liberty Community Services’ Safehaven building, while the others are scattered site.

Shelter Plus Care has recently been awarded four scattered site certificates, which have intensive case management services funded through DMHAS’ Next Steps Initiative. These certificates are in collaboration with Columbus House and the Connecticut Mental Health Center’s Outreach and Engagement Project.

Contact:
Leigh Anne Shields, Director: (203)-764-6330
Olivia Johnson, Housing Specialist: (203)-764-6332
Kameo Parks: (203)-764-6336
Fax: (203)-764-6337

New Haven Shelter Plus Care
319 Peck Street
Building #1
New Haven, CT 06513