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Today is: Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Welcome to NSONeighborhood Service Organization (NSO) was established in 1955 as a private non-profit human service agency. The mission of NSO is to compassionately reach out to people, empowering them to improve their lives. Program focuses include: mental health, youth gun-violence prevention, persons with developmental disabilities, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, problem gambling, homelessness, substance abuse, grandparents raising grand children, home-based Headstart, home ownership counseling, and community development. NSO is a partner in the Carelink and ConsumerLink Networks of the Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency. Project Helping Hands Reaches Out and Helps Homeless in Streets of DetroitNeighborhood Service Organization, along with the Detroit Police Department; the City of Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion's Bureau of Substance Abuse, Prevention, Treatment and Recovery and the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency have teamed up to develop an innovative, community-based program for assisting the homeless in Detroit's central business district. Project Helping Hands is a team of dedicated, trained case managers, mental health and substance abuse providers and para-professionals who respond to calls and are equipped to provide the homeless with immediate screening and triage on the street. Find out more about Project Helping Hands Here » See Project Helping Hands in Action Here » |
