 Colorectal Cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among Americans, with Black Americans having a 40% higher death rate compared to White Americans. However, if caught and treated early, there is a 90% survival rate.
Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO), a leading community-based integrated health and human service agency, broke ground Tuesday for Detroit’s first Healthy Housing Center (DHHC) at 3426 Mack Ave.
The 22,000-square-foot facility is the second and final phase of NSO’s Healthy Housing Campus, a comprehensive site with a holistic service delivery model that is part of a $22 million vision offering an innovative approach to end chronic homelessness in the city of Detroit. The DHHC will provide low-barrier emergency shelter to 56 adults, focusing on the medically at risk, and will offer health and social services for its residents and neighbors. It will offer services to help homeless individuals transition into permanent housing, a 17-bed medical respite for homeless individuals to receive continuing care post-hospitalization, a fully integrated health care clinic open to the public and other on-site wraparound services, including job readiness training. The health care clinic will be accessible to the community for primary care, behavioral health, dental services, and a pharmacy. Center is first of its kind in the state  The City of Detroit has broken ground on the second and final phase of the city’s first Healthy Housing Center (DHHC), that will offer shelter and other services to people experiencing homelessness.
Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO) and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan were among those at the ground breaking ceremony at the site, located at 3426 Mack Ave. The 22,000-square-foot facility is the second and final phase of NSO’s Healthy Housing Campus, a comprehensive site with a holistic service delivery model that is part of a $22 million vision offering an innovative approach to end chronic homelessness in the city of Detroit. Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO), a leading community-based integrated health and human service agency, broke ground Tuesday for Detroit’s first Healthy Housing Center (DHHC) at 3426 Mack Ave.
The 22,000-square-foot facility is the second and final phase of NSO’s Healthy Housing Campus, a comprehensive site with a holistic service delivery model that is part of a $22 million vision offering an innovative approach to end chronic homelessness in the city of Detroit. The DHHC will provide low-barrier emergency shelter to 56 adults, focusing on the medically at risk, and will offer health and social services for its residents and neighbors. It will offer services to help homeless individuals transition into permanent housing, a 17-bed medical respite for homeless individuals to receive continuing care post-hospitalization, a fully integrated health care clinic open to the public and other on-site wraparound services, including job readiness training. The health care clinic will be accessible to the community for primary care, behavioral health, dental services, and a pharmacy. The Neighborhood Service Organization broke ground Tuesday on the first “healthy housing center” in Detroit to serve the city’s homeless and the surrounding community. Linda Little, CEO of Neighborhood Service Organization, said construction on the Mack Avenue facility will wrap up in 18 months and the building will open soon after. In addition to 56 beds of emergency shelter, geared toward people “medically at risk,” the facility will offer 17 beds for “medical respite,” for people not ill enough to remain at a hospital, but not well enough to safely be returned to the street or a shelter, officials said.  Linda Little, CEO, Neighborhood Service Organization, announces the latest phase of the nonprofit group's $22 million Detroit Healthy Housing Campus during a groundbreaking cermony in Detroit on November 30, 2021. Max Ortiz, The Detroit News
 NSO was recently part of “Pandemic Perspectives”.
This virtual panel discussion hosted by PPE4ALL centered around our work within the communities we serve and how the pandemic may have impacted our work along with the challenges we faced and continue to battle. NSO was joined by Beans Café in Alaska. We are excited to announce that NSO recently received donations from two local bike shops for raffle prizes for NSO’s Handlebars for the Homeless fundraiser! Rick from Bikes, Blades and Boards, and Shayne from Metropolis Cycles Bike Shop & Repair have each donate a bicycle helmet that NSO will raffle off during Handlebars for the Homeless festivities. These are exciting new partnerships that will benefit the organization greatly. Thank you to Rick and Shayne.
 Detroit at Work distributed laptops to Detroit Healthy Housing Center clients that are looking to find work. NSO submitted seven clients for the program, but when Detroit a Work’s mobile computer lab arrived, they were willing to help any other clients that were interested even if they had not signed up for the program previously.
 Robert Bollinger, CEO of Bollinger Motors and NSO Donor recently visited the Clay Apartments which opened last October. NSO’s CEO Linda Little guided him on a tour of the 42-unit Permanent Supportive Housing Facility which is now home for formally homeless clients. The facility has a community room with a kitchen, computer lab, library, workout room, and laundry facility among other amenities. Clients also receive intensive case management and wraparound services to address any needs.
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