Noted executive and philanthropist Vivian Pickard is one of the area’s most accomplished businesswomen who has been widely recognized for her dedication to serving others. As one of NSO’s newest Board Members, Pickard brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role. 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
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As a Good Down There Ambassador, NSO is distributing screening kits and educational materials. Kit distribution focuses on African American/Black people, 45 years of age or older. 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. The Race is over but the cause is not. We are still raising funds to meet our goal until the end of September. Any donation $35 or over will receive a shirt. Donate at https://donate.nso-mi.org/campaigns/18251-2021-virtual-handlebars-for-the-homeless-feeding-the-homeless
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