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The Health Care for the Homeless Program (HCH)/ Mobile Community Health Team Project (MCHTP) is a “clinic without walls” which provides onsite primary medical care, nursing case management, addiction counseling and health education to individuals and families who are homeless, at shelters and transitional housing programs in Manchester. Outreach medicine is central to HCH philosophy and practice. The clinical team consists of one physician, two nurse practitioners, two nurses one addiction counselor and a program assistant. The clinic is in session every weekday morning at New Horizons shelter; and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at Families in Transition housing program. The HCH team collaborates with many local health providers and human service agencies in order to increase access to health care for more than 1,000 individuals and family members who are currently struggling with homelessness in Manchester.

HCH Program Objectives Are:

• To ensure that homeless people and families have access to the medical, dental, mental health, addiction and eye care that’s critical to their well-being.
• To provide case management insuring that individuals and families understand how to access care and navigate through complicated systems of health and human service agencies.
• To promote access to housing and a living wage through pre-vocational training, entitlement enrollment assistance and employment counseling.
• To create a system of health care for homeless people recognizing that housing is essential and paramount to sustain health and long-term recovery.
  

The project’s operative definition of "homelessness" includes people who have no regular nor adequate sleeping accommodations; those in precarious situations, fleeing domestic violence and unable to return to their residences; persons residing in transitional housing or temporary accommodations; and those sleeping in places neither intended nor designed for human habitation.

For more information, please contact Project Director Marianne Savarese at 603.663.8716 or send an email to msavarese@cmc-nh.org.