If you need assistance, please contact the Department of Public Health. We follow a low-barrier housing-first clinically driven approach to guide clients towards health and safety.
- A client is not a statistic; a case file is not who that person is.
- We provide HIV, Hepatitis C, and STI testing and counseling; a healthy meals program; syringe and naloxone distribution; and an array of education, navigation, and support services.
- “Sometimes I feel so happy that my heart — I feel like I’m having like a big, good pain in my heart,” she said.
- It’s why the 46-year-old loves her job, working as a harm reduction specialist with individuals experiencing addiction, homelessness, and mental health issues in the area of Mass. and Cass in Boston.
- Our housing stabilization services, including emergency shelter, permanent housing, and case management, move people off the street as quickly as possible, with as few barriers as possible.
It’s a “housing first” approach that includes stabilization services, emergency shelter, transitional and permanent housing, and case management. This program provides clinically appropriate, high quality, methadone treatment for opiate-addicted injection drug users, giving them the chance to begin and continue a successful recovery. Together with the Community Substance Abuse Center, the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital is able to offer primary care services and work to stop the spread of HIV among people with substance use disorder.