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Homeless Services

Providing Care Throughout Central Ohio

Southeast Healthcare is dedicated to keeping people off the streets. We partner with multiple organizations throughout the city that have been created to aide the homeless.

Some of the Homeless Services We Provide Include:

  • Men’s Homeless Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • PATH Homeless Outreach & Treatment Teams
  • Residential Services

Friends of the Homeless Men’s Emergency Shelter

Friends of the Homeless provides support to homeless men through emergency shelter, transitional and supportive housing programs. Since 1983, Friends of the Homeless has provided our fellow citizens who are experiencing a homeless crisis with the opportunity to re-establish themselves in housing. While we continue to assist the most vulnerable in our community, homelessness is still an issue within Franklin County.

As a program of Southeast Healthcare since 2006, Friends has retained its role in the community and maintained the mission and vision that was established in 1983.

Friends of the Homeless Mission

Friends of the Homeless is committed to leadership in providing innovative, high-quality programs, services and housing supports and referrals that enable people in central Ohio to move out of homelessness. Through collaboration, advocacy, education and our work, Friends aims to further the beliefs that:

  • Homelessness should be temporary,
  • People being served have dignity and worth, and
  • Decent, safe, affordable housing should be available for everyone

Friends of Homeless receives funding from the Community Shelter Board and its partner agencies.

How to Access Emergency Shelter
For those seeking shelter, note that there is ONLY ONE WAY to enter a shelter for single adults and families (adults with children) in Franklin County.

CALL 614-274-7000 24/7

Homeless Housing Providers

Southeast Healthcare does not offer permanent housing solutions, but we are happy to provide a few potential resources in Central Ohio which do:

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PATH - Homeless Outreach Team

PATH stands for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness. PATH is a homeless outreach team that provides follow up case management to our homeless population and those with serious mental illness within the Franklin County community in Columbus, Ohio. Our staff engage vulnerable individuals who are homeless and living in camps, on the streets and in the shelters. They work to build trusting relationships, provide assertive case management and assist with immediate tangible needs. We provide services and referrals such as case management, employment resources, housing resources, outreach, physical healthcare, psychiatric services and substance abuse treatment. We operate a mobile coach that regularly visits identified sites and locations throughout the community.

Bridge To Success

BRIDGE to SUCCESS provides a bridge for men and women who are suffering from behavioral health issues and referred from one of the four approved acute care settings (Netcare CSU, TVBH, OSU Harding, or Miles House). We combine transitional housing and supportive services to help residents gain skills that lead to permanent housing for those who would otherwise be homeless upon release from the acute care setting. Bridge to Success is not monitored 24/7 and limited supports are provided in the evenings and on the weekends. Resident Partners must be able to provide for themselves, cook, clean and manage their medications.

Resident Partners

48 Individuals (combination of 36 men and 12 women but no individual units will be co-ed)

  • All units offer kitchen appliances and access to laundry facilities
  • NO GUEST POLICY
Eligibility Criteria
  • Single Male or Female, 18 years of age or older
  • Currently residing at TVBH, OSU Harding, Netcare Crisis Stabilization Unit, Riverside Behavioral Health or Miles House (they will no longer qualify after discharge)
  • Self-caring; capable of maintaining independent living and shared living
  • No registered sex offenders. (Housing is located within 1000 feet of a school.) Those convicted of arson are generally not considered
  • Must not have current warrants
Referrals
  • Referrals come directly from Community Housing Network

FOH Community Garden

In 2009, members of the community and Friends of the Homeless created an idea that would bring community to the area.  The concept was “Growing Green”, a community garden that would give the residents of the shelter, members of the community and volunteers an opportunity to meet, work and learn about each other. Through the practice of gardening, individuals would have the opportunity to interact in a way that extended beyond the traditional role of contributor and benefactor.  It would be a place where individuals could work as equals, regardless of their past and their current housing arrangements.  Growing Green provides tangible benefits.  The garden provides food and it enhances the beauty of the neighborhood. Growing Green exists through the effort, ideas and contributions of members of the community.

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