Homeless Outreach Services
Our homeless Outreach Team is a multi-disciplinary team of Housing Case Managers, Certified Peer Recovery Specialists, Recovery Navigators and other professionals. The team provides critical survival services and engagement to adults who are experiencing severe and persistent behavioral health and co-occurring disorders in addition to homelessness.
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The team works throughout St Paul, Minneapolis parts of Dakota County. We literally meet our clients where they are.
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We prioritize services for those who are highly vulnerable, lack service connections or other support and who are unwilling or unable to engage in traditional service models.
Services
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Outreach and engagement services aimed at locating eligible individuals, building relationships, providing survival services and assessing individual needs.
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Intensive case management and stabilization services with a full range of community support and treatment options and referrals.
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Development and support of maintaining connections to critical resources such as housing, psychiatric and physical health care, financial benefits and other ancillary support services.
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Transition support to long-term behavioral health or other appropriate ongoing services.
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Specialties
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Engagement and building rapport with individuals who are difficult to reach.
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Providing services in the community, encampments, streets and shelters, including case management, housing assessments, nursing care and psychiatric services.
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Strong network of relationships with community resources and providers.
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Homeless Services are a vital resource
Since 2016, the Continuum Care Center has prioritized services to marginalized and chronically homeless people by operating the lowest-barrier services and housing options. Our Services have been a vital resource for hundreds of people experiencing homelessness who might otherwise have nowhere else to go.
Our housing case managers work with clients to help them secure and maintain housing and improve their clinical and social stability, thus enhancing their level of independence and self-sufficiency and our peer support staff and licensed counselors serves clients who may be, or are considering changing their use patterns, using substances in a safer manner, seeking medication assisted treatment (MAT), or working toward stopping use altogether. Using harm-reduction techniques and evidence-based practices, we serve each client using a low barrier, individualized, strengths-based approach.