Friendship Service Center Inc

Interim Housing: Our 37-bed Emergency Shelter for individual adults and families with children, and our Transitional Living Program for 10 homeless youth (ages 18-24), are located in our Virginia C. Davis Building. Since September 2023, we also have opened 4 respite beds for individual adults experiencing homelessness that are frequent users of Hospital of Central CT services. We served 124 people from 99 households through our Emergency Shelter program; 44 youth through our Transitional Living program; and 28 people in our medical respite program in FY25.

Hope Connection Center: Hope Connection Center is a drop-in center for people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness in Central CT at 61 Arch St, New Britain. The project is a community partnership with a number of agencies in the region to offer leveraged services like financial literacy, substance use recovery support, mental health, and employment, supplementing the resources HCC offers, such as showers and laundry. We served 710 people from 672 households in FY25 through this program.

SOAR: SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) aims to increase access to the disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for eligible adults who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of experiencing homelessness and have a mental illness and/or a substance use disorder. We served 29 people from 29 households in FY25 through this program.