Revive Center For Housing And Healing

Supportive and affordable housing: cressey house offers 28 units of permanent supportive housing. Single men, women and their children live in cressey house which serves chronically homeless individuals with disabilities and their children. Disabilities include mental health and substance use disorders, chronic health conditions, hiv/aids, and developmental and physical disabilities. Cressey house offers low barriers to admission, goal driven supportive services and persistent engagement to assist tenants in housing retention, improved health, increased income and improved quality of life. As a member of chicago's continuum of care, prospective tenants are referred to cressey house by the chicago coordinated entry system. Revive also offers 20 additional units of permanent supportive housing, scattered throughout the city of chicago, to individuals who are currently unhoused or who have recently been unhoused. Revive provides leasing assistance and holistic supportive services including case management and occupational therapy. Many of the tenants in these units used to live in homeless encampments.

Street outreach and engagement: this program is dedicated to caring for the needs of chicago's unhoused where they sleep. Revive's outreach team serves four main encampments on chicago's near west side and participates in street outreach runs with various chapters of chicago street medicine. Revive's outreach team is on the street nearly every day / night of the week. Revive outreach team included a clinical case manager, housing navigator, occupational therapist, and peer navigators, all of whom know the encampments well. Once homeless themselves, the peer navigators bring a unique perspective to their work, offering resources like food and water, friendship and hope for a better life. Their experience helps them connect with the individuals in the encampments, fostering conversations that establish human connection and build trust and relationship.