For the thousands of homeless New Yorkers who live on the city's streets, Project Renewal's comprehensive approach to moving individuals into homes and jobs often starts with the offer of food, a shower, a bed, short-term treatment for addiction and primary medical care. These "low-demand" programs meet people where they are and offer the next step in their recovery.

Our three fully outfitted medical vans provide professional primary medical care to homeless people 'where they are' - on the streets, in shelters, at soup kitchens and at drop-in centers. They are equipped with two fully operational examining rooms and staffed by a team that includes a physician, nurse practitioner, a pharmacist, a psychiatrist and driver/aide. Today, we have three vans on the street that offer preventative, urgent and HIV/AIDS services in addition to primary care. In 2011, the medical vans provided healthcare to over 3,400 homeless New Yorkers.

The MedVan was featured in an article of Chelsea Now. Read the story here.

Our Mobile Psychiatric Teams function as traveling psychiatric clinics, serving clients in the city's voluntary (privately operated) shelters and drop-in centers. The team includes a psychiatrist, a physician's assistant/nurse practitioner, a nurse, and a driver/aide and is coordinated by a psychiatric nurse. The team is equipped to evaluate and fully treat homeless mentally ill men and women - including medication monitoring - as well as consult with appropriate shelter staff.

We run a highly successful state-licensed drug and alcohol treatment clinic for clients at our residential treatment programs. Located at Third Street, the clinic provides one-on-one and group counseling to help clients rebuild their lives without drugs and alcohol and ensure they stay connected to all-important support systems once they've graduated. Clients get complete assessments, individualized plans for care, medical and psychiatric care and help with finding employment.

Often, for people in the throes of active addiction, that next step is detox, so Project Renewal created a 32-bed chemical dependency Crisis Center. There, medically-trained personnel help clients through the physically and emotionally challenging process of withdrawal.

The Detox is a non-hospital medical detox clinic for homeless men which includes medical care and counseling for long-term treatment.