Capital Region Coalition to End Homelessness, Rensselaer County
AIDS Council of Northeaster New York - www.aidscouncil.org - The AIDS Council provides comprehensive support services to more than 600 persons living with HIV/AIDS and more than 500 family members each year. We provide direct financial, food, housing, counseling, and transportation assistance to improve stability in client lives.
Commission on Economic Opportunity, Inc. - www.ceo-cap.org - (518)272-6012 - CEO is working to prevent homelessness throughout the Capital Region through its Supplemental Homeless Intervention Program (SHIP) where we work with eligible families to ease the threat of eviction; prevent utility shutoffs; provide help and support in obtaining and keeping adequate employment; assist with child care services’ provide education and counseling for family income budgeting; obtain counseling, resolve transportation issues and secure housing rehabilitation and energy reduction services.
Catholic Charities/St. Peter’s Residence - www.cchoalbany.org - (518)273-3291 - St. Peter’s Residence in Troy, a single room occupancy (SRO) building endeavors to create a community, not only where people live, but where they find "family".
Joseph’s House Inn and Shelter - www.josephshousetroy.org - (518)272-2544 Shelter Coordinator: Shelly Chapin - Joseph’s House & Shelter provides emergency and permanent supported housing to homeless single adults and families with children. Guests in our shelter receive non-judgmental support and advocacy, housing placement and other needed services, meals and medical care. The agency also provides street outreach and ongoing resettlement support services to those who have experienced homelessness.
Legal Aid Society of Northeaster New York - www.lasnny.org - The Legal Aid Society of Northeaster New York provides effective, free civil legal services and education to and advocacy for people with low income or other barriers to accessing the legal system. We secure basic needs, protect and preserve legal rights, provide equal access to justice and seek fairness and dignity for our clients.
The Roarke Center - rkecenter@yahoo.com - (518)272-8351 - Roarke Center offers emergency assistance information and referral and advocacy for homeless singles and families.
St. Paul’s Center - www.stpaulscenter.com - St. Paul’s Center is a homeless shelter for mothers and their children. We offer shelter and client advocacy to the families we serve with an emphasis on empowering the individual.
Troy Area United Ministries - www.taum.org - The Furniture Program of Troy Area United Ministries provides good quality, used, essential furniture, including beds, dressers, tables and chairs, and sofas free of charge to recently homeless families, women and dependent children fleeing domestic violence and those at-risk of homelessness. The program helps families obtain or maintain custody of their children by providing DSS mandated essential furniture.
Unity House of Troy - www.unityhouseny.org - Unity House of Troy, Inc. provides homelessness prevention and intervention to individuals and families who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. We offer emergency shelter, transitional and permanent supported housing for victims of domestic violence as well as permanent supported housing for individuals for living with HIV/AIDS, mental illness and/or chemical dependency.
YWCA of the Greater Capital Region - www.YWCA-GCR.org - (518)274-7100 - The YWCA of the Greater Capital Region has been meeting the needs of women since its founding in 1883. At that time our primary focus was to provide safe affordable housing to young women moving into the area from rural communities in order to secure employment. And although the needs of the women we serve have changed greatly since then, our commitment to addressing women’s needs has never faltered. Today we are the area’s largest provider of supportive housing for women and their children. Women come to the YWCA for a variety of reasons and from a variety of situations. We provide safe and affordable, supportive housing in our downtown Troy building and in a number of apartment that we rent throughout the community. Our building has 76 single-room occupancy units, 14 transitional housing units for chronically-homeless women and their children, and four family apartments. Currently we rent seven off-site community apartments. At any given time we have 25-40 women on our housing waiting list. In any given year we serve approximately 300 women and children.