MHS - Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Homeless Assistance - Crisis and Trauma Intervention

MHS
1744 Payne Avenue
Cleveland OH 44114

Phone
    216 623 6555

24/7 Crisis Hotline
    216 623 6888

TTY/TDD
    216 623 6540

The mission of MHS is to help people gain control of their lives by forging solutions that resolve mental health crises and end homelessness.

Service Statistics
Hours & Types of Service

Number of clients served

Client employment and income

Client characteristics

Outcomes
of care

How many are homeless?

Members of our professional staff provided 58,825 hours of direct service during the 2008 fiscal year that ended 30 June 2008. This total does not include the many hours of supportive services provided each day to those in our residential programs. The total represents an increase of 8.4% from the total service hours provided in the prior year.

Total hours of clinical and supportive services
provided during the 2000-2008 fiscal years.

A bar graph showing total hours of outreach, mental health, and supportive services conducted by MHS staff members during the 2000 to 2008 fiscal years.

Trends in total duration of services are shown in the figure below, a graph of the total number of hours of each of nine types of service for the fiscal years of 2001 to 2008. Hours of community support and residential support have steadily increased during these six years, as MHS has added shelter and residential programs.

Total hours of nine clinical and supportive services
provided during the 2001-2008 fiscal years.

A bar graph showing total hours of each of nine clinical and supportive services conducted by MHS staff members during the 2001 to 2008 fiscal years.

Note: Not presented here are 77 hours of alcohol- and drug-treatment services provided during the 2007 fiscal year. In January 2007, MHS earned conditional certification from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to provide a full range of treatment services for substance-use disorders.

More hours of community support services were provided than any other type of service. These services represented 34% of all service hours during the fiscal year. They were once called "case management" services, and are now called community psychiatric supportive treatment (CPST) services. They comprise a broad scope of rehabilitative and supportive activities that help those with severe mental disorders achieve and maintain health, safety, housing, autonomy, and participation in their community. An average of 55 hours of these supportive services were provided each day. Residential support and counseling services represented another 20% of all service hours, and outreach represented 16%. Most of these services are also devoted to those who are homeless and have a severe mental disorder or other disabling condition.

Crisis intervention, hotline, and referral & information services comprised 21% of all service hours. These services are available to any child or adult throughout Cuyahoga County who is experiencing a mental health crisis, usually a suicidal depression or a psychotic episode.

To learn about other MHS programs providing coordinated care
for homeless persons with disabilities, click on the links below.

Outreach	Shelter	Housing with Supportive Services
Three programs provide assertive street outreach from early morning to evening. Supportive services are also offered seven days per week.	A 135-bed shelter for homeless women and children. A 50-bed shelter for men with severe mental disorders or other disabling conditions.	Two Safe Havens, two transitional housing programs, and two permanent housing programs, all with on-site or easily accessible services. Community support services for all, including those living independently.
PATH Outreach	Women's shelter	Safe Havens & Young Adult Pgm.
Outreach & Payee	Men's shelter	Permanent housing programs
SPOT Support		Community support

Learn about client characteristics, or their employment and income.

MHS has well-established procedures for the collection, analysis, and utilization of outcome data. These data demonstrate that MHS programs have been effective in helping clients achieve meaningful goals.

Outcomes of Care
To examine the remarkable outcomes achieved by clients who have participated in MHS Homeless Assistance programs, click here.

MHS uses the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of homelessness, and the definition of severe mental disability published by the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH).

How many are homeless
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA?
Click here for recent counts and estimates.

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1744 Payne Avenue; Cleveland, Ohio 44114 U.S.A.
216-623-6555 - TTY/TDD: 216-623-6540

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