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Brooklyn Gardens provides short-term, transitional, and permanent housing for 180 formerly homeless New Yorkers. Each building opens into a common courtyard with benches, chess tables, and gardens, encouraging social interaction and allowing residents to develop a real community. Case management and therapeutic, educational, and recreational services are provided, along with apartment referral, independent living training, parenting skills training, health care, and substance abuse counseling. The duration and intensity of service depends upon the program. There are three programs within this facility:

Arbor Inn is Tier II short term housing for 44 mothers, each with one child up to the age of 8. The program helps residents develop the independent living skills necessary to obtain and successfully maintain an apartment of their own. We offer a secure environment were the formerly homeless women begin to stabilize their lives, learn to use community resources, obtain quality health care for themselves and their children and develop job skills. Residents receive assistances from a multi-disciplinary team that include case managers, child care specialists, vocational trainers and nursing specialists. Families generally stay for three to six months. In 2004, Arbor Inn was the third highest ranked program in the City by the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), out of 134 programs. Referrals to Arbor Inn come from HERO Unit of the Department of Homeless Services (formerly part of HRA). If HERO cannot fill the vacancy, a referral will be taken from a local community organization.
Eligible applicants are:
* Homeless women with one child up to the age of eight;
* No current drug or alcohol problem unless involved in a rehabilitation program;
* Not dangerous to self or others;
* No contagious medical condition;
* No severe medical or physical condition that prohibits climbing stairs or carrying packages above the first floor;
* Preference will be given to families indigenous to Brooklyn and to the Ft. Greene area specifically.
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Ivy House is an 18-bed transitional community residence, licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) to serve single adults who are homeless as defined by the terms of the NY/NY Agreement. Residents have a private room and share a lounge, shower and restroom with other residents on their floor. Meals are prepared on the premises. Ivy House offers rehabilitation services such as medication management, symptom management, daily living skills training, self-advocacy, substance abuse services, parenting training, health services, community integration, counseling, and socialization skills are available to residents.
Eligible applicants:
* Are 18 years of age or older;
* Have a primary Axis I diagnosis such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression, and either receives SSI or SSD due to mental illness, or has an extended impairment in functioning due to mental illness, or relies on psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and supports;
* Are documented homeless individuals as defined by the NYC Dept. of Homeless Services (DHS) under the terms of the NYNY agreement, and have an approved HRA 2005 form and letter officially registering her/him as NYNY eligible;
* Demonstrate the ability to live on their own by maintaining psychiatric stability, managing medication independently, being financially responsible and having shown a commitment to sobriety;
* Have a current psychosocial assessment completed (conducted within the last 90 days);
* Have a mental status evaluation and a physical examination completed (conducted within the last 30 days);
* Have documentation verifying current income;
* Have copies of appropriate identification.
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Oak Hall is a single-room-occupancy (SRO) facility serving 74 low-income men and women who have been homeless or are at high risk of homelessness, the majority of whom have a chronic mental illness and/or a history of substance abuse. The program is funded through contracts with DHS and the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and created through the NY State Housing Trust Fund. Oak Hall offers permanent housing and a range of services to formerly homeless individuals who may be mentally ill and/or have a history of substance abuse. Services include case management, vocational training, independent living skills training, recreation, socialization, mental health care, medical care and substance abuse counseling.
Referrals to Oak Hall predominantly come from shelter providers. However, any agency which has contact with homeless adults may make referrals to our program. A portion of Oak Hall's rooms are reserved for homeless adults with chronic mental illnesses.
Eligibility requirements are:
* Documented homeless man or woman;
* 25 years of age or older;
* Able to perform activities of living independently;
* No current substance abuse;
* Able to live cooperatively in an integrated community.
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