Company Profile
Project Renewal
Company Overview
Project Renewal’s mission is to end the cycle of homelessness by empowering men, women and children to renew their lives with health, homes and jobs.
Our housing program includes a variety of living options based on the needs and capacities of individual clients. We have a number of emergency shelters as well as transitional homes and permanent, community-based apartments. Five of these residences, along with one shelter, host our Occupational Therapy Program, which provides support services and essential life-skills training for adults with mental illness.
Our MedVan, first launched in 1986, delivers professional healthcare to homeless men and women where they live, on the streets and in shelters. Now comprising a fleet of four vans, our mobile medical program delivers such diverse forms of healthcare as HIV testing, smoking cessation, breast health screening, and tuberculosis screening. Our Third Street Men’s Shelter, Fort Washington Men’s Shelter, and New Providence Women’s Shelter all contain primary care clinics. We also provide detox and addiction recovery services, and on-site psychiatric, dental and optometry services.
Our Workforce Development Program provides integrated education, vocational training, and job placement services to individuals facing significant barriers to employment, such as chronic substance abuse, low educational attainment, a lack of marketable job skills, and mental and physical disabilities.
Through comprehensive, wraparound social services, Project Renewal addresses the needs of more than 15,000 clients per year. We meet the most vulnerable New Yorkers where they are and provide them with the tools they need to buttress their capacity to live independently.
Company History
Project Renewal began in 1967 as a 48-bed voluntary alcohol detoxification program at a time when arrest and incarceration were society’s most common responses to “public inebriation” of the homeless. Our program soon emerged as the nation’s first successful remedy for this ongoing social problem. Since then, our goal has remained the same: to respond to New York City’s homelessness crisis with creative, comprehensive, sympathetic answers. We provide our clients with access to quality health care, stable housing, and the resources necessary to secure employment.