WHAT
Acceptance, Kindness and Concern - all guests are be treated with dignity.
What's God's love got to do with it? EVERYTHING!
We outreach and attempt to locate and maintain contact with persons who are deemed not in compliance with their social service, substance abuse treatment program and/or mental health services providers.
Locate and advise minority communities members in need of services available to them. Advocate for client in need at all levels.
We will not expect the sick to act well!
We build capacity in the community by providing a broad array of direct services and by linking the clients served with the many programs and resources available in and outside the county. This one stop shopping approach helps locate and expose an often sick and difficult population to reach to the array of programs and lifesaving services available to those in need in our region.
Ongoing needs assessment - We go into the community and identify places where persons in need of our services exist and may congregate by ourselves or with assistance from persons in similar needs. Some of the near homeless are often referred to as couch hoppers meaning going from one friend's house to another.
We encourage law enforcement agencies and others to bring those in need of our services to us as a replacement to incarceration when applicable.
BASE ON HARM REDUCTION MODEL
The Safe Harbor staff and counselor use program modalities that enable and empower clients to focus on recovery by creating and implementing strategies that often work including traditional and non-traditional problem-solving techniques. Provide the advocacy and interventions needed by our clients to access treatment and an array of existing emergency subsistence services, as well as working linkages with other service providers thereby eliminating the some of the most common reasons given for relapse.