Street Outreach
We aim to reduce Cuyahoga County’s unsheltered homeless population through relationally based, trauma-informed street outreach services and collaboration with other service providers and volunteer groups.
If you are experiencing homelessness and/or need outreach assistance, please click here.
Outreach Collaborative
Like most of our initiatives, NEOCH approaches outreach services with a communal spirit, recognizing that it takes a collective will to attend to the problems of homelessness and care for those who it impacts. With this in mind, we formed the Outreach Collaborative, which brings together outreach workers from different organizations that serve Cleveland’s homeless population. This program is meant to ensure better communication and greater coordination of resources between service providers, so as to improve care for clients experiencing homelessness.
Compassionate Care and Crisis Response
Our team specializes in helping people experiencing unsheltered homelessness access the basic resources they need to survive and, eventually, find adequate housing. NEOCH’s outreach workers serve as “first responders” to crisis homelessness situations, acting as an alternative to law enforcement and thus resisting the criminalization of homelessness. Key to this role is cultivating relationships with clients based on trust, mutuality, and individual accompaniment.
LGBTQ+, Youth, And Veterans
Homelessness has disproportionate impacts on demographic categories beyond race and ethnicity, most notable among these being within the LGBTQ+ community. Therefore, we have dedicated outreach staff trained in trauma-informed care tasked with assisting LGBTQ+ clients. We also provide outreach services to other vulnerable homeless populations, like veterans and youth.