MOBILE OUTREACH A St. Patrick Center Health Program

MOBILE OUTREACH
A St. Patrick Center Health Program
Overview
While most St. Patrick Center clients come to the Partnership Center to seek help, many
chronically homeless people remain on the streets. The mental health department employs two
full-time Mobile Outreach counselors who go out into the community in a van or on bikes to
develop relationships with people who may need our services, while respecting the right of
individuals to make their own choices.
There are no eligibility criteria for Mobile Outreach. Mobile Outreach attempts to individualize its
services to each client, and consequently, the program does not offer special services to a specific
population. Services provided by Mobile Outreach include outreach, referral to service providers,
emergency food and clothing and transportation to shelters or hospitals in an emergency. Mobile
Outreach counselors may also act as a liaison between service providers and hard-to-reach
clients.
St. Patrick Center’s Mobile Outreach Team, other agencies’ mobile outreach teams and various St.
Louis social workers meet monthly to discuss clients. These partners include Youth in Need,
Covenant House, Horizon Club (a division of DD Resources), Catholic Charities, St. John’s Mercy,
BJC, New Life Evangelic Center and The Bridge. Together, these providers discuss and evaluate
the best means to handle clients who are resistant to accessing services.
The major funding streams for Mobile Outreach come from a Missouri Department of Mental Health
PATH grant, in-kind donations and private donations.
Related Programs
Mobile Outreach clients may use the resources provided by our Shamrock Club day program,
which offers all the physical needs homeless persons may require, including a washer and dryer,
showers, hot meals, a mailing address and respite from the elements. If clients choose to enroll in
Intensive Case Management, they can access the Shamrock Club’s individual counseling, group
education, group therapy, community resources, housing support, job training opportunities, and
referrals to other St. Patrick Center programs and partners.
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stpatrickcenter .org
800 North Tucker / St. Louis, MO 63101
P: 314.802.0700 / F: 314.802.1982
At St. Patrick Center, we’re Missouri’s largest provider of
housing, employment and health opportunities for people
who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. We take
an action-based approach to service and offer nationally
recognized programs that assist more than 9,000 people
each year.
Our mission, at its core, is to help individuals and families
move from homelessness to independence in dignified,
cost-effective and permanent ways. This approach transforms
our clients as well as our entire community.
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Funding for the program comes from various sources including from the State of Missouri from
general revenue, PATH funding, and various grant funders that vary from year to year.
Providers
St. Patrick Center has many service provider partners in the building. Logan Chiropractic College
offers free services to clients. Grace Hill Health Centers, Inc. offer dental services to clients once
per month. Several times per year, clients are offered free eye care through a university-sponsored
mobile eye clinic. Clients are also offered health literacy classes with a nurse who is contracted
through Staff Link.
Program Outcomes
Two full-time counselors, using bikes or vans, developed trusting relationships with 104 people
who are homeless, mentally ill and living on the streets in fiscal year 2012. We engaged 63
individuals in agency programs and services.
Other St. Patrick Center Health Programs: Assertive Community Treatment; Casserole Program; City
Seeds Urban Farm; Shamrock Club Day Treatment Program; Shamrock Club Intensive Case
Management; Shamrock Club Women’s Night Program.
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