Next Step Home

Next Step Home provides supportive services in up to 40 scattered site apartments in the City of Fall River to disabled homeless and chronic homeless individuals and families.

• Housing Search and placement
• Advocacy with landlord/tenant resolution
• Subsidized rental assistance (tenant rental portion 30% of income)
• Comprehensive case management
• Crisis intervention
• Psycho-educational groups
• Relapse prevention groups
• Residential substance abuse treatment access
• Outpatient substance abuse treatment access
• Coordination of emergency and long term psychiatric care
• Specialty services designed for those living with substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, mental health, and homelessness
• Referrals to community-based collateral services, educational opportunities, medical care, domestic violence and other forms of supportive services

508-674-2788 ext.113

•18 years of age or older
• Chronic homeless in the City of Fall River
• Diagnosed with co-occurring (substance abuse and mental illness), HIV/AIDS, chronic substance abuse, or extensive histories of mental health disorders and domestic violence
• Willing to authorize a CORI check, CORI report must be without warrants
• Medically and psychologically stabilized

• United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Fall River Community Development Agency
• Private Contributions