Project Lazarus

Project Lazarus provides transitional housing and supportive services to individuals living with hiv to ensure access to health care, increase medication education and adherence, address mental health and substance use disorders, promote a healthy diet and lifestyle, connect with community resources and access available benefits, including the opportunity to secure permanent housing. Project Lazarus provides supportive services in the areas of wellness and substance abuse, as well as housing case management for people living with hiv who are either homeless or at-risk for homelessness. Project Lazarus' clinical program is designed to address issues around substance use and addiction, mental and physcial health, medication management, stigma, and homelessness. Project Lazarus provides the following services to its participants: individual and group therapies, substance use disorder counseling, health education, housing case management, three nutritious meals per day, support for activities of daily living, transportation to doctor's appointments, work readiness training, and a safe space to call home. The goal of the Project Lazarus program is for participants to obtain and maintain housing so that they can lead safe, independent, and healthy lives. Residents may stay at proejct Lazarus for up to 2 years. The number of residents served through july 1, 2021 to june 30, 2022 was 35.