- WELCOME -

Welcome to Liberty Community Services, a supportive housing and services provider offering dignity, compassion and respect to Connecticut's residents confronting homelessness and disability. With administrative offices in New Haven and residential programs serving the entire region, Liberty's proven successful model of housing with support services helps change the lives of hundreds of people in need every year.

We invite you to contact us if you are in need of assistance or services. Please let us know if you would like to get involved or volunteer in Liberty's life-saving work. Or, please consider making a donation if you would like to support Liberty's mission to help those in need.

Message from the Executive Director

When I became the Executive Director of Liberty Community Services over 5 years ago, someone described the organization to me as "one of the most complex and important agencies in New Haven." After five years, I can attest to that statement. For almost twenty-five years, Liberty has been providing services and housing to people in New Haven with significant challenges of homelessness or of maintaining housing. We started as the Connecticut AIDS Residence Program ("CARP") when there were no housing options for people living with AIDS. Since that time, we have expanded our services, but our core mission of providing housing and services for people with medical and mental health needs still remains.

Liberty provides permanent housing and supports to over 100 men and women in our programs, with 65 of these people living in independent apartments. In addition, we have a Day Program for people living in shelters or on the street and an outreach program for people who are homeless and in need of treatment and a Sunday brunch in the winter months. The program facts are important but they become real when you hear the voices of the people who receive the services. One woman said "When I was on the streets, I didn't care whether I lived or died. I can't describe the feeling the day I entered my own apartment".

We are coming through a period of economic hardship and a discussion in our country as to the role government needs to play in our communities. Liberty has always faced obstacles in our work but also found support in the New Haven community where we look after those who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless who have had difficult lives. You can be part of our effort to make a better community, one where we can everybody has housing no matter their circumstances, by donating, volunteering, advocating, voting, and supporting the work we do to help those in our community who are in need.

Sincerely,

John Bradley
Executive Director