Liberty Community Services offers a variety of programs to meet the needs of each individual who comes to us for help. From comprehensive residential programs, to outreach and referral services that help individuals navigate our community’s system of care, Liberty offers a new beginning to those facing homelessness, chronic illness, addiction or mental illness.LIBERTY SAFE HAVEN
A Place To Live While Restoring a Life
Liberty Safe Haven is a first-of-its kind facility in Connecticut, providing a specialized permanent residence for individuals in our community who have experienced repeated or extended periods of homelessness. Liberty Safe Haven is built on the foundation that no one is beyond the capacity to have a full life, but first we need the security of a place to call home.
Liberty Safe Haven is not a shelter or a temporary refuge. It is a permanent, secure and supportive foundation for people who want to rebuild their lives. Residents come at their own free will, stay as long as they want, and pay rent. Liberty provides intensive support services and access to a variety of treatment methods to help them define their own paths to embracing health and recovery. What we seek is to build the trust of our residents. What we offer is a new beginning.
DAY PROGRAM
The Day Program located at Liberty Safe Haven offers a place for homeless individuals to spend their day and gain access to important support services. Open to individuals who are homeless and confronting chronic illness, mental illness or addiction, the Day Program fills a critical need for many people in our community.
The services offered include counseling, referral to community resources, help with job searches, laundry room access, shower and bath facilities, and transportation to medical appointments. A community room is available, with television, a library, meals and coffee.
The program also offers an on-site computer center, with classes for all levels of experience. Users are taught computer skills, both for personal use and to give them knowledge and experience that will help them in today's job market. Participants also have telephone access, and are given individual voice mail accounts. This combination of computer access, phone access, voice mail and email are important to finding a job or making medical appointments, and they help participants to remain connected with the community.
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS
For two decades, Liberty’s residential programs have offered a new beginning to those facing homelessness, chronic illness or addiction by providing a stable place to live, along with support services that foster physical and psychological health. For those who have had setbacks or are experiencing homelessness, this combination of stability and care can bring about life-saving changes.
Both the Transitional Living Program (TLP) and Supportive Living Program (SLP) offer long-term supportive housing in a homelike setting. Residents occupy shared apartments in renovated Victorian homes in a residential New Haven neighborhood, with support services such as crisis intervention, counseling, living skills instruction and vocational referral available to promote health, self-sufficiency and community.
The Independent Living Program (ILP) and Open Door Alliance (ODA) are innovative programs that enable individuals with chronic illness or mental illness, who are at risk of homelessness, to remain part of the community, in their own home, while receiving the critical services they need to live as independently as possible. Both programs help maintain stable housing with rental subsidies that are combined with critical supports such as counseling, case management, and self-sufficiency and vocational development.
The Independent Living Program enables individuals living with chronic illness such as HIV/AIDS to maintain stable housing while receiving services that support health and hope. The Open Door Alliance helps individuals confronting mental illness and addiction to live independently while having access to services that promote stability, recovery and community.
ADMISSIONS & RESOURCES
Liberty’s Office of Admissions & Resources manages over 2,700 calls annually, providing information about programs, resources and services available throughout the community to individuals in need, agencies and community organizations. The Outreach Department addresses each individual by providing assessments of need on an individual basis, then making comprehensive referrals to all appropriate services, both through Liberty and other community resources.
This valuable community resource ensures that each individual contacting us, or an agency calling on their behalf, receives the accurate and timely information, referral or services that they need, and that community resources are conserved because they are accessed appropriately.
For more information, contact the Office of Admissions & Resources at: (203) 495-1765.
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