Street Outreach
Three Oaks Center’s Street Outreach identifies and engages people living in unsheltered locations, such as in cars, parks, abandoned buildings, encampments, and on the streets, plays critical roles within systems for ending homelessness. Effective street outreach reaches people who might not otherwise seek assistance or come to the attention of the homelessness service system and ensures that people’s basic needs are met while supporting them along pathways toward housing stability.
Emergency Shelter
There are proven models for housing support services that aid individuals and families experiencing homelessness. With the right supportive services, coupled with appropriate housing measures, Three Oaks Center is able to meet the needs of people who are homeless. Three Oaks Center is making continuous progress towards ending homelessness in Southern Maryland through a healthy and robust system of care including meeting immediate needs (e.g., emergency shelters) and providing linkages to appropriate community resources
Three Oaks Center’s Emergency Shelters are often the first place people turn to during or after experiencing an economic or domestic crisis. Emergency shelters provide support services and short-term stabilization for individuals and families before finding appropriate housing that meets their long-term needs.
Prevention Services
Three Oaks Center provides financial assistance, counseling, and other services to prevent eligible families and individuals from being evicted, losing their homes, or becoming homeless. Our case managers work with the landlord to mediate the situation, if possible, and/or assist the participant in finding another unit.
Rapid Rehousing
Three Oaks Center’s Rapid Rehousing program has become an increasingly important tool in our responses to homelessness. The model has shown success on the individual level – helping households exit homelessness and not return to shelter. Additionally, it has helped decrease the number of people experiencing homelessness and the amount of time households spend homeless. Rapid re-housing places a priority on moving a family or individual experiencing homelessness into permanent housing as quickly as possible, ideally within 60 days of a client becoming homeless and entering a program.
Permanent Supportive Housing
Three Oaks Center’s Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is a program designed to provide housing and supportive services on a long-term basis to chronically homeless individuals and families. At least one household member must have a diagnosed disability and have been continuously homeless for one year or more. For a significant number of homeless individuals and families with physical or mental disabilities, long-term homelessness can only be addressed by providing permanent housing combined with intensive supportive services. Permanent Supportive Housing provides safe and stable housing environments with flexible and voluntary services.