We at the South Central Behavioral Health Network (SCBHN) use our Neighbor to Neighbor funds to help people living in New Haven’s emergency shelters to find their way to a new life away from drugs and crises. We use your money to move people out of the shelters and into sober houses, where they can go to meetings, seek work and support each other 

We have a gentlemen who has been homeless for at least 3 years and through all of his obstacles he managed to stay clean and sober.  Though temptation was there for him to revert back to his old ways he chose to go in another direction.  He began seeking employment.  Having no money to catch the bus, he would walk to fill out job applications.  Sometimes walking as far as Milford, CT.  On one his travels a gentlemen saw him walking and asked if he needed a ride, he declined and thanked the gentlemen for the offer.  The gentlemen began to see him more often in h