Mount Vernon Continuum of Care Provider Program Description

Provider/HUD Program / Program Contact / Summary
City of Mount Vernon *
Harm Reduction & Outreach
Shallow Rent / Danielle Scholar, HOPWA Director
Mt. Vernon Dept. of Planning & Community Development/ Urban Renewal Agency
Phone: 699-7230 x. 138
Fax: 665-0823
Email: / Harm Reduction and Outreach provides harm reduction outreach services to homeless individuals.
Shallow Rent provides rental subsidies to disabled homeless with HIV/AIDS.
City of Mount Vernon Homeless*
Employment Initiative / Ron Iaboni, Job Developer
Mt. Vernon Dept. of Planning & Community Development/ Urban Renewal Agency
Phone: 699-7230 ext. 130 Fax: 699-1435
Email: / Provides homeless individuals with job development and training and rental assistance.
City of Mount Vernon S+C * / Carmen Sylvester, Administrator
Mt.Vernon Dept. of Planning & Community Development/ Urban Renewal Agency
Phone: 699-7230 Fax: 699-1435
Email: / Directly provides a combined total of 16 units of S+C, this doesn’t include the S+C provided by other sponsors. These units provide housing and supportive services to various populations including the chronic homeless. Supportive services are provided HOPWA and Renaissance Project, Inc.
City of Mount Vernon/ Veteran Housing S+C* / Will Dubose, Director
Mount Vernon Veterans Service Agency
Phone: 665-2319 Fax: 665-4544
Email: / Provides 3 units of S+C to homeless disabled Mount Vernon veterans. These units provide case management and housing with supportive services for chemical dependency, HIV/AIDS, mental illness and/or physical disability. Many of these supportive services will be provided by VA Hudson Valley Health Care System or other VA facilities.
Julia Dyckman Andrus*
MV Family Strengthening / Christopher Haywood
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial, Inc.
Phone: 667-4826 x101 Fax: 667-4736
Email: / Provides a family support program designed to increase resilience and rude familial substance abuse among at least 15 homeless families in Mount Vernon.
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
100 East First Street, 8th Floor
Mt. Vernon, New York10550 / Jill Bradshaw-Soto, Esq., Managing Attorney
Tara Baksh - Intake Paralegal
Main Number:813-6880
Telephone Intake Number:1-877-574-8529
Email: / Provides legal assistance in theareas of housing law; consumer law; Public Benefits;Unemployment Benefits; Domestic Violence;Education Law; & Disability Law.
*Walk-In Intakes Provided on an Emergency Basis
*Clients must be both income andcitizenship eligible
Mount Vernon Family YMCA S+C* /

Henry Wilson, Deputy DirectorMount Vernon Family YMCA of Central & Northern WestchesterPhone: 668-4041 Fax: 668-5407E-mail:

/ Provides 13 units of S+C for homeless residents that are disabled due to chemical dependency, HIV/AIDS, mental illness and/or physical disability, with case management and supportive services through Renaissance Project, Inc. The YMCA is also Mount Vernon’s largest SRO provider.
MV United Tenants
Rehousing Assistance Program / Dennis Hanratty, Executive Director
Mount Vernon United Tenants, Inc.
Phone: 699-1114 Fax: 699-7449
Email: / Provides housing retention services focusing on eviction prevention and re-housing. Provide evictees with tenant rights to assist them in ensuring tenancy. Also refers participants to community resources to help them secure increased income.
Renaissance
Chemical Dependency Outreach Project, Mt.Vernon Chronic Homeless Outreach, & S+C* / Ira Wolfe, Director of Operations
The Renaissance Project, Inc.
Phone: 345-1312 Fax: 345-1318
Email: / Provides street outreach and permanent housing to various populations, including chemically dependant homeless, chronic homeless, and dually diagnosed homeless. Chronic Homeless Outreach provides ongoing case management to promote housing retention to participants living in CoC funded housing. S+C provides 4 units of permanent housing with supportive services and case management.
Westhab
Mt.Vernon OWN
Self-Sufficiency Through Employment* / James Coughlin, Director Employment & Training Programs
Westhab, Inc.
345-2800 (fax) 345-3139
Email: / Mt. Vernon OWN and Self-Sufficiency Through Employment projects provide transitional housing, case management, employment readiness, job placement, linkages to skills training, and employment retention to homeless adults in Mount Vernon.

* Serves only Mount Vernon residents.