We know from experience that the most effective way to bring an individual in off the streets is to provide housing and a full range of services in a single location.  This is known as supportive housing.  With supportive housing, the programs people need to address the causes of their homelessness are delivered in the same place where they live.

Larkin Street Youth Services, through a partnership with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), offers supportive housing to homeless youth and young adults, ages 18 – 24, at our Ellis Street Apartments. The young people live in the Ellis Street apartment building’s 24 studio units, 6 of which are reserved for youth diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Kids, like adults, are more likely to participate in programs that are easily accessible.  At the Ellis Street Apartments, case management is on-site.  Off-site but nearby are educational opportunities and employment training through Larkin Street’s Hire Up center, medical care, HIV services, and positive recreation activities.

The Ellis Street Apartments offer young people normal city apartment life enhanced with the help that they need to maintain permanent housing.  The result is a program in which residents experience self-sufficiency while receiving the support necessary to maintain it.

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