Subway Outreach Services
Location:
New York, United States
Posted on:
Feb 14, 2026
Deadline:
Mar 19, 2026
Summary:
Outreach services RFP for individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness in New York subways, including case management and housing placement.
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Vendor needs to provide subway outreach services. Developing a comprehensive continuum of services tailored to the unique needs of individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness and offers resources and services designed to help individuals secure stable, long–term housing. Provide street outreach, case management and housing placement services to individuals experiencing homelessness in public spaces, including the street and subway, many of whom face complex challenges including serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Outreach teams are a referral source into Safe Havens and Stabilization Beds, low–barrier, service–rich placements designed to engage individuals who are not yet ready for traditional shelter, offering a pathway toward permanent housing. Devise a strategy for engaging clients at the end of the line terminal stations, which would include collaboration with law enforcement and partners. Field outreach teams workers would be responsible for canvassing areas within the contractor’s catchment area, identifying individuals within such areas that appear to be experiencing unsheltered homelessness, gathering demographic information about such individuals, offering such individuals services, and reporting on such individuals to case managers. Create an individualized and comprehensive plan for each clinical caseload client, detailing all services, evidence based therapeutic supports and any other steps necessary to achieve placement in permanent housing or a long–term transitional setting within 90 days of such client coming onto caseload. The contract period will be for three years.
