The Journey to Recovery Begins Here - The Open Door

The Open Door Housing Program

Based in Pittsburgh, PA The Open Door, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) company dedicated to providing affordable, safe and supportive housing for chronically homeless, high risk HIV+ individuals currently living in poverty.

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OUR MISSION

The mission of The Open Door is
to provide a supportive housing
program that improves the health
of the forgotten population of
high risk, chronically homeless
people living with HIV.

Our Doors Are Always Open!

The Open Door provides housing for individuals that are not eligible for more traditional housing
programs, and we welcome high risk individuals, including those with substance use, mental
health and criminal backgrounds.

We recognize that peer monitors are keys to success. They provide medication adherence
supports, housing supports and assistance, outpatient substance use supports as well as
individual and group level peer counseling.

Housing Summit Report 2008

Improving The Health Outcomes For Homeless Substance Users Through Harm Reduction Housing

Includes:

  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion

View or Download the PowerPoint Poster

What The Open Door does:

  • Provides supportive housing and independent living for people living with HIV
  • Empowers residents to live independently and improve their health and quality of life and ultimately improve their roles in the community
  • Provides housing for individuals that are not eligible for more traditional housing programs due to high risk issues such as substance use, mental health and criminal backgrounds
  • Follows a housing first model and harm reduction approach
  • Helps residents take a positive and functional role in their own lives including attending to their medical needs and increasing their independence

Why Housing?

  • For people living with HIV/AIDS, research has shown that consistent and stable housing leads to improved access to health care, on-going engagement in care, and treatment success.
  • People receiving practical housing assistance are almost four times more likely to enter into medical care then those who do not get housing assistance.
  • People living with HIV want to live independently but the high demands of their medical needs, their sometimes chaotic lifestyle and their low income prevent them from being able to do this successfully on their own.
  • A change in housing status is strongly associated with a change in at-risk behavior.