Parachute NYC: A New Approach for Individuals Experiencing Psychiatric Crises

• By: Steve Coe Community Access
• April 1st, 2013
• 2842    1

Think back to the last time you had a really bad day. One that even now you shudder to recall—a day characterized, perhaps, by heartache, or disappointment, or loss. Or even physical pain. A day you were glad to get to the end of, which left a mark on you somehow, and which you hope never to...

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Path to Building Supportive Housing

• By: Steve Coe Community Access
• January 1st, 2012
• 752    0

It was the summer of 1979, July 5th to be exact, the first day of my internship at Community Access. My job was to help run a pair of tenement buildings with 44 apartments that provided cheap homes to poor families and single men and women who had been recently discharged from state psychiatric...