Choose Help

Compassionate Care invites guests to Choose Help. Through hospitality, food, safe shelter, clothing, showers and medical care, we meet the immediate needs of each person who walks through our Red Doors.

Compassionate Care

The Bowery Mission’s Compassionate Care program serves those experiencing homelessness by providing basic needs and emergency care services in welcoming, trauma-informed environments. Meals, shelter, clothing, and more are provided seven days a week, 365 days a year, to all who walk through our doors — no questions asked.

At the Bowery Mission, Compassionate Care is viewed as an opportunity to build trusting relationships and invite guests to “choose help” through longer-term services and supports. Guests who are ready to move beyond Compassionate Care have the opportunity to begin individualized care planning in partnership with onsite case managers.
 

Each year, with help from our donors, we provide critical services for men, women and children in need:

558,726

meals to men, women, and children in need

140,658

nights of shelter to homeless men and women

100,334

articles of clothing

2,423

onsite medical and optometry exams

 

Free Medical Clinic

Providing life-saving care to neighbors in need

Learn more about services provided at the clinic year-round and hear from the medical professionals who volunteer their time.

Learn More about the Medical Clinic

Thanksgiving at The Bowery Mission

During our 140th Thanksgiving celebration, The Bowery Mission served over 14,800 meals over seven days — nearly 6,700 on Thanksgiving Day alone — across nine campuses and with 29 partners in all five boroughs of New York City and in Newark, NJ.

Learn More about Thanksgiving