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.
 

Thanks to you, The Bowery Mission has been keeping its doors open to safely serve New Yorkers in crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year we provided:

429,500

life-sustaining meals to men, women, and children in need

104,000

nights of safe shelter to neighbors experiencing homelessness

27,600

articles of clothing

67,500

emergency showers

1,500

onsite medical appointments

 

   

Thanksgiving at The Bowery Mission

This year, The Bowery Mission marks its 142nd Thanksgiving Day Celebration in the midst of a continuing pandemic that has ravaged our city. Despite these challenges, we will still rise up to continue our annual tradition of gathering together as New York neighbors, with delicious warm meals and shared compassion.

Learn More about Thanksgiving