Harbor Care

Harbor Care is an innovative network of nonprofit health care, housing, and human services that helps adults, children, and families of New Hampshire find solutions to many of life’s most challenging issues. We provide high-quality housing and residential services, primary and behavioral health care, substance use disorder treatment, HIV/AIDS care, veteran services, and support to individuals and families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Integrated Care + Housing = Success

Our mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare, to all in our communities needing assistance.

Our vision is one in which everyone can live safe, stable, and healthy lives filled with purpose, respect, and dignity.

We believe in the power of integrated care. Our patients and clients have streamlined access to the entire continuum of health and social services of the Harbor Care member agencies. By working together through shared treatment planning, we can better coordinate and deliver comprehensive interventions that empower individuals and families and ultimately build a stronger community.

In Greater Nashua, over the last decades, by learning to work together, incredible results were made possible, and Harbor Care:

• Helped substantially reduce the experience of homelessness in our community.
• Dropped rates of unsheltered homelessness and chronic homelessness.
• Achieved an effective end to veteran homelessness and homelessness among people living with HIV/AIDS.

Strong partnerships have also enabled Harbor Care to help lead our state’s efforts in ending homelessness by:

• Establishing and maintaining consistently high standards of housing, health care, and supportive programs that are evidence-based and best-practice.
• Advocating for low-income community members, veterans, individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders, and other vulnerable populations.
• Generating community awareness, education, understanding, and support around homelessness, poverty, health care, and mental health care.

Harbor Care recognizes the many overlapping, complex factors contributing to poverty and homelessness. Our network of services provides the tools for individuals and families to escape homelessness and related crises or avoid them altogether.

• Healthcare is available through the Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center, Greater Nashua’s community health care center. The center offers primary and preventive health care, behavioral health care, pharmacy services, and oral health care at no-to-low cost to children and adults.
• Housing that serves 1,300 people—often with case management and employment supports on-site—through 400 units of crisis, transitional, permanent supportive, and income-based rental housing.
• Substance Use Services with residential rehab, outpatient services, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), and a host of innovative treatments.
• Veterans Services through our Veterans FIRST suite, with a combination of housing, employment, and supports for veterans and their families.
• Mental Illness Supports with a suite of crisis, outreach, housing, and medical interventions and services.
• HIV/AIDS Services with case management, client advocacy, peer support, and prevention.