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Health CareHealth care is often the first step toward accepting assistance. Unity HealthCare operates a clinic with a doctor and nurse twice a week at Friendship Place. Consumers who need specialized care can be referred. Limited shower and laundry facilities are also available. Mondays 1:00-4:00 pm and Wednesdays 9:00-11:30 am Psychiatric CareConsumers have access to mental health counseling and psychiatric evaluations each week at Friendship Place. The psychiatrist, who has many years of experience helping homeless people with mental illness in D.C., also advises the staff. He or she sometimes goes with the outreach van to initiate a relationship. Thursday 1:00-4:00 pm Supportive ServicesThis begins on the street with an individualized treatment plan developed by the clinical director with the consumer and an outreach worker. It includes all the issues a consumer will work on in rebuilding his or her life, and encompasses all the services offered at Friendship Place. We use a strengths-based approach to empower consumers to become as self-sufficient as possible. Monday 12:30-4:00 pm |