Central Texas Recuperative Care Project

The Central Texas Recuperative Care Project is a collaboration between Front Steps, St. David’s Community Health Foundation, and the St. David’s and Seton hospital systems. Homeless clients who are too sick to be discharged to a shelter or the streets, but not sick enough to warrant acute hospital placement, are placed in a nursing home for the duration of their illness. Front Steps provides intensive case management to address income, housing, and self-care needs.

Following nursing home placement, clients are moved to transitional housing, with ongoing support to assist them in obtaining permanent housing and maintaining their health. Despite long periods of homelessness and lack of involvement in the social service system prior to entering the program, the Recuperative Care clients have demonstrated great success in achieving goals, such as obtaining government disability benefits, becoming clean and sober, and re-establishing contact with family, and have largely been able to remain housed and out of the hospital systems.

Click here to read an overview of the Recuperative Care Project's pilot year or here to read client success stories.