Old Pueblo Community Services, in collaboration with community partners, finds way to help resolve community problems. We help our consumers succeed by offering a continuum of care of quality services based on Evidenced-Based Practices. We exist to provide a pathway from homelessness, addiction, and desperation; offering the hope needed that people require to be successful and achieve a quality of life.
With your help, we can provide the hope people need to achieve self-sufficiency and financial responsibility and regain dignity. Together with you we can make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable in our community.
Hear Nick Jones speak about Old Pueblo Community Services on KCXI's Local Non Profit Profile
Recent News
We recently hired Nancy E. Jones as Director of Development. Mrs. Jones has worked in the non-profit sector, both professionally and as a volunteer, since the early 1980’s. Having come to Tucson in 2001, Nancy spent three years in Public Information at the Muscular Dystrophy Association, three years as Resource Development Director and Project Manager for the Days of Caring at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, and three years at St. Luke’s Home as Director of Development.
EMPOWR (Engaging, Motivating and Providing Options Within Recovery) is a new five-year clinical program funded by SAMSHA to treat adult homeless Veterans with substance abuse and/or co-occurring disorders. Our partners are HOPE, Inc, El Rio Broadway Clinic, Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems (SAVAHCS), Vets 4 Vets, and the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF).
One Step at a Time Mentoring is a two year DOJ program that will effectively address recidivism issues for adult offenders in the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) by offering mentoring services inside and upon release.
Inside Out Recovery Partnership is a new program, partnering with Pima County, that will provide expanded assessment and treatment for male and female inmates with mental health disorders and substance abuse disorders while in custody at the Mission Jail in Tucson. The proposed project will offer a continuum of care from incarceration to reentry, helping those transitions from jail to the streets.
We will open the new Kleindale Facility which will open a new 32 bed transitional housing facility on December 1st, 2011 near Country Club and Fort Lowell for 34 men.
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) in Tucson has awarded Old Pueblo Community Services with a Rapid Emergent Housing (REH) contract that provides services as part of its Community Based Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) program. The goal of the HCHV program is to remove homeless Veterans from the street or habitation unfit for Veterans and place them in community-based, residential environments with sufficient therapeutic services.
In partnership with Primavera Foundation and Esperanza y Escalante, Old Pueblo Community Services received notification of funding for the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program, which is a new VA program that will provide homeless prevention services that will help very low-income Veterans and their families. The program will provide a wide range of supportive services designed to promote housing stability and self sufficiently.
