Elmwood Community Shelter (Champlain Housing Trust)

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The Elmwood Community Shelter (ECS) provides specialized support services to people with mental and medical health issues, substance use disorder, and other challenges with accessing traditional shelter options. The screening process for ECS is operated from a low-barrier perspective—meaning that we do not require that people be sober, compliant with mental health or substance use disorder treatment. While engagement to on-site social services and housing resources are strongly encouraged, guests of the shelter are not required to participate in these programs to maintain guest-status at the ECS. Instead, we welcome our guests to a community of people experiencing similar challenges; meeting them where they are at.