Opened in 1999, the Broward County Central Homeless Assistance Center/Huizenga Family Campus (Center) is a 57,000 square foot, 200-bed residential emergency shelter. The Center provides emergency shelter and solution-focused services to individuals and families. The term emergency means that the average stay is 60 days. Since opening in 1999, BPHI has assisted more than 12,000 individuals.
BPHI believes that an individual’s stay at the Center, although time limited, represents a unique (and perhaps only) opportunity to stabilize, engage and acquire the personal tools necessary to break the cycle of homelessness. More than an emergency shelter, the Center provides a safe and nurturing environment designed to highlight alternatives to living on the street and provide each resident with the means to reacquire health, housing, and a sustaining income.
On-site services include primary medical and dental care; mental health diagnosis and treatment, including psychiatric services, substance abuse education, prevention, intervention and treatment; child care; parenting education, support groups and family therapy; educational services, including GED; vocational assessment, job readiness, job training and placement services; life skills classes; computer classes; and 12-Step programs.
The first story of facility contains the Medical and Dental clinics, Case Management offices, the Workforce Development Center and computer lab, the Child Care Center, a Children’s Learning Center, classrooms, a library, a gym, a hair salon, a clothing center and laundry facilities.
The second floor accommodates the 20-bed Screening and Assessment Unit, the Behavioral health offices, and the living arrangements consisting of two men's dormitories that house a total of 120 men, one women's dormitory for 40 women, and a modular family wing for ten families or 40 family members.
Residents eat in a central dining room that serves three meals prepared in the Center’s commercial kitchen. The kitchen also serves as a vocational training facility for Residents interested in careers in food service.
Broward Partnership for the Homeless - Rebuilding Lives
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