Our Mission:

St. Paul's Center is committed to care for persons suffering from chronic mental illness, especially the poor and homeless, with respect, integrity, compassion and excellence.

Our goals include:

1. Delivery of accessible, collaborative and comprehensive psychiatric mental health care in accordance with our mission.
2. Modeling a systemic change to address the needs of the impoverished and disenfranchised who suffer from mental illness.
3. Preparing new psychiatric nurse practitioners to care for this population.

Currently, Saint Paul’s Center provides charitable care for those who are un- or under-insured and unable to pay out of pocket.

In New York City, there are poor and homeless persons for whom chronic mental illness is a daily burden, incapacitating their ability to function or improve their life circumstances. For those in this disenfranchised stratum of city society, homelessness, poverty, incarceration, substance abuse and broken families are sadly the norm.

Their mental health care provision regularly and excessively takes place at the hospital emergency department and admission level. The costs to the city of this form of treatment are exorbitant. Further, the care is abrupt and all too often lacks sufficient follow-up treatment planning. These persons face wildly challenging odds in a system that has failed them and the city as a whole.

St. Paul’s Center’s guiding vision is to provide mental health care at the community level to those for whom it is desperately needed and frequently not provided.