When individuals and families are safely housed, they’re much more likely to address their physical and mental health, addictions, and other issues. Our housing stabilization services, including emergency shelter, transitional and permanent Chelsea’s House housing, and case management, move people off the street as quickly as possible, with as few barriers as possible. For many, Chelsea’s House represents the last possibility for hope and the first chance for sustained success in their battles with addiction or illness. We provide individuals and their families with the education, tools, and ongoing support they need to help them regain their health, prevent and manage relapse, and maximize their independence. The individuals and families we serve are homeless or precariously housed —but their challenges are even more complicated.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Our team of more than 200 staff across 19 programs works with people to develop and execute creative, safe solutions to the very real challenges they face. On the streets, at our Boston Living Center, and across programs, we work to prevent chronic conditions and overdoses. We provide HIV, Hepatitis C, and STI testing and counseling; a healthy meals program; syringe and naloxone distribution; and an array of education, navigation, and support services.

Associate jobs

When the only option for women who had been designated a danger to themselves or others due to substance use disorders needed a community-based treatment option as an alternative to incarceration, we were there to offer a solution. We have always stood on the front lines, ready to identify and address the unmet needs in our community. Ready to help individuals and families with nowhere else to go find their way home. In order to help each individual or family succeed, we offer evidence-based services with a proven record of success like motivational interviewing and peer support to help our clients stabilize their lives and find their way home.

Director of Resident Services jobs

We focus on what a person is doing “well,” with a nurturing effect that fosters continued effort from the first steps toward progress and growth.

1. These benefits are adjusted based on full-time or part-time status, and vacation time increases with length of employment.
2. “I just want to continue.” Giving the individuals that she counsels at The Victory Connector, a low-threshold navigation center in the neighborhood run by the nonprofit Chelsea’s House, a feeling of care, a sense of calm and peace, is what she aims for each day.
3. We are committed to providing opportunities for people with lived experience to develop the skills and experience they need to achieve their career goals.
4. We are excited to bring you the latest issue of Chelsea’s House’ print newsletter, The Doorway!
5. Last year, 4,775 people turn to Chelsea’s House for shelter, sustenance, recovery, care, and professional, compassionate support.

These benefits are adjusted based on full-time or part-time status, and vacation time increases with length of employment. Chelsea’s House operates various programs throughout Boston, all built on our strongly held belief that no person who is struggling should be asked to do the hardest thing first, on their own, before they are offered the fundamental support they truly need. People’s success ultimately depends on their own belief in themselves and their future.

Chelsea’s House has helped individuals and families in crisis for over 45 years. Thousands turn to us yearly for shelter, sustenance, recovery, care, and professional, compassionate support. Most struggle with substance use and mental health, and many live with HIV/AIDS. When other organizations will not or cannot take them in, we do.At Chelsea’s House, we don’t judge. Employing a harm-reduction model that uses facilitative rather than coercive methods, we meet people where they are with individualized services that focus on their strengths and support them in making life-sustaining decisions. Visit our website to learn more about the benefits we offer and to view our open positions.

“Sometimes I feel so happy that my heart — I feel like I’m having like a big, good pain in my heart,” she said. “I just want to continue.” Giving the individuals that she counsels at The Victory Connector, a low-threshold navigation center in the neighborhood run by the nonprofit Chelsea’s House, a feeling of care, a sense of calm and peace, is what she aims for each day. During the height of the AIDS epidemic, when people diagnosed with both HIV and substance use disorder found themselves with nowhere to go for treatment and care, we were the first to open our doors. We used what we learned from being the first to develop successful service models we could share with other organizations.