Although the primary aim of the Soup Kitchen has always been to provide free meals to those in need, it has quickly outgrown its initial realm of responsibility. Concerned volunteers have created a pleasant and caring atmosphere during the meals. Several participants have found the encouragement needed to attend AA meetings, to seek counseling, to call for job interviews, and to find housing. Those who come in to eat regularly help with the meal preparation and clean-up. The Soup Kitchen is a place where the hungry, the lonely and the outcast can find a meal and companionship.
If you are an organization that can help provide essential resources to our guests in need, please contact [email protected] to discuss ways in which we can work together to further CSK’s mission.
Hypertension Awareness & Prevention Program at Yale (HAPPY) is a collaboration of Yale University students, health professionals, and New Haven health care organizations dedicated to providing free, regular hypertension screenings, linking hypertensive individuals with affordable and immediate medical care, and eliminating barriers to follow-up care for under-served communities in New Haven.
HAPPY provides free blood pressure screenings to guests of CSK on-site between 11:00am-1:00pm on Fridays and from 8:00-9:00am on Saturdays each week.
Street Medicine ensures health equity through access to quality medical care for Greater New Haven’s unreached houseless population. Through direct and regular medical outreach, our Doctors, APRNs, and Physician Assistants provide direct medical care in the streets, shelters, encampments, soup kitchens, and drop-in centers. The Street medicine team bridges the gaps and barriers the houseless experience in receiving medical care through traditional means. The team’s success is driven by care over a continuum that starts by building relationships and offering companionship and respect. In doing so, we meet the patient where they are to address their unique psychosocial and health care needs. Foot care, wound care, medication prescriptions or refills, blood and imaging tests as needed, urgent care, referral to specialists including mental health professionals and addiction medicine, std testing and treatment, HIV prevention treatment (PrEP), Hepatitis C treatment, provide primary care until patient established with primary care for 18 and over.
It’s no coincidence that Thursdays are our most popular day; it’s Kentucky Fried Chicken Day! Three local KFCs flash freeze their leftover chicken and once a week one of our board members picks up enough for us to defrost and serve as our main meal. Special thanks to the managers at these locations:
Whalley Avenue, New Haven
Main Street, East Haven
Route 80, New Haven
Midnight Run distributed 400+ winter jackets and clothing to adults and children in the New Haven Community throughout 2023.
Every Tuesday, between 11am and 1pm they are at CSK to distribute warm clothing to all those who are in need.
We are grateful to the Whalley Ave. Stop and Shop location for their daily donations of unsold baked goods. Their gifts are always a hit with our guests!