N Street Village, Inc.

N Street Village has welcomed homeless women for over 35 years. Programs include a day center, transitional and permanent housing, mental and physical health care and support to re-enter the workforce.

Why do we exist?

The mission of N Street Village is to be a place of biblical hospitality – to “welcome the stranger – in center city Washington, D.C. We serve the immediate and long-term needs of homeless women and low-income working families with programs that range from meals and showers to affordable rental housing. We believe that each of us has a gift to give: the opportunity to assist another person in their journey back to wholeness and well-being. In this way, we complete ourselves and make our community whole.

What have you accomplished?

Each year about 600 women come to N Street Village for services ranging from meals, showers and clothing to residential addiction recovery and wellness programs. Of those 600 women, more than 100 will move into our night shelter and begin working with their case manager on moving out of homelessness. Some will move into our group homes for women with mental illness. Approximately 50 will enter Harriet Tubman House, the first phase of our addiction recovery program. More than 300 will be served by our Wellness Center.

A brief story about someone we’ve helped is the story of Jackie, a young woman who is probably from the Philippines. She somehow found her way to Bethany Women’s Center at N Street Village for meals, but she would hardly talk to anyone. Through the work of our shelter staff and folks from the D.C. Commission on Mental Health, we were able – after many months – to get her to agree to a psychiatric consultation and then to take an appropriate medication. Almost a year later, she was able to move out of our shelter into one of our group homes for women with mental illness. She is now quite independent and enjoying community living.

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