Mobile Shower Units Round 2 (Statewide)

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) announces the availability of one-time funding for the purchase and modification of a Mobile Shower Unit.

Lack of access to basic public sanitation and hygiene facilities creates barriers to service engagement and participation as well as heightened risk for infectious and non-infectious disease for unhoused individuals.  Providing access to such hygiene facilities allows for unhoused individuals to feel better about themselves and their lives and increase their confidence by meeting their basic hygiene needs which can spark interest in individual recovery in order to more successfully engage and participate in services such as Mental Health and/or Substance Use Disorder treatment, housing readiness and navigation, and employment support.  Mobile Shower Units also create a trusted location where individuals can be provided an array of referrals to services more easily.

Successful applicants will need to demonstrate their agency’s capacity to develop and operate a mobile shower unit, including to secure ongoing funding for operation.

Notice: Notification of intent to apply should be made to the Local Governmental Unit (county director of community services) for each county to be served under the program application, as defined in Section 41 of the New York State Mental Hygiene Law.

All Questions Must Be Submitted to omhlocalprocurement@omh.ny.gov

Only Electronically Submitted Applications/Proposals Will be Accepted. They must be submitted to omhlocalprocurement@omh.ny.gov by the due date and time indicated in the RFP. All late submissions will be returned.