The Office of Supportive Housing Services is part of the Department of Internal Medicine, which is one of the largest clinical departments in the School of Medicine with over 100 faculty and staff in nine different divisions. The Department of Medicine has many years of experience in community medical and public health based services when it became one of the first service providers for persons with HIV in the state of South Carolina by administering the federal Ryan White program through a grant from the South Carolina, Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). This began medical care to persons who were uninsured and underinsured and who were living with HIV.

In 2004, the Department of Medicine received a grant from the City of Columbia to begin a case management program for persons with HIV through federal Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Today, our office has four programs through which we provide services to persons who have disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and who are homeless or who are at an increased risk of homelessness. We work with clients who have an interest in learning ways to change their current situation, as our service providers engage our clients with the idea that each client will work as hard as we do to help him or herself get ahead and to change the current situation. We provide case management, not crisis management services. We help with crises, but we help teach how to avoid them in the future.

For more information about our services, please contact our office at 803.343.3437.

We provide services to residents of the following counties: Richland, Lexington, Saluda, Calhoun, Fairfield and Kershaw.