Ford Street Project

Ford Street Project is a nonprofit organization serving the addicted and homeless people of Mendocino County, California since 1974. The organization provides comprehensive community services including substance abuse treatment, emergency and transitional housing, and food assistance. The Ukiah Recovery Center, a Ford Street program, offers Social Withdrawal Management/Detoxification, Residential Treatment, Case Management for housing and employment referrals, vocational classes in organic gardening and commercial kitchen, and outpatient individual and group counseling sessions. The organization also operates Unity Village Housing and Family Emergency Shelter Programs providing temporary and long-term housing for families experiencing homelessness, a Community Food Bank with weekly and emergency food distributions, and low-income permanent housing. The organization has been recognized as a 2018 California Nonprofit of the Year.