Outreach Community Health Centers
Candace Coates, LCSW, serves as the Director of Community Services at Outreach Community Health Centers since October 2023, overseeing seven community services and behavioral health programs. Owner of Assured Clinical Services, LLC since May 2016, Candace has also worked as a Medical Social Worker for Ascension. Candace has held various academic and clinical roles, including Poverty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, while actively contributing to the Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling and Social Work Examining Board. Previous positions include Lead Psychiatric Social Worker for Milwaukee County, Probation Officer Assistant for the U.S. Probation Office, and multiple roles in psychiatric social work. Candace is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, following an academic background in social work, adult education, and criminology.
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Outreach Community Health Centers
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Our History and Mission Formerly Health Care for the Homeless, Outreach Community Health Centers (OCHC) has, at the heart of its mission, a drive to provide the highest quality health care and support services to the most vulnerable people in the Greater Milwaukee Area: the homeless, those experiencing extreme poverty and the uninsured. Incorporated in 1980, Outreach Community Health Centers began direct service delivery in 1984 as a demonstration project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Memorial Trust. During the past 35 years, OCHC programs have grown to provide a strong continuum of services for the homeless as well as a critical complement of support services for the poor and uninsured. Today, OCHC delivers services to those in need at six different locations, while our Street Outreach team seeks and finds homeless people sheltered in abandoned buildings and parks, as well as those seeking service at area shelters, food pantries and meal sites. OCHC serves the most disadvantaged people in Milwaukee County. Residents of the 5 poorest zip codes in Milwaukee County make up 40% of OCHC’s service population, and the zip code of our primary service site, 53206, has a median household income that is 48.7% lower than that of the county as a whole.