Outreach Community Health Centers
Krissy Scardina LPC, NCC is an experienced mental health professional currently serving as a Psychotherapist at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers since July 2024 and a Clinical Coordinator at Outreach Community Health Centers since December 2022. Scardina has also worked as a Mental Health Therapist at Empath Counseling since October 2021 and previously held the position of Therapist at Rogers Behavioral Health from May 2021 to December 2021. Additional experience includes serving as a Youth and Family Therapist and Crisis Intervention Team Member at Wheaton Youth Outreach, where Scardina worked from August 2020 to May 2021, alongside a role as a Clinical Intern and Associate Therapist from June 2019 to May 2020. Prior to entering the mental health field, Scardina was a Middle School Teacher and Coach at Grace International School from 2015 to 2018, and a Camp Counselor at Camp Timber-lee in June 2014. Scardina earned a Master's degree in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from Wheaton College (2018-2020) and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary/Middle Education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2011-2015).
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.