About Neighborhood House Association
Rudolph A. Johnson, III
Mr. Rudolph A. Johnson, III President and CEO
The Neighborhood House Association (NHA) is San Diego County's largest multi-purpose human services agency. NHA serves San Diego County through a network of nine programs in over 130 locations. NHA helps thousands of individuals and families improve their quality of life by providing vital social services including employment, healthcare, child, family and senior services.

Head Start - Head Start is a federally-funded child development program designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs. Head Start's approach is that the parent is the child's primary educator and that the entire family, as well as the community, must be involved in guiding and nurturing the child. Over the past four decades, Head Start has touched the lives of more than 250,000 low-income preschool children and families at more than 140 locations in San Diego County. Neighborhood House Association currently holds 83 licenses to operate Head Start facilities.

The CONNECTION - The Connection is a teen pregnancy prevention program that provides pro-active education to high-risk teens. The program serves teens through in-school curriculum aimed at assisting youth to make responsible decisions relevant to sexual and reproductive behavior.

Senior Service Center - The Senior Service Center provides socialization, recreation, education, health and nutrition services to assist in the independence and safety of persons 60 years of age and older.

Adult Day Health Care - Adult Day Health Care is an adult day treatment program that provides nursing, psychosocial nutrition services and occupational and physical therapy activities to adults 18 or older who have physical or mental health problems that affect their ability to perform activities of daily living.

Project Enable/Friendship Clubhouse - Project Enable delivers a wide-array of mental health services to adults 18 years of age and older. Services primarily focus on providing medication management and symptom reduction to clients who have, in most cases, been diagnosed with serious mental illness. Services include day treatment, psychiatric medication, medication management, intensive case management, continued stabilization and individual and group therapy. Project Enable has a socialization component, called The Clubhouse, which provides skills training, socialization, recreation, assistance with daily living, job skills training, vocational and employment services and purposeful recreational activities.

HIV/AIDS Case Management - HIV/AIDS Case Management is aimed at improving the health status, quality of life and life expectancy of HIV/AIDS affected and infected clients. Services include intensive case management, service referrals, peer advocacy assistance, support groups, mental health counseling and treatment education workshops.

HIV/AIDS Transportation - HIV/AIDS Transportation Services provides assisted and unassisted transportation to low-income residents of San Diego County who are affected by HIV/AIDS. Unassisted services refer to travel vouchers, bus tokens and coaster passes that are provided to clients via case management programs.

Housing Counseling - The Housing Counseling Program, a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved agency, offers comprehensive education and counseling to homeowners, renters and landlords. The Housing Counseling staff provide a variety of one-on-one and group counseling services that address Rental Counseling & Education, First Time Homebuyer Workshops, Rental Placement Assistance, Tenant/Landlord Dispute Resolution, Mortgage Delinquency/Default Counseling, Reverse Mortgage Counseling, Predatory Lending Counseling and FEMA Rent & Mortgage Assistance.