Hello and welcome! Patients are seen on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please call use at 414-342-1065. Thank you!
Free Medical Clinic
Our free medical clinic partners with the physicians assistant program at Marquette University and the nursing program at UWM to bring our neighbours quality, free healthcare and health essentials, saving our community unnecessary and expensive emergency room visits, reducing healthcare cost for all.
From free medications for chronic illness like diabetes and high blood pressure, to health monitoring, to vaccine and screening clinics, our medical clinic can do so much with so little because of our valued partnerships in Milwaukee, as well as support from Repairers like you.
The need is evident.
Employees with chronic, untreated illnesses miss 5.5 work days per year, more than double the average worker, and unaffordability is a major contributor to illnesses remaining untreated. More missed work means less pay and can even mean job loss… both instances of which can contribute to homelessness.
“Employers lose 28.2 million workdays annually ($4.95 billion in lost income) due to functional limitation caused by chronic diseases.”
Aside from economics, though, our free medical clinic helps us achieve part of our vision, that everyone has access to healthcare, and by providing free medication, supplies, care, and referrals, we not only help our community financially, but we help them physically, as well, making our clinic an important life-saving and life-sustaining program.
Shelter & Resources Program
Our largest program is our Shelter & Resources program. Within this program is a very important life-saving service: our emergency warming room. Wisconsin winters …especially nights… are deadly. In response, we open every night from the end of November until March 31st, annually, to provide emergency shelter for those who are on waiting lists for shelters or who suddenly found themselves without shelter that night.
For the 2024-2025 winter season, we averaged over 1250 overnight visits monthly.
The need is evident.
And though it is costly with additional supply and utility expenses, as well as an entire full-time staff for overnights, we believe our neighbors are worth it. No one should die because they could not find shelter in the winter.
In addition to our emergency warming room, our shelter & resources program provides a cooling shelter during our sweltering summers, a shower service which includes hygiene products, a free clothing bank (our Boston Store) which provides clothes, underclothes, interview clothes, and winter essentials, computer access, mail and phone services (our Lifelines), locker storage, toilet availability, access to resources, and even trash service. From emptying backpacks to cars, by utilising our trash containers, our Members literally keep tons of trash off the streets annually.
Most employers toss job applications with no address on them. What if you have no address???
ROTB offers mail service, so that you have an address for that application.
Starvation affects people physically, physiologically, and psychologically. According to the National Eating Disorders Collaboration, a starved mind suffers from “depression, anxiety, irritability, increased mood fluctuations, intense and negative emotional reactions, decreased enthusiasm, reduced motivation, impaired concentration, problem solving and comprehension, increased rigidity, obsessional thinking and reduced alertness.”
And unfortunately, hunger is a common problem in the USA. One in seven households, or 48 million people, face food insecurity. And hunger affects all of us. A study done by Hamelin, Habicht, and Beaudry found that entire societies are affected when even a percentage of the population is starving.
Even in Milwaukee, the need is evident. In 2025, Repairers of the Breach served 70,029 meals, excluding meals served during emergency warming room times. From hearty lunches and bag lunches to picnic events, to continental breakfast and snacks, we work to ensure no one has an empty belly here, which leaves nourished minds open to work towards improving their circumstances.
Besides in-kind donations and financial donations, we can serve so many meals because of generosity from faith-based groups who serve meals or even holiday meals occasionally, to groups like Alpha Kappa Alpha who serve holiday meals like their annual MLK day meal, to organisations like the Hunger Task Force providing us with food essentials to make meals.
Breakfast times are:
Lunch times are:
And coffee and snacks are offered throughout the day.
Employment Assistance Program
Breach Cafe
“Hunger severely hinders societal progress by stunting long-term economic growth, deepening healthcare crises, and fueling instability.”