UPMC center, 803 East Ave., is home to a new free grocery store that allows roughly 100 families a month to choose fresh food and household goods.

Another free grocery store serving a community in a food desert.

What’s unique about this one is the proximity mental health and community support services.

One of the larger barriers standing between people and help is the lack of integration between services, when mental health problems usually go hand-in-hand with reduced income, social isolation and housing instability. Having multiple programs under one roof helps to lower those barriers.