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Among Breaking Ground's activities is conducting street outreach, which consists of documenting the homeless population and then trying to persuade those who spend the most time on the streets to seek permanent housing, even if they still have drug, alcohol or medical problems.
Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts; Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh) Salvation Army; SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people; San Antonio Housing Authority
The outreach teams brings vital care to people living on the street, but looming budget cuts leave the future of the program uncertain. Homeless shelter's Street Outreach program at risk of ...
Mar. 30—The city of Portland broke ground Tuesday on a 208-bed homeless services center that officials say will transform the way the city and its partners provide critical services to those ...
The role of the outreach worker can become uncertain in this practice—although outreach workers are supposed to be advocates, in this situation there is an inherent power dynamic that positions the outreach worker as the role of the gatekeeper, which allows them to wield the power over the unhoused individual to provide them with certain ...
90-year-old structure. Ground was broken for the new $4.5 million shelter on Thursday behind the current facility, which is more than 90 years old and no longer meets the needs of the shelter.
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
Police in Kansas City, Mo., have uncovered an "underground suburb" where homeless people have been living, the likes of which homeless outreach groups have never seen, local station KMBC-TV reported.