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Street outreach teams stress trust, harm reduction and coordinated abatement planning
Summary
Outreach teams and medics said prolonged, consistent contact and harm reduction (naloxone, wound care, supplies) are essential for connecting people living outdoors to services; they also asked for clearer municipal abatement notice processes to avoid losing connections.
Outreach teams, medics and municipal partners told summit participants that repeated, consistent contact and harm‑reduction supplies are the backbone of connecting people who live outdoors to services and housing.
Morgan (outreach team lead) described early successes for a recently formed outreach unit that partnered with established providers to locate and engage people: a veteran and his partner who had…
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