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In the coffee shop where I’m writing this article customers are complaining about the heat. “It’s so hot, I can’t survive,” wails one. For many vulnerable New Yorkers, there is a real threat of dying ...

In Los Angeles, an outreach worker searches out homeless people, makes contact, earns the trust of people who have learned to trust few and shepherds them into temporary housing and eventually ...

More than 30,000 U.S. military veterans are homeless, though that number has gone down in the past decade, according to government data. The Trump administration has promised new housing for vets, but ...

Imagine going to work every day knowing that people you're trying to help might hide from you. And even when they ask for help, you're likely not able to offer the thing they most need. And no matter ...

More than 100 people were shot in Chicago over a summer weekend in 2021. One resident, 52-year-old Rick, was among them, and his story might seem like just another shooting in a city wrestling with a ...

At first glance, it may seem easy to recognize the very makeup of this city. But if you look closer, there's an issue that can hide in plain sight."It was so scary not knowing where we were going to ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - On Wednesday, the Portland Police Bureau’s Central NRT Bike Squad, Oregon State Police, and outreach workers from Mental Health and Addiction Association of Oregon teamed up ...

A West Seneca fireworks tent is doubling as a free naloxone distribution site, where an opioid outreach worker is handing out ...