Overview
Many police departments have formed specialized teams that provide outreach and wraparound services for people experiencing homelessness. Outreach teams often partner with people with lived experience with homelessness who serve as peer partners. These partnerships are essential to outreach teams, authenticity, community responsivity, and cross-disciplinary learning; they give law enforcement the opportunity to deepen their understanding of homelessness and offer clients the chance to work with colleagues who have direct experience with the issues they are currently having in their lives. Other peer partners work directly with social service agencies. This video panel highlights two police outreach teams who work with peer partners discussing their collaboration strengths and steps teams can take to remove barriers to housing and sustained services.
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