“They were kind of there for me when no one was.”
He believes there are systemic factors that block people’s
ability to climb out of homelessness when battling other
challenges like addiction. One is access to treatment, with
long waits between someone exiting a detox facility and
getting sustained professional help. The other is more
intangible — a lack of long-term emotional support through
the ups and downs.
“I’d been in these kinds of situations before, whether it
was mental health or an overdose itself, and then I would
just be kicked out (of the ER),” Nik said. Through the new
emergency outreach team model, he felt a deeper sense of
care, and it imbued him with faith that recovery was still
possible and within reach. “They were kind of there for me
when no one was.”
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