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What is the best thing that can come from doing outreach to help the homeless? When outreach shows up calm, respectful, predictable, and un-soliciting, it just might be giving someone an experience that they long for but seldom get: An opportunity to be treated like a human being instead of a problem.

Challenging outreach this morning. Hit the usual spots: Parks, entry ways to closed businesses, inconspicuous places near Canal Street, near railroad tracks, bridges. As usual, forces are scattering the unhoused. (((((Folks – these are human beings, not cattle)))). It’s always good to see and hear that other groups either established charitable organizations, church groups, or…

We look at outreach this way: A tool to restore the one thing trauma destroys: trust People outside have been: lied to abandoned judged criminalized victimized ignored When someone keeps showing up with no agenda except care, it rewires something deep. Trust is the soil where every other change grows.

TRYING TO LIVE ANOTHER DAY I see a face staring at me, Weathered by nights that never end, Outside in the cold, in the darkness, A person reaching for light. Addiction is their master, But it’s not the needles they see, It’s the years of trying to outrun the pain. Trying to live another day…

Gave out food, clothing, tarps, and emergency survival blankets this morning. Police have broken up camps and have scattered the unhoused homeless in Manchester every which way. Quite unfortunate!

The hardest lesson people learn when they first become unhoused is that the world no longer runs on the same rules they were living by the day before. It hits fast, and it hits in the gut. Everything else grows out of that one realization. They learn that much of what they had control over…

When you come across a group of homeless people out in a damp rain, shivering, hungry, despairing, what do you do – drive by or walk by as if you didn’t see them, act as if they don’t exist? Well, they do exist and they are your brothers and sisters in need. No matter how…

Winter resource centers/warming stations are essentially for the chronically homeless – people who would otherwise freeze to death out in the cold. For those organizations who provided such facilities for the homeless in the Greater Manchester Area, the Greater Concord Area and other areas, we salute you and thank you for caring.

People who are unhoused need a place where their exhaustion is allowed and validated, where they can just rest and contemplate. They need to be in an atmosphere that serves to remind them that their life’s story isn’t finished. They need a sanctuary where they can set aside the heavy burden they’re carrying.

It’s not easy to maintain a positive attitude when you’re living outdoors dealing 24/7 with danger, harassment, uncertainty, hunger, and adverse weather conditions. Being unhoused can make anyone sour, tense, or prickly. It is a tough spot to be in. It can make anyone feel overwhelmed and shamed. And it can make people fear being…