Friends & Neighbors’ Coordinated Street Outreach program is building relationships with and providing services to our unsheltered neighbors in the City of York and surrounding municipalities. Depending on the need, specific services may include physically guiding a service recipient to shelter, helping to make phone calls for benefits and other types of connections, providing bus passes for transportation support in order to return to a safe sheltered place, providing supplies to those choosing to remain outdoors, or those who cannot access shelter space for various reasons. 

With each engagement, advocates build respectful and trusting relationships with these service recipients and are able to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying circumstances that have led to the recipients’ current situations. This often allows advocates to suggest and coordinate additional service opportunities through the collaborative network of services providers. Ideally, this will lead to a stable housing opportunity for the service recipient.