Street Medicine in the Nation's Capitol
Washington, DC
Joined December 2021
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Street Health DC retweeted
🚨🚨We can't end chronic homelessness without preventing it in the first place. @MayorBowser must use her upcoming budget to get serious about preventing chronic homelessness, especially for single adults.
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Street Health DC retweeted
We call on @MurielBowser to invest $55.5 million to fund PSH for 1,260 individuals and 480 families. Raise your voice via the link in our bio.
Street Health DC retweeted
🚨 NOTICE 🚨
Feb 25, 2023: the District’s Hypothermia Alert will be ACTIVATED at 7pm.
Check on unsheltered neighbors, seniors, and other vulnerable individuals.
If you see someone in need of shelter call:
☎️ 202-399-7093 or 311.
📞 911 if there’s an immediate safety risk.
The McPherson Square encampment eviction is today. Trust between outreach workers and other service providers is undermined. Where it can take years to establish trust, it takes only seconds to lose it. This hinders connecting residents to housing and health care.
The encampment eviction is tomorrow. Encampment evictions sever connections to care. It becomes very difficult for residents and outreach workers to locate each other to continue services that connect to housing and health care.
Encampment evictions result in the loss of vital records: social security, birth certificate, health insurance cards, and other ID. This makes engaging with social services and healthcare extremely difficult or impossible until replaced.
3 days until the McPherson Square encampment eviction. Former encampment residents experience increased risk of physical assault after eviction from encampments due to absence of a community and protected living location.
Evictions contribute to drug overdose: life saving narcan gets lost and residents are pushed into living in isolation. Residents loose protective community that would administer narcan for overdose, and participation in addiction treatment is disrupted.
Stop the McPherson Square Encampment Evictions. Encampment evictions are life threatening! Negative impacts, including impacts on health, of evictions call for a more constructive and humane approach to truly end homelessness.
Street Health DC retweeted
How can you help someone experiencing homelessness? Call the Friendship Place Street Outreach Hotline: 202-364-8907
Street Health DC retweeted
ACTION ALERT: Tell @SecDebHaaland, @MayorBowser and @CMCHenderson to stop the harmful eviction of 70 of our neighbors living in McPherson Square.
bit.ly/StopMcPherson
Street Health DC retweeted
Encampment evictions are violence. Expediting an eviction of 70 people by 2 months - during hypothermia season and with no contingency plan - will kill people.
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Street Health DC retweeted
ALT Text: Reminder Clearing encampments does nothing to end homelessness and makes ending homelessness even harder. Housing ends homelessness. Displacement doesn't. Pass it on.
Street Health DC retweeted
SOME's Dental Clinic provides both emergency and comprehensive oral care for DC residents who are low income or experiencing homelessness.
Hours of operation are 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call 202-797-8806 to schedule an appointment. We look forward to brightening your smile! 🪥 🦷
Street Health DC retweeted
Thanks again to our Healthy Corners partners @ElmiraMarket & everyone who came out to visit our team on MLK Day as we continue to strengthen bodies, empower minds & build communities here in the District! 🍎🍇🥕#throwbackthursday healthycorners.org #HealthyFoodAccess
Street Health DC retweeted
Oops! Small typo, first line should say "2022". Plz retreat this one
ALT Ending chronic homelessness is life or death In 2022, 72+ of our neighbors died without housing Less than 15% of locally funded vouchers from the last 2 years have been used 84% of those who died were Black People are dying waiting to move into housing. We must act with urgency. Over 60% of our neighbors that died without housing in 2022 were matched to a voucher
Street Health DC retweeted
“You are an important part of the journey home for our community,” said Ceymone Dyce, the vice president of homeless operations at PTHDC.”
Thank you Clarence for speaking with our staff and elevating the voices of our unhoused neighbors!
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