The purpose of street outreach is heavily debated. The core elements of effective street outreach include being systematic, coordinated, comprehensive, housing-focused, person-centered, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, as well as emphasizing safety and reducing harm. Regardless of its form, the essence of street outreach is the desire to meet people where they are at, build deep trust and connections, offer support, and reinforce the human dignity and respect that is deserving of all people.

Street outreach comes in different forms, from people walking around carrying supplies or offering resources, to mobile health clinics with teams of medical volunteers driving around and offering services. There are multiple governmental and non-governmental agencies that have sought to engage in this work because of the understanding that unhoused people tend to have increased barriers to access traditional services. The concept of street outreach to individuals that are experiencing homelessness is a classic example of a form of outreach. Outreach is often meant to fill in the gap in the services provided by mainstream (often governmental) services, and is often carried out by non-profit, nongovernmental organizations. It includes identification of under-served populations and service referral and the use of outreach tools like leaflets, newsletters, advertising stalls and displays, and dedicated events. In addition to delivering services, outreach has an educational role, raising the awareness of existing services. Compared with traditional service providers, outreach services are provided closer to where people may reside, efforts are very often voluntary, and have fewer, if any, enforceable obligations. A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are. All the good I can do from now on will be the vicarious compassion of a woman I consider to be an angel on earth.Outreach is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services. It is now near 800 and eight years later I am now a man who is blessed to offer that compassion to others and I'm lucky to stand in her shadow. The following month my CD4 was 124 and the deep purple lesions had already started to disappear. She had faith where I had solemn resignation. She cared more about me than I did and somehow that made me accept the treatment. Stacy asked me if I'd be willing to take the medication if she could make it so that it didn't make me feel sicker. I was told I was going to die in October and I couldn't bear to extend that deadline. I told them that was the point - to belay my suffering. Other doctors had told me that if I wanted to live I must take medication that would lessen what little quality of life I had left.

I'd gone to see Dr Lane at the behest of my parents. 'This is a photo of a boy months from expiring in 2007, a viral load of 9, riddled with cancer.

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