Equipped with naloxone kits, needles and push sticks, Vancouver's new youth outreach team looks in tents and SROs for homeless teenagers, and tries to connect them with services.
that includes mental health, substance use, nursing and psychiatry specialists; and youth short term assessment and response teams that provide outreach in community and in-reach into hospitals.Article content
“These are young people, by and large, who have experienced a lot of trauma and instability, and transactional relationships in their lives,” Charlesworth said. The workers “just know how to build relationships over time and earn their trust.”He was homeless and, by his own description, his life “had no control,” when he met ICM clinician Joan Kennedy two years ago in Strathcona Park, where he was sleeping in a tent.
“Helped me get connected with the Gastown vocational school, so I can get more work experience and get more training for my future so I can have a job.” “Meet them once, maybe they don’t really want to work with anything or have any involvement at that moment. But then throughout time just dropping in on them, saying, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ Not pressuring them in any type of way,” he said. “Then we can start working on things slowly, so it’s at their pace.”
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