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Candace Pitvor

Homelessness: A Day in the Life of a Street Outreach Worker

Candace Pitvor September 1, 2019

Homelessness is an issue that continues to impact our community that affects so many people from diverse walks of life. And, it can happen to anyone at any given time. Not too many people choose to be homeless as it is scary, stressful, unsafe, unhealthy, unpleasant, nasty, and extremely exhausting. Homelessness can relate to people living life out on the streets, in abandoned buildings, parks or on park benches, couch surfing and in shelters. This paper brings into light my personal involvement in working with people who experience homelessness, mental health and addiction.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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