Outreach Teams

The People Concern’s outreach teams throughout LA County provide people with linkages to resources and services that can help bring them inside for good. Here’re a few examples of our teams and the important work they do every day to help more of our neighbors be housed, healthy and safe.

Pacific Palisades & Malibu

The Pacific Palisades Outreach Team and Malibu Outreach Team are both location-specific two-person outreach teams that engage with people experiencing homelessness in their respective geographic areas. This work is integrated with The People Concern’s broader Westside programming. The TPC Pacific Palisades Outreach Team works with the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness to connect people experiencing homelessness in the community with available food, services, and other needed items, as well as connections to housing when available. The Malibu Team works with the Malibu Task Force on Homelessness to help provide the same services to individuals in Malibu city limits.

HMST

The Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team is a mobile outreach team dedicated to working with the highest utilizers of Emergency Services among people experiencing homelessness of Santa Monica. A multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical staff, they work intensively with each client, providing psychotherapy, medical services, psychiatry, substance abuse counseling, and case management. Court advocacy services, housing coordination, transportation to and from appointments, and more are provided upon need.

C3

C3 Outreach Teams (City, County, and Community) serve people experiencing homelessness living on the streets of Skid Row and in Santa Monica. Employing a disaster relief approach to homelessness, the teams are responsible for outreach to four distinct service quadrants in Skid Row – working to systematically engage vulnerable individuals living on the streets; provide access to resources such as interim housing, urgent care, primary care, mental health services and substance use disorder treatment; and help regain health and housing stability.

E6

In line with the holistic approach of The People Concern, the E6 teams are multidisciplinary street outreach teams focused on connecting with the most vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness who are living on the streets. The teams consist of a mental health clinician, a case manager, a substance abuse case manager, peer (someone with lived experience of homelessness), and a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant in order to provide appropriate mental health, substance abuse, and medical interventions. The teams conduct outreach in SPA 4 communities of Los Angeles County (Hollywood, DTLA, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Westlake, and Mid-City), offering resources and services designed to move individuals into permanent housing.