Welcome to “Out of the Dust Homeless Outreach”—a site dedicated to helping the public and policymakers understand the inner-workings of homelessness and how to develop effective strategies to address this ongoing problem that affects everyone. Besides resources, wrap-around services, and education, 3 things must be in play to effectively change lives—people must be treated with love, compassion, and feel a connection to someone else. If so, then problems get solved, communities get involved, and hopeless lives evolve.

Our Outreach

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Fixing homelessness is NOT  just about housing people, or helping them overcome addiction and providing adequate mental health services (*although each is vital to success). Lasting change must include measures to change thinking, correct behaviors, and shape life-trajectory to avoid falling back into old ways and ultimately, the streets again.  Doing this entails six areas of life-development:  1) education  2) skills acquisition  3) life-training  4) holistic healing  5) personal accountability and 6) interacting with them in kind, compassionate, strength-based, ‘solutogenic’ ways that increases their capacity for change, individual achievement & emotional connection to others.