Hope-Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement

Emergency assistance - this program provides many services including medical respite - a safe place to heal for those with no indoor place to recover. This health-focused service is an important link in the transition out of homelessness for many people, and hope is the only agency in longmont to offer this type of aid. Illness or injury does not have to disrupt a homless person's progress toward self-sufficiency. If feasible, we allow the medical respite participants to convalesce at the nighttime navigation center. If that is not a feasible options, hope purchase nights at a hotel for the medical respite participant. The target population is people experiencing homelessness in longmont who need medical respite due to a serious medical issue that would be exacerbated by being on the streets. Partipants must be referred to hope by a medical professional.

Street outreach: volunteers reach out day and night to meet people where they are found in parks, at the library, or on the streets in order to provide food, basic supplies and information about resources. This service is crucial in connecting and building relationships with people who may fly under the radar otherwise, or who may need to re-connect with hope programs. The target population is anyone experiencing homelessness in longmont. The organization's lthere street outreach program is on the streets of longmont 20 hours a week and helped 1,448 of those experiencing homelessness with resources and food, as well as assistance with vital documents towards housing. An outreach center serves as hope's hub for individuals experiencing homelessness to acquire case management, resources, and food insecurity and personal needs.