Serving the Homeless during COVID-19 by Rosolyn Harper

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Speaker 1:
First in the population here. And I will start off with the prayer first and then we’ll get into our presentation. Heavenly father, we come before you just having heavy hearts, Lord Jesus, asking that you give us the heart that you have Lord Jesus, that we will be able to mourn with those that are mourning. Lord Jesus. And weeep with those that are weepy Lord Jesus. We was asked that you’d be in the midst of us and help us to serve our community well. Help us to serve each other.

Speaker 1:
Lord Jesus, we just thank you that you’ve chosen us. Lord Jesus, to allow our life to shine, that we will glorify you and give you the praise of glory and the honor, and the time that we’re sharing today, help it to be glorifying to you in Jesus’ name and we pray.

Speaker 1:
So our objective today will be who, what and how identifying types of homelessness and some of the causes, statistics of homelessness and what does that mean? The supply of homeless shelter and collaboration, cultivating belief, recovery, hope, resources, and who they are.

Speaker 1:
So who is my neighbor is a question that only you can answer. And so if we start off with our main scripture, which is Matthew 25, 35 and 40, it reads, For I was a hunger and you gave me meat, I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in naked and you clothed me.

Speaker 1:
I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer Him saying, Lord, when saw we be a hunger and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink when saw weed, thee stranger and took thee in or naked and closed thee, or when saw weed be sick or in prison and came onto me.

Speaker 1:
And the king shall answer and say unto, unto them, barely I say unto you. And as much as you have done it unto the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me. So we always want to keep that in mind and ponder on that scripture and knowing that we are called to serve others as we, when we serve Christ, we’re serving others.

Speaker 1:
So a little bit of history about homelessness. Homelessness has been around in the recorded in the US since the 1640s, the disabled and the widows often had dependent children and were unable to provide for themselves or the family. We are also given a charge in the Bible that we should care for the widows and the orphans in the 1850s.

Speaker 1:
The first record of homeless children were also on the streets because their guardians cannot care for them. In the 1930s, the great depression caused a lot of working men and women to be classified as homeless.

Speaker 1:
The United nation, estimated that there were more than 1 million homeless people by the mid 1980s, 2.3 was from the us alone. And there was also a study in 2003 that indicated that a quarter of homeless people were from the closing of the mental institutions from 1970s.

Speaker 1:
Again, some more statistics shows that in 1948, the United nation passed a universal declaration of human rights and says that everyone has the right to standard living adequate of health and wellbeing for himself and for his family, 155 nations agreed. And they also signed. And in 1977, England passed a homeless person act. And 10 years later, the US followed and signed the McKinney dental homeless assistant act, which provides basic needs for the homeless.

Speaker 1:
Homeless has came a long way since that point in time. However, we still have a growing need when we consider that if people have a lack of money or resources, it creates a bad situation, but when people have both a crisis is created. So that brings us to understand that there is a gap.

Speaker 1:
The US has a shortage of seven million rental homes for affordable living for the extremely low income renters. And so that creates homelessness in itself. So again, there’s a gap and the homeless services system do not have enough resources to fill the needs of everyone experienced homelessness. Thus, it is helpful to examine the difficult decisions that they have to make, including how to a lot the limited funds available to them. So it is difficult when we say that the government has money.

Speaker 1:
And so why is there a home homeless crisis or issue? So temporary housing over the last five years, the number of temporary housing for beds, including emergency shelters, safe Haven, and transitional living has decreased by 9% creating that need. So here we have the capacity to serve. So number of homeless people versus number of available beds in this data is since 2019, that was the most recent information that is available out there.

Speaker 1:
So we have best shortage and Surplus for individuals. Obviously we can see that there is a difference of 192,000, almost 193,000 of shortage just for individuals. And then if we look at the families, we have the 15,179, which that shows that there, we do have a surplus, but a lot of people sometimes do not want to go to shelters with their children.

Speaker 1:
And so they kind of prefer to live in their cars or go from home to home or relative to relatives for the youth. We are in shortage of 552 beds. And that could be a lot of different reasons. Why, because we do have some youth that obviously is in shelter, I mean in foster care system, but we also have some youth that don’t want to say that they’re homeless.

Speaker 1:
And so with that, when we don’t have data to support that there is a need for it. That’s where shortages come in at here is another total of experiencing per year. So in 2007 is when they start collecting this data. And then we have 2019 is our current year.

Speaker 1:
And we have the overall individual people and families, chronic homeless individuals, veterans, and the unaccompanied youth. And we understand that is anyone under the age of 18 that has not been emancipated. And so here we show that we have almost 600,000 folks that does, that is experiencing homelessness.

BRIAN:
Is that nationwide or just California, or

Speaker 1:
This is US. Yes.

BRIAN:
Thank you.

Speaker 1:
All right. And so here is account by gender. And again, the latest that we have is 2019. And so we there’s majority of male that is well greater than the females. We have 343,187, a male that is homeless and female is 219 911. And then we have the transgender and then we have the nonconforming transition, transgender figures here.

Speaker 1:
And so this is just a breakdown. So it’s nothing different than what I kind of shared here. And the otherwise I just wanted to go by gender and here, since the COVID 19 in San Diego, this one is a little outdated because unfortunately since yesterday it does show that there are about 81,000 cases of COVID related. And there’s I think 280 death as of yesterday, I believe, but the COVID 19. It, says that will predict, predict that the number of COVID cases will arise among people experienced homelessness in the nation’s counties and our county in San Diego.

Speaker 1:
And most of you, well, all of you here that have joined in is from San Diego. And so when we talk about the homeless population, there was a, there has been thousands of hotel rooms that has been reserved for anyone who was symptomatic and experience homelessness or unable to from their family and healthcare workers on onsite for support.

Speaker 1:
And this was important because there was a lot of homeless folks that did not really want to be sheltered or couldn’t find the right support for them. And so those people that had some type of symptomatic and to try to prevent the more spread among the homeless population, they had reserved hotel rooms where folks can go and get the care that they need versus going from person to person to spread.

Speaker 1:
So I thought that was really unique because when it first started and the stay of home order was put in place, those people that were experiencing homelessness, and we had to shut down our emergency shelter, it was like, “where do these folks go?”

Speaker 1:
And so those that were symptomatic or those that were using our shelter as a place. And so they also opened up the convention center, which housed a lot of folks and provided a lot of wraparound services. And so those people that ordinary that we could not connect to were able to be connected to some services.

Speaker 1:
So I think that was one of the good things that came out of the COVID 19. So compared to the previous year, homelessness increased by 3% in the 90, in the 2019 point of time con count. And this marked the third year straight of national level increases. But despite this negative movement, the long term trend has been downward. And overall homeless had decreased by 12%, since 2007, the years nationwide data collection, but began as I had shared that before, but the current COVID prices has the potential to diminish or completely wipe out these modest gains.

Speaker 1:
But again, I believe the upside about that is those folks that was not open to getting help, did get a wraparound approach, especially those that went to the convention center. And so there is basically four categories of the homelessness and we have the chronic, the episodic, the transitional, and the hidden homelessness.

Speaker 1:
And so the chronic homelessness, it talks about if someone has been homeless for over a year, then, or longer than a year, then they will be categorized as the chronic homelessness. And many times people are struggling with chronic homelessness. It’s because they’re having a hard time fighting their way out of something, rather it is addiction, or is it some type of trauma that they can get over PTSD. They have a mental illness, physical disability and it’s typically with older population. And then we have the episodic, which means that it is someone that’s been homeless for three times during a year.

Speaker 1:
And the fourth time they will be identified as chronic homelessness. And it’s usually affecting younger folks that are struggling with some kind of health issue or addiction. And then typically that kind of becomes their norm. And when they become the chronic, typically that is because that is their lifestyle, the transitional homelessness. And this is one of the most common types of homelessness. This form of homelessness is defying as affecting a person in going through a major life event or catastrophic event.

Speaker 1:
Many times when people lose their job suddenly, or they are fleeing from unsafe environment or situation, as we know, could be domestic violence. Then most of those are folks that are in transition. And then we also have the hidden homelessness. And that one often goes unreported because these individuals are couch surfing they’re depending on their relatives and friends to find them a place to stay and hidden.

Speaker 1:
Homelessness also includes the LBGT population, because a lot of their population is they don’t really want to go into shelters because they not, their fear of other people that are leery of what you would say , a cure poor, or those folks that are homophobic. And they believe that will create an unsafe place for them.

Speaker 1:
And so they don’t seek housing or shelters because they just don’t know they’re in fear. And so those folks that don’t get resources or services are not included in the national statistics. So those numbers could be greater than what we even report. And so before we go, I have a, a two minute clip I want to share with us. Hopefully we’ll be able to see it, but it is important that when we’re asking folks for help, that we speak their language. If we see some folks on the street that we don’t just assume that they want our help, or they don’t. We don’t assume that what we’re giving them is something that they want. We need to speak with them as if they are people they are important.

Speaker 1:
So language manners, and oftentimes people talk about the homeless as if. It is their identity. Homelessness is a description of their current living situation. And so when we talk about language, it is important in order to have people maintain their dignity. And we are treating people with respect, but this is one of the ways that I’m going to share this two minute clip about how one aspect of our population can become homeless. So here it goes,

TARA:
How can you avoid becoming homeless? Easy. Just don’t do anything ever.

TARA:
Hey guys, Tara here for news. And if you’ve ever visited any major city in America, then you know that homelessness is a growing problem here. The city of San Francisco spends 200 million every single year, trying to get homeless people off the streets. And while many attribute their lifestyle to laziness or drug addiction or dwindling economy, a new study says that traumatic brain injuries could be an underlying cause.

TARA:
A team of researchers at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto, looked at data from 111 homeless men, age 27 to 81, and found that almost half of them had experienced a traumatic brain injury at some point during their lives. And 87% of them occurred before the men lost their homes.

TARA:
Some had multiple brain injuries with assaulting overwhelmingly the most common cause sports related injuries and motor vehicle collisions were also huge contributors. But for men under age 40, the number one most common cause of brain injury was a fall resulting from drug or alcohol related blackouts.

TARA:
Now, this brings up an interesting dilemma because it’s already been shown that traumatic late an injury leads to aggressive behavior, violence and impulsivity, but by the same token aggression and impulse control disorders increase the likelihood of traumatic brain injuries. So it’s kind of a chicken and egg situation where both polys exist and they just perpetuate one another, of course, there’s no arguing that these kinds of injuries worsen preexisting conditions, a 2008 study from a different group showed that traumatic brain injuries increased the likelihood of seizures, mental health problems, drug problems, and overall, or physical health.

TARA:
This challenges, the notion that being homeless is a conscious decision, but it should also serve as a warning sign to parents whose children have sustained traumatic head injuries, just because someone looks okay on the outside does not mean they’re okay on the inside. And that is good advice for all of us as always, if you have questions or comments about this episode, feel free to leave them down below and more episodes of the news subscribe here.

Speaker 1:
So that could be surprising for some folk that have the notion that people are homeless because by choice. And so we really need to take heat and to understand that behind every person there is a story. And so it is important that we leave that space for people to be able to tell their story before we judge them, or have some kind of notion of why someone is homeless.

TARA:
How can you avoid becoming Homeless?

Speaker 1:
Okay. So to tackle of the problem. So we’re talking about planning, establish the plan, helps communities set goals and conceptualize what they should prioritize using local data to inform decision about how to most effectively allocate resources, service, and program to best address the needs of those experience and homeless in the community.

Speaker 1:
So it’s about not just saying that there’s a problem with homeless. We know that we can walk on the streets downtown, but not only downtown. I mean, it’s really prevalent in San Diego and most major cities that you come across, but it is about getting together and goals and understanding what the need is.

Speaker 1:
A plan can include goals, a process, a timeline for meeting those goals and mechanism for evaluating progress. It is very important because unfortunately we don’t have billions of dollars just to throw out, throw out at the problem without being able to say what the need is and how to measure the progress, because we don’t want to just keep digging holes. We want to make sure that we are affectingly tackling the pro the problem.

Speaker 1:
So planning also provides provider government, officials, and continual care leaders and funders to get together, to address public topics, such as how to identify the needs of the population, the size on the structure of coordinated assessments, integrate prevent prevention and shelter, diversion resources, map out existing assessments and intake processes, and sketch out preliminary needs, assessments and screening tunes.

Speaker 1:
There’s going to be a couple of more slides, and I’m going to kind of get into details a little bit about that in a moment. Housing as a solution. Yes, we understand that housing is a solution, but is it that easy? So when housing is a platform, people with substance abuse and mental disorders experience, homelessness can engage in treatment fully without additional stress of living on the streets. So housing stability is a key contributor to long term recovery, and it reduces relapse for people who are homeless.

Speaker 1:
Sometimes when, and those people that have medication for, we talk about mental disorder. When they’re on the streets, a lot of them lose their medication, their medication is stolen and then they become medicated compliance.

Speaker 1:
Or even if they have a physical disability when they’re diabetic and they have their insulin, that has to be maintained at a certain temperature, typically should be refrigerated. And so if it’s not, how do they maintain their compliance? When we think of why people maybe become alcoholics or have a substance abuse challenge, it may not only because of the way that they were brought up.

Speaker 1:
And we also learned it could be a brain injury, but have we considered some folks start drinking because at night they’re cold and they’re homeless and they use alcohol to warm them up, or they can start using drugs because the group of folks that they are getting their protection from, because they’re out there, they’re vulnerable, they’re by themselves. And the folks that has came to their aid maybe to… Kind of came to their rescue at one point, they use drugs.

Speaker 1:
And so in order to stay connected to that source of protection, they might start to use drugs themselves. So there’s different factors. And it is important that if we can use housing as a platform where folks don’t have to worry about how they’re going to take their medication, or, if they’re going to lose their protection, if they don’t use drugs and I want to get clean, but I don’t have the right environment to do so, we can use housing as a platform for that.

Speaker 1:
And for the chronically homeless people, the intervention and permanent supporting housing, provide a stable environment connected with also supportive services and also training for the consumer and the provider. And we’ll talk about that a little bit.

Speaker 1:
This next slide we want to kind of talk about the coordinated system approach… Can also in homelessness and so on your screen, if you can see consumer provider and resources that could, if we work together, it could possibly and homelessness, but what are some other things that we believe is important to end this?

Speaker 1:
What do we need in order to tackle this? What are some of the ingredients that we can think of? and Brian, if you all could think of something and I mute your screen, since there’s only two of us, a few of us, we could kind of share any thoughts,

BRIAN:
Ways to end homelessness. Is that what you were asking?

Speaker 1:
Yes. What, do you think?

BRIAN:
Housing? I agree with your point. Housing is a very important component of reducing homelessness. Absolutely. Getting treatment for addiction is another one. For those, like you said, there’s different categories of homelessness. So each person needs a little bit different support,

Speaker 1:
Right?

BRIAN:
So those are two, one you mentioned was housing. Absolutely. So, yeah. And then drug treatment, I think what else I agree with you that the convention center has been helpful for a lot of them, I believe, but hopefully they’re able to get something when they start sending people out of the convention center in a month, couple months, hopefully they have a plan. It sounds like, they’re working on it to go. So that’s good.

Speaker 1:
So I’ll just throw in a couple of, we need to have sustainable programs. So most often we come up with these bright ideas, but we don’t have anything to sustain the program. And so sometimes people are hesitant to get into some kind of supportive programs because it’s not going to last. And then, where do they go funding? Obviously we need money and funding. And it’s also about the language that we get people to even think about going into getting the help and support that they need.

Speaker 1:
Because we have a lot of folk that don’t know how to talk to those that are experienced homelessness. Sometimes we, unfortunately there’s folks that look down their nose at people. They say that they’re lazy.

Speaker 1:
They don’t want to get help. They don’t appreciate the help. And that can be something that’s also important. Trust is another thing I would think of that is important. It has to be trust of a consumer that they are trusting the provider.

Speaker 1:
The provider also has to be, their description of the Bible that talks about season with grace. How do we answer? How do we respond to people of need? And so it is important and we need to be trained in order to respond to the needs of our community. So there was just a few of those things that I kind of thought about trauma, inform care. It’s a modality that is important that we learn and have the premise of understanding that it’s really not, what’s wrong with the person, but it’s, what’s happened to that person. And so those are just some of the elements that I thought we could share that is important. Some elements, not only money, but some elements of how to end homelessness.

BRIAN:
I think building a relationship with them is important too, because most people like you just mentioned to elaborate on what you said is people label the homeless and they, they marginalize them and label them and dismiss them.

BRIAN:
And so the first step, I think, which is kind of, you touched on it absolutely is acknowledging that they exist and making them human again. And then building that relationship is something I know the hot team works on downtown. The homeless outreach team with the police is building that relationship just week after week, day after day.

BRIAN:
And once you build that trust, you mentioned trust. Absolutely. Once they trust you, then you’re able to bring them into programs and therapy and counseling, and then work on those issues to reduce that homelessness population and then getting them housing as well. So I agree with, yeah, everything you’d said, that’s, it’s really good.

Speaker 1:
Yeah, I like it. Yeah. So we do have a screen or slide that talks about how we all come together. And it is important that in order to end the homeless, the solution is about building relationships. So we need to represent the faces of our community. We need to go out into the community, build trust, establish relationships, engage those, and provide a safe space where we listen and people are ready to tell their stories, because if they don’t feel that we are in it with them in this plight and they still feel alone, then we will have the possibility of all the money that we raise. And the government has given us, or people have donated. We’re going to build a bunch of state-of-the-art buildings and, but the problem will continue and it may become worse.

Speaker 1:
So we need to work with our community and let folks know that we understand, and it’s not about what’s wrong with them, but it’s about what happened. And when they’re ready to tell their story, we need to meet people where they are. Because if we don’t serve with acting us as an ambassador for Christ, then we’re going to just have these empty building with no one to house them in.

Speaker 1:
So it is important that we navigate this out in the community before we try to bring folk in. So I’m glad you brought that up, we do want to continue to, I guess, drive that point home because it is important. So thank you for participating in that. So our coordinated entry, and this is about once we get people out from, of the streets and into our buildings, we need to have an assessment part. We need to have what is called the intake process. We need to identify their needs, and it’s not about us having people fit into a program, but it’s about having a program fit for the person.

Speaker 1:
We sometimes come up with a lot of different, great ideas that do not represent the faces of our community and people are put off, because we’re not asking them what they need and what they want. We just see that they are, are cluttering it up our community, that they’re out on the streets and they should be grateful to have a place to come into. But it’s not about that. It’s about how do we pay the way for more efficiency? How do we build those relationships once we got them from the outside to the inside.

Speaker 1:
So making sure that our assessments are trauma informed care as well, and we’re helping people move through the system faster than saying that you got to do this. You got to do that in order for me to give you housing. And so San Diego, I won’t say only San Diego because it’s nationwide that has a program that’s called housing first.

Speaker 1:
And it’s not about again, having a person fit a program, but having the program fit the person. And so reducing new entries into homelessness by consistently offering prevention and diversion resources upfront, not having them go through these hoops, improving data collection and quality and providing accurate information of what kind of assistant consumer needs again, representing the faces of our community is important.

Speaker 1:
So the efforts to come together and end homelessness, we have our outreach, which we already kind of talked about that our coordinated entry, which we just shared divergence and prevention we’re talking about is important components of our community crisis response and can help reduce the size of homeless population prevention assistance can aid household and preserving their current housing situation.

Speaker 1:
So having people being able not ask for help before it’s become a crisis and connecting them with the right services. So that’s important that we, as a community talk to each other, we don’t work on islands. We work together as a team and seeing how we can either refer somebody that maybe not be good for the services that I’m offering.

Speaker 1:
I don’t really like the word program. I like to try to come up with another word that works with folks, because when you think about programs, some people could say, you’re trying to, indoctrinating me. You’re trying to program me. You’re trying to… There’s some other words out there manipulate me and all those kind of things.

Speaker 1:
So that’s just my own personal thing about programs, but however, we need to connect folk with services and emergency shelters and interim housing, and also permanent housing, rapid housing, permanent supporting housing and other state stable housing options.

Speaker 1:
And so that can be transitional housing here at San Diego rescue mission. So here is, I’m just going to share about this and I’ll talk about San Diego rescue mission, because we’re kind of about almost at a time, but here working together, we have the law enforcement.

Speaker 1:
We have the community support partners. We have the CIE which connect all the teams together. Two one one has been great support during the COVID 19, they have really stepped up their gain path to housing income housing subsidies, working with section eight and things of that nature. Basic needs, Cal French, Cal cash, aids, hygiene, financial education and healthcare.

Speaker 1:
We got to meet the whole need of the person. So it’s not about, if they have a drug problem, then they need to go here. We should be able to have these services working together as a team. And so I think that is also important. And so here at the mission, we have different, we are kind of changed our language again.

Speaker 1:
And we’re talking about, we are targeting the college experience. So it’s called mission academy where people come in and they’re going through different semesters on wellbeing and meeting their needs.

Speaker 1:
So we would talk about if they haven’t had a doctor examination, they haven’t been to the dentists. They need me medication management. We’ll send them folks in that first semester to those entities.

Speaker 1:
If they need mental health, then they’re connecting with our services here and seeing how we can work together as a team. We also do job training, getting them basic skills on how to deal with their finances, how to get a job, how to keep a job doing resume building and things of that nature as well.

Speaker 1:
And they’ll have classes here and workshops. And then they also are connected with the San Diego community college, the continuation of education program, where they get certificates.

Speaker 1:
And if they want to go into air conditioning, college, childcare, county, different certificates, we have a partnership with the ECC and community of education to try to connect these folks and relearning some ideas,their arts and their crafts and their skills are what they want to do when they leave here.

Speaker 1:
And then we have our transitional, which is called graduate housing. So once they finish all of the semesters, they’re able to go into grad housing, our emergency shelter. We try to build upon that so they can come to our shelter for 30 days. And from there they can graduate into the mission academy. And so hopefully we will adjust according to the assessment and the needs of each person.

Speaker 1:
So again, it’s about that training of individuals on how to connect with our folks, to meet the needs of our community and represent those, faces. Especially when folks first come to the door, we also have a new program that’s called walk with me.

Speaker 1:
And so we are partnership with, I think it’s 15 different churches that will go out into the community and learn their story and talk about building those relationships and connecting folks with the right partners. And so they won’t necessarily always come to the mission, they might need to go to a crisis house or they might need to go to path or they might need to go to stepping stones or Keva, whatever it is.

Speaker 1:
And so we’re trying to form more partnership working together in order to meet the needs of our community. Again, we want to hear folks a story because I think that’s where the relationship building and building that trust is going to… Of course, we’re not going to be able to get absolutely everybody off the streets, but as a coordinated effort, we can always try to meet the needs of folks, but people don’t really care what you know, until they know that you care.

Speaker 1:
And so when we talk about connection and working with people’s gifts and things of that nature, I’m going to close it off with a, another clip. As you listen to it, please keep in mind that it’s about relationships and hearing people’s story. So hopefully this is something that’s encouraging to you. If you haven’t heard it or before, please bear with me, try to enjoy it. And you have heard it bear with me and then we will wrap it up. So here it goes. And hopefully it works. If not, I’m going to have to, okay. Here it goes.

TARA:
It says that nine minutes I’ll stop it at We’re right now could be a, it could be, it could be things right here. Are you guys ready to keep going? Here we go. America talent. Now it show them what all the big one.

Speaker 8:
Hello? Hello.

TARA:
Welcome. Hello. And tell me the name of the choir, please.

Speaker 8:
This is the voices of our city choir. Yep. It’s a choir.

Speaker 8:
I started about four years ago for people experiencing homelessness in San Diego. Oh, wow. Yeah. One amazing ideas. There are so many people in sheltered in my neighborhood. I met musicians and singers and I was like, wow, we could put together a group and sing together. Yeah. There’s people who are in the choir. They can’t afford medicine. They can’t afford rent. So we help them out. But, and through the money that we raised, we’ve helped people get off the street. Wow. Wow.

CASEY:
I’m Casey. I’ve been homeless on and off since I was 18.

MARK:
My name is mark and I’ve been homeless for seven years.

derek:
My name is Derek. I’ve been homeless since 2012,

TERESA:
My names Teresa. I experienced homelessness on the age of 18 up to now, homelessness. Doesn’t just fit one skin color, one age bracket. It’s hard trying to get it together. And people look at you like you’re dirty. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences out there. Beat up Robbed. Yes.

TERESA:
But who is going to listen to me? I’ve met people who were having to fight for their life. I wanted to help. That’s when I started the choir read. I thank God for voices of our city choir. Somebody wants to hear from me. And I be saying loud.

Speaker 10:
If it wasn’t for the choir, wouldn’t here choirs brought back and give me a moment. Yeah.

Speaker 8:
You guys represent so many people yeah. Who are underrepresented or not represented the arts saved me in so many ways. And let me tell you are going to be encouraged and inspire. So this has changed my life.

Speaker 11:
When I look at the choir, I just feel their voice is being heard.

Speaker 12:
What’s the song you going to do?

Speaker 11:
The choir actually wrote the song. We have a songwriting champ.

Speaker 12:
Okay, good. Let’s see what happens in the next two or threes. Awesome.

Speaker 1:
So I’m going to stop it there. There’s a link if anybody wanted to look at the entire disab, about almost over the end of it is really amazing as well. But just to give you some contents about how we, it is important that our city on the sidewalk is speaking and it is the facet of different faces of our people.

Speaker 1:
And people’s story need to be heard. So with that being said, I know we’re over time. So thank you for your attention and your time. And God bless you. If you have any questions, we have maybe one minute that we can respond to that. Or if you want more information, you can always contact me or Brian and we can get that information to you. Again, God bless you and stay well and stay safe.

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Serving the Homeless during COVID 19 by Rosolyn Harper