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The work that highly shop us are does is
not easy as an outreach specialist for the

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homeless his primary focus is what may be
the most difficult group to help those

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with mental illness his work is not only
given housing to countless homeless people

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in the Midlands but has also saved
lives when I first met you.

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Up at three in the morning.
And. Out in the back alley. I

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walk around dumpsters in San Jose What were
you doing with my primary target group

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I bet on house mentally ill.
And. Oppressed by people that

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did not go to the shelter of the meals to
isolate the very guarded and I try to go

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out there and develop

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a truck and we were with them. I tried
to get them engaged back into the

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community helped them get
benefits. Medical. Getting

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a case manager. So

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a lot of my up there are really diagnosed
and so I had to figure out what is

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a partner a problem is

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a drug or alcohol that mental health and
then. Get it connected with those services

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what fraction of the of the on the Housed
are mentally ill that is your so I would

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say thirty some percent are within X.

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One of thirty some thirty some percent are

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a lot of self medicate so they are doing
diagnosis which is what you prefer stupid

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than illness first you prefer the
drug not offer so that is from

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a by person that is doing
the. Final step with

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a psychiatrist and they try to have the
whole process the drugs are on and

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somewhat. What then happens what's the most
mis understood thing about homelessness

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it could happen to anybody. I know people
that through the dot com crisis we had in

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the years that. They end up with

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a car bus or jobs they were in debt of
credit cards because of it all this money

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also gone we're going to do you know get
back credit get bigger get addicted.

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Might start drinking or using
drugs self medicate is

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a big impression because you cut it that's

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a situational depression both start doing
that and you know I mean it could happen

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to anybody you know specially if you have

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a support system. And people look at people
of their own house out there that lazy

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. You know they don't.
Walk in their shoes.