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Hands-On Help


SOS! Richmond improves encampment and neighborhood living conditions through ​direct service, ​engagement, advocacy, and collaborations.

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Streets Teams
Unsheltered people are employed on our Streets Teams to respond to neighborhood problems such as illegal dumping.  Streets Team staff serve as land stewards and role models, and engage in continuous community engagement with encampment residents.​​  This work benefits both the community and the workers. 
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"I help run the showers, and work on the streets team on Friday. This is my first actual job with a regular paycheck. I like the people I work with, and it’s great having a job. I make $15.50 an hour. " 
  - Sasha Allen, encampment resident and SOS employee

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Shower Power
Our mobile shower trailer, staffed by unsheltered people, brings hygiene and other necessities to people at various locations across West County on a rotating basis. 

"I love helping people get showers. Some people told me they haven't had a shower in 8 months. One man told me he wasn't sure he could walk as far as the shower trailer, so I pushed him there in his wheelchair.”
  - Buddy Bennett, encampment resident and SOS employee

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​Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
SOS! Richmond provides and maintains low-cost portable hand-washing stations at encampment locations, filling an immediate and high priority request from residents.   SOS partners with public and private entities to provide portable toilets, trash removal, and other essential sanitation services.
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“We sleep in our truck in the front seat. We’re both on social security. We don’t make enough money to consider buying or renting anything. We just want someplace where we can cook, have running water and use the restroom.” 
  - Amilee Smith, encampment  resident


NEIGHBOR CARE LINE:  510.806.8650
Call the Neighborhood Care Line to reach a member of the SOS Richmond Outreach Team for help engaging collaboratively with our unhoused neighbors.  Leave a message  to express your concerns about a situation you observe or experience.  To help an unhoused individual get services, call CORE - Coordinated Outreach Referral Engagement Program - for the mobile homeless outreach team at 211. 
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