Tenderloin walk 4/04/24

  • Outreach walk

Metrics

How many people did we serve and what are their demographics?

  • 35 total people, 10 of them were housed

  • Roughly 50% knew about YWAM already

  • Mostly 30-50 years olds, about 1/3 were women and 2/3 were men

  • Mostly from SF or the Bay area

  • They stay outside or in SROs in the Tenderloin

Is follow up needed?

If so, who will follow up and when?

If so, who will follow up and when?

As soon as we see him. Especially if the brother seems receptive to reconnecting.

Team Debriefing

Conduct a debriefing session with the outreach team after your street outreach walk or event.

Observations from the walk

Kyle saw G, the first unhoused friend he made when moving to SF.

He used to offer G a coffee on his walks. Later he found out that G doesn’t like coffee.

Introduction to a totally different world. What do people actually need or want?

Challenges

  • There was a time where someone who knew a regular, and his brother also came in looking for him, and offering to pay for him to join the best recovery program in the area. He declined.

  • This person was rationalizing not going to recovery: good desire to rationalize bad action

  • His reasoning was, "I love what’s going on at YWAM and I want to stay here and help them"

  • “My son needs me” so he would need to stay in that neighborhood.

  • “I want you to be a good Dad, we all want you to be a good Dad.”- Kent

  • “We don’t want you to compound trauma.” (drugs and mental health)

Surprises

  • Playing grateful dead is a great conversation starter

  • Mike knows Tony from YWAM’s pop up church

  • He goes to Healing Well across the street

  • They offer Yoga, Breathing exorcise, and art classes

Learnings

  • Bombas donating socks in the TL has changed the foot health of the Tenderloin

  • “Nobody else has asked me for socks ever in my life.” -Mike

  • Yra from Issenguard has another solution for poor TL foothealth

  • Anti Fungal creme- they sent them to Ukraine

  • Group of 10 people- wash their feet and put the creme on every day

  • Goal is to give Bombas Socks an award at some point

  • There has been a great shift, where people come in for relationships vs resources


Name

Tenderloin walk 4/04/24

Description

The team went out and stayed on Ellis Street for this month's walk. We met a man who is trying to find his brother. We served coffee to 35 neighbors in the Tenderloin and encouraged them to come back to YWAM for community events.

Captains

Coordinator

Kent

Date

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2024

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