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  • Vancouver's Safe Environment for Drug Addicts

    Vince Beiser

    October 27, 2008 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    In the midst of high rates of drug abuse, Vancouver’s city government has instituted harm reduction programs. These include a safe site for drug users, needle exchanges, changes in policing of drug use, and providing measured doses of drugs to users.

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  • Blocking the Transmission of Violence

    Alex Kotlowitz

    May 04, 2008 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In the earliest days of what has become the Cure Violence model of violence prevention using street-outreach mediators, the Chicago CeaseFire group began hiring former gang members and people recently released from prison because of their credibility on the street. They "interrupt" violence, mediating conflicts to prevent escalation to gunfire, based on a public-health rationale that sees the spread of violence in epidemiological terms. The organization overcame skepticism when an early study showed its methods reduced violence by 16-27% more than in neighborhoods it hadn't worked in.

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  • The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

    Kevin Fagan Brent Ward

    October 29, 2006 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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  • Reaching into a void: For mayor's team of street crusaders, getting the chronically homeless into housing requires patience as they battle their addictions -- and persistence if they relapse

    Kevin Fagan

    December 06, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.

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  • Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

    Kevin Fagan

    June 14, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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  • Success in the City of Brotherly Love / The city that knows how - Philly Philadelphia / Effort stems tide of homelessness -- can S.F. learn from it?

    Kevin Fagan

    June 13, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia reduced chronic homelessness by coordinating outreach through a centralized office and providing immediate access to housing and services such as counseling and drug rehabilitation. San Francisco is studying the model.

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