Homeless Tent Camps in Dallas and Churches Using Housing First, Tiny Homes, and Art to Help People.

I found it hard to come up with a title that can express all the important points this video touches. From faith-based organizations using housing first and having medical clinics for our homeless transgender friends to the realities of living in a homeless tent city and how when governments close down a tent camp doing so does not solve homelessness! There is a lot of information in this video! On a recent trip to Dallas, CitySquare invited me to join them as they provided outreach services to homeless people in tent camps! What I did not know is that CitySquare is a Christian ministry that...wait for it...uses housing first! In fact, recently CitySquare helped 75 people out of the camps directly into housing in just 89 days using the housing first model. That is amazing! I visited two tent communities in Dallas with CitySquare's outreach team. In the last bunch of years, I have toured many tent camps, but for some reason, this experience messed me up more than usual. We then traveled to visit the Stewpot which is another Christian ministry working to help homeless people in Dallas. The Stewpot provides identification and birth certificate services. I learned that n Dallas if a police officer asks for ID it's the law that you provide it. The Stewpot as has a new dental clinic and a medical clinic that one day a week turns into a clinic for transgender folks! Yup, a church helping our LGBTQ friends! Really AWESOME! But that's not all! The Stewpot also has an art program that is beyond any similar program I have visited. Like my visit with the faith community in Traverse City a few weeks prior, this visit with CitySquare and the Stewpot greatly encouraged me. As homelessness gets worse and government support keeps being reduced, I strongly believe that the burden to help people will fall on the faith-based community. Special thanks to: CitySquare https://www.citysquare.org The Stewpot http://thestewpot.org ________________________________________________ Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/c/invisiblepe... Invisible People's website: http://invisiblepeople.tv Support Invisible People: https://invisiblepeople.tv/donate On Patreon:   / invisiblepeople   Invisible People's Social Media:    / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeopletv   Mark Horvath's Twitter:   / hardlynormal   About Invisible People: Since its launch in November 2008, Invisible People has leveraged the power of video and the massive reach of social media to share the compelling, gritty, and unfiltered stories of homeless people from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The vlog (video blog) gets up close and personal with veterans, mothers, children, layoff victims and others who have been forced onto the streets by a variety of circumstances. Each week, they're on InvisiblePeople.tv, and high traffic sites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, proving to a global audience that while they may often be ignored, they are far from invisible. Invisible People goes beyond the rhetoric, statistics, political debates, and limitations of social services to examine poverty in America via a medium that audiences of all ages can understand, and can't ignore. The vlog puts into context one of our nation's most troubling and prevalent issues through personal stories captured by the lens of Mark Horvath – its founder – and brings into focus the pain, hardship and hopelessness that millions face each day. One story at a time, videos posted on InvisiblePeople.tv shatter the stereotypes of America's homeless, force shifts in perception and deliver a call to action that is being answered by national brands, nonprofit organizations and everyday citizens now committed to opening their eyes and their hearts to those too often forgotten. Invisible People is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the way we think about people experiencing homelessness.