barry zephen. our team cares for people who experience homelessness who are at risk to dieing who are not getting their health needs met by other services. i'm going to present a case. the title of this case is it takes a village. i'm using a supseudonym to protect his identity. john was on s.s.i. disability but somehow this was cutoff. he was homeless about before he came here and came "to get away from trouble." he was initially seen by street health worker shannon in october 2016 during civic center out reach. he was noted to be injecting into public and having several possessions, including electronics and several bicycles in various states of repair. he had a long history of bipolar disorder that had initially been diagnosed when he was an adolescent. he stated his goals were to get or drugs and visit his family back east. he was among the first 20 patients in our low barrier buprenorphine pilot. over the next several months he had numerous police contacts and several periods incarcerated in j

zephen to figure out where they're all going this week and how they can support each other? they're in constant contact and it's a really -- it's a really beneficial relationship to both of our departments and to the clients that they're interacting with. another collaboration point, the encampment response team wor works with d.p.h. to provide very specific health resources to people in the encampments? that includes health fairs, getting people vaccinated, getting people medicated if they are lacking critical medications. they give people access to medical treatment, appointments and referrals, and they bring all of that out to the encampments or to other places where homeless people might be congregating. coordinated entry. so here's our system map, and it's -- we have tried to incorporate how the other departments work within this map with us? so people come to us because they are seeking assistance or because we encounter them out on the streets, an encampment or of course coming and seeking shelter. our street outreach and our mainstream systems, the mainstream systems