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Nonprofit that helps homeless with jobs, housing has its eye on Modesto
BY KEVIN VALINE
kvaline@modbee.com
August 19, 2018 01:25 PM
A nonprofit that provides volunteer work and services for the homeless might come to Modesto. The Downtown Streets Team program started in Palo Alto in 2005 and has since spread to nearly a dozen Northern California communities.
The homeless people in the program can volunteer as many as 20 hours a week cleaning up parks, downtowns and other public spaces. DST provides the homeless with case management to connect them with services and an employment specialist who helps them find work.
The nonprofit does not provide the homeless with money. Instead, they receive what Downtown Streets Team Chief Program Officer Chris Richardson calls basic-needs stipends, including grocery store gift cards, or the nonprofit could buy a homeless person a cell phone or bus passes or pay for other essentials.
