Outreach teams are driving up and down Metro Detroit streets, ensuring no one stays outside in the dangerously cold temperatures.
Local 4 was on the road with an outreach team from Covenant House Michigan as they transported people to warming centers Wednesday (Jan. 17).
Stephanie Taylor is the outreach manager at Covenant House Michigan and believes it’s a job that takes a lot of heart.
“We are not exempt from being in a homeless situation, and if anything happens to us, we have children or nieces or nephews, you will want an organization to walk up and say ‘Do you need help,’” said Taylor.
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Her team drives around looking for people to help. Not everyone accepts their offer, but that doesn’t stop them from sharing kindness.
“We got our gloves, we got our hats, just in case they don’t trust us and say, ‘I’m through with shelters, I don’t want to go back,’ we can say, we’re still here just for emergency needs,” Taylor said.
Covenant House Michigan focuses its support on ages 13-24, but age isn’t a factor in these current frigid conditions.
“If you say you’re 25, 26, we not gone say ‘Aww we’re not going to help you,’ we’re going to say, ‘We know where you can go to shelter,’ and we’re going to get you there,” Taylor said.