Summary: Homeless Outreach Team

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• Steve Wick doesn’t just patrol people on the streets of Huston, he befriends them. This sergeant helps run the city’s Homeless Outreach Team in Houston. The Homeless Outreach Team, is within the police department’s mental health division. There are four officers, sergeant Wick, and three mental health case workers, has helped moved more than 400 people off the streets and into temporary or permanent housing since 2011. In the city of Houston, Homeless Outreach Team, also known as HOT, as partnered with over dozens of local organizations that provide a host of service from housing and healthcare to ID and job opportunities to the homeless community. “All these folks in the street are not bad, these are people that need somebody to take to,