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Street Outreach

We take the time to get to know the women we serve during street outreaches, where we provide shampoo, conditioner, feminine hygiene supplies and other basic necessities of life.

But what is outreach exactly?

It’s when an agency goes “out” into the street to “reach” their target population instead of having people come to their offices.​

Outreach is the main way we reach women on the street.

THE INS AND OUTS OF BEING A REFERRAL AGENCY

Since we don't offer services like housing, behavioral health and rehab ourselves, we refer the women to other agencies and nonprofits.

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At the moment when outreach groups like ours do a referral — for things such as housing, mental health or rehab  — one of two things happens:

  1. We call the next agency(s) we are sending them to and try to find a spot for the client

  2. We give the client the name of the next agency and have them call

 

Neither of these work well for several different reasons, many of which I'm sure you can guess.

 

This is part of what Asur is trying to fix.

 

There has to be a better way to do this, one that includes a "warm" handoff to another agency or, at the very least, giving the client a complete "flow chart" of what needs to happen.

 

Long story short, we don't know what a "good referral" looks like yet. But we are trying.

Driving outreach training

Driving outreach training

We train new volunteers by doing a "ride along" driving outreach so they get the idea of what we do and see what life is like for women on the street.
Wind is unkind to campers

Wind is unkind to campers

The seasons in New Mexico: — Winter (December-February) — Wind, just all the time (March-April) — Summer (June to August) — Monsoon (mid-July to August) — Chile roasting (End of August to September) — Fall (October-November)
Always beautiful

Always beautiful

Yet another pretty sunset over the War Zone
Make a name

Make a name

If you get a squeaky unicorn-llama-Santa stuffed animal during street outreach, what are you going to call it? You might think "Dave." But you'd be wrong.
Street cats

Street cats

The women often get pets. Sometimes they get dogs for safety. And sometimes they get kittens because who wouldn't want kittens?
Driving outreach

Driving outreach

The goal of driving outreach is the three M’s: Missing, Messages and Meetings. We look for women who have been listed as missing. We deliver messages to women about their housing applications or upcoming appointments. And we make it a point to meet women we haven’t had contact with before.
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