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| The Rescue Mission doesn’t wait for the homeless to come to us. We go to them in our Homeless Intervention Services (HIS) van. Finding hurting people under bridges or in alleyways or abandoned houses, our HIS team reaches out in God’s love with blankets and coffee in winter or refreshing cups of water in summer. We pray such positive interactions will move them from the edge of destruction and into our shelter where life can get better. Whether they’re reaching out on the streets or taking homeless people to critical appointments, the HIS team does His work. | ||
| The Homeless Intervention Services (HIS) team reaches out to homeless people living on the streets and provides them with free transportation to medical, legal, employment and housing appointments as well as emergency shelters. | ||
| The HIS team serves the homeless and housing vulnerable in Onondaga County. | ||
| Transportation requests must be made 24 hours in advance. Homeless people may stop by the New Life Day Center, which has an entrance in the 100 block of Seymour Street, and speak to a New Life Center or HIS team staff member or call 315-701-3812 or 315-416-9237. | ||
| The HIS van hit the streets just before the Rescue Mission opened the Donald A. Dixon Homeless Intervention Services Center at 155 Gifford Street in 1988. It succeeded the outreach ministry of the Rescue Mission’s RM-1 van that started in 1972, except that instead of primarily transporting intoxicated individuals, it focuses on homeless people. | ||
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