The path out of homelessness could begin with a single phone call to the right person.
Kevin Adler, left, Jessica Montiero and Adler's friend Tim Schwartz in downtown San Diego in February. Adler's Miracle Messages reunited Montiero with her sister. Finding that person’s number, however, can be a challenge for someone on the street or in a shelter with few resources, little time for research and possible personal issues.
Arriving on the corner of 17th Street and Imperial Avenue on a cold and damp morning Feb. 21, Schwartz immediately turned heads with his suit, a loud black outfit covered in graphics from a Pac-Man game. He celebrates friends’ birthdays by giving hugs to strangers in public, and Adler was turning 34 this day.
“This one was pretty easy,” Adler said. “A couple of things were in place. It’s an easy name to look up because it’s not that common. We had a sense that there was no bad blood between them, just someone moving away.” “You don’t know where you’re going to go to the bathroom; you don’t know where you’re going to sleep,” he said. “Imagine your house gets flooded or there was an earthquake, and that’s every single night. You wouldn’t have the wherewithal to go to the library and do detective work.”Adler said he was inspired to create Miracle Messages because of his late Uncle Mark, who had mental health problems and was homeless on and off for 30 years.
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