To address homelessness, SEPTA wants to increase its number of outreach specialists from seven to more than 50 so that they can connect more people to social services. It also wants to expand its co-responder program, whereby behavioral health providers team up with police officers to respond to and de-escalate situations involving people with mental health issues.
However, SEPTA noted that it will need the help of elected leaders to address root causes of homelessness, and it called on them to increase the number of shelter beds and support “low barrier housing options” across Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. “In the end, it is only through coordinated, communitywide action that we will be able to connect people to services like housing and mental health care to end homelessness on our system,” SEPTA Chairman Pasquale Deon and SEPTA CEO and General Manager Leslie Richards wrote.
How’s that defund the police working out 🤷♂️
Glad they're doing more and glad they called out the city leadership to do their part too.
Bull I take el every day, no cops in sight. It’s SEPTA’s job to transport people safely that’s it, we don’t need “outreach specialists” we need cops.
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