Street Stories Update: Billy
My colleague and I met with the HOME team last year. The HOME team is the outreach team from the Department of Mental Health in L.A. County that attends to the most severely mentally ill. At first, some of the team members thought that Billy’s disability was more due to his meth use despite the […]
Housing that Heals…in the Senate Health Committee
Billy resides in Hollywood. More specifically, he sits and sleeps on the cement sidewalk. When we first met him, he was gentle and had piercing blue eyes that seemed even brighter against his grimy, bronzed skin. His sweatpants were plastered onto his legs due to copious urine and feces, which we discovered while cutting his […]