Encampment Outreach

Services at The Bridge are expanding with the addition of a new program designed to increase services to homeless individuals living in encampments in Fairbanks North Star Borough. The team will be led by a new Case Manager Lovonnya Hedgepeth. We are excited to add her to our team. We will be hiring a Peer Support Specialist for the Encampment team and will be forming an Encampment Work Group to collaborate with other agencies who desire to do outreach offering Health, Mental Health, Housing and other supports to vulnerable Alaskans.

One of The Bridge Peer Support Specialists worked with a man last fall who had been living in the camps for 20 years and was tired of being robbed. For the first time in so many years he now has a key to his own apartment. We hope to be sharing many more stories of fresh starts on this blog!