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Outreach
At Friendship Place, we connect with our homeless neighbors out on the streets; meeting them right where they are -- in parks, alleys, store fronts, and church parking lots.
View the Friendship Place Outreach Map
Each year over 2,500 essentials are delivered to our homeless neighbors through Friendship Place Outreach.
Items like blankets, toiletries, undergarments, sandwiches, and water bottles can be the difference between life and death for many who live on the streets.
If you can contribute any of these items, contact Michael.
Learn more about how outreach works at Friendship Place.
Insider Outreach
This consumer-driven group offers a new approach to outreach. Our team of experts hit the streets, armed not only with essential items, but with their real-life stories of struggles and triumphs to share with those still living on the street.
Meet the Team!
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Keith Cote
Insider Outreach Team Leader
& Friendship Place Staff Member
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When people describe Keith Cote, they’re likely to say he looks like a football player. True to form, for 20 years Keith coached high school football and basketball in Florida – before becoming homeless.
After painstakingly rebuilding his life, Keith has returned to coaching – in a sense. In August he joined our staff as Residential Facilitator for Zeke’s House, our group home for formerly homeless men, where he’s providing support and guidance to others whose stories of illness and loss echo his own.
Read more of Keith's story here...
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Terry Snead
Volunteer
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I’m 59 years young. I’ve been having problems with homelessness since 1996, but the root cause or catalyst of my homelessness is depression. I look back at my life and realize that I had some kind of problem as early as high school. I was different from the other guys, but I couldn’t put a name to what I felt inside. I tried to go to college but I dropped out. I got married and we ended up divorced. I couldn’t hold down jobs. One time I went to bed and didn’t get up for a whole month. I had two children and I felt a failure as a father and husband. I felt worthless. I had a sense that I could never finish anything.
Read more of Terry's story here...
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George Siletti
Volunteer
& Consumer Council President
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I was homeless, on and off for 30 years. I never finished high school and never had a GED.
I had a job that paid $5.15 an hour but I could not live on that. I became homeless. I slept
outside, usually under a bridge. I would ask for spare change or eat out of garbage cans. Sometimes I went to soup kitchens...
Read more of George's story here...
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