The USC Street Medicine program has launched a pilot project with the USC Department of Public Safety to be the “first responders” delivering care to the unhoused population around the University Park Campus.

The partnership will be a template for future non-police responses for homelessness, mental health-related and community-based violence intervention support, and is one of the new programs underway as part of the university’s implementation of the DPS Community Advisory Board’s recommendations.

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