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City of Auburn Blog

"Sept. 27, 2024"

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When doctors join your outreach, health and housing make the difference
A man and a doctor talking in the woods

On the outskirts of Auburn, every first and third Thursday of the month, a troupe makes the rounds. A doctor, a nurse, an outreach worker or two. A mobile clinic, in every sense of the word.

They’re walking the trails they’ve treaded before, dipping into camps with new and familiar faces. They’re offering help — a way out of this current situation. If it’s access to medicine that will lessen the withdrawal of fentanyl or heroin, there’s a doctor right here. If it’s wound treating, here’s the gauze and years of expertise. If it’s someone to talk to, here’s an ear.

Engage in the process of getting healthy first, and the recovery and housing can easily follow, goes the motto of the Whole Care Team at HealthPoint in Auburn. Their partnership with the City of Auburn’s Human Services department is making that a reality.

“When we work together, people are able to succeed and succeed faster,” says Dr. Nathan Kittle, Addiction Medicine Specialty Director at HealthPoint. “That’s the crux of it.”

For about 4 years, Kittle’s team — at first, staffed exclusively by Kittle himself, and then slowly other doctors and nurses — have joined the City of Auburn Anti-homelessness outreach team twice a month with the goal of accessibility. To reach people where they are, and to get them the help they need. To build trust, build a relationship, with the goal of treatment, and then permanent housing.

*Read More* [ https://auburnwa.medium.com/when-doctors-join-your-outreach-health-and-housing-make-the-difference-d68cf2b5d375 ]






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