Mobile Outreach

Each week, Make-A-Day’s mobile outreach unit travels to encampments, shelters, libraries, and other places where our neighbors are living outdoors or on the edge of housing. We bring fresh meals made in our food truck, hygiene and weather gear, harm reduction supplies, and practical support right to people who often have no way to get to traditional services.

Mobile outreach is about meeting immediate needs and building long-term relationships. Our Community Outreach Team shows up consistently, listens first, and gets to know each person by name. Over time, those connections open the door to stabilizing services: help replacing IDs or birth certificates, legal navigation and record sealing, housing assessments, links to workforce programs, access to healthcare and recovery support, budgeting and credit counseling, benefits enrollment, and more.

We don’t ask people to come to us or fill out forms before receiving help. We go to them, without judgment and without prerequisites. That approach removes barriers for people who have had difficult experiences with systems or who simply don’t have transportation, childcare, internet access, or a phone.

Mobile outreach is also deeply collaborative. We coordinate with local partners in housing, behavioral health, public health, legal aid, workforce development, and street medicine to bring as many services as possible directly to our neighbors outside. We share information, make warm handoffs, and follow up so people aren’t left navigating complex systems alone.

At its core, mobile outreach is about dignity, presence, and trust. A meal opens the conversation. Consistency builds the relationship. And together, those relationships create pathways toward safety and stability, one visit, one connection, and one community at a time.