Service Connection/Site Clean-ups will occur today at these Kensington locations:
- 709-711 E. Allegheny Avenue
- Reach Street and Allegheny Avenue
- 800 E. Allegheny Avenue (multiple locations)
- 3199 Potter Street
- 1800 E. Clearfield Street
- 1800 E. Orleans Street (both sides)
- 1800-1813 Hart Lane (both sides)
- 2800 Kensington Avenue (multiple locations)
- 1800 E. Somerset Street
- 400 E. Somerset Street (both sides)
- 2000 E. Sterner Street
- 2000 E. Silver Street
- 1800 E. Harold Street
- 1800 E. Huntingdon Street
About Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days
Office of Homeless Services Encampment Resolution Team (ERT) staff members join the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services’s (DBHIDS) Homeless Street Outreach Team (Outreach) and the City’s Sanitation Department to conduct *Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days. OHS’s ERT staff schedules and leads service connection clean-ups at various selected outdoor encampment locations in Philadelphia.
How it Works
The teams post signs in advance to alert people living in tents, RVs, makeshift shelters, or none at all, on sidewalks, under bridges, in parks, empty fields, lots, etc., of upcoming service days. Each service day, the teams visit the encampment sites to offer individuals services, such as rides to a City intake center where staff can help find shelter space, Stranded Traveler Assistance, behavioral health, drug or medical treatment, and other similar services. The Sanitation Department team further assists by cleaning up accumulated trash.
* Service days are not the same as formal, encampment resolutions, which, while social services-led, involve many more City of Philadelphia departments and nonprofit partners and follow specific protocols regarding personal property storage, notification, and other requirements.
