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[quote=Anonymous][b]‘If I can do it, so can you’: At D.C. libraries, the formerly homeless help those currently struggling[/b]
August 29, 2019

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/08/29/if-i-can-do-it-so-can-you-dc-libraries-formerly-homeless-help-those-currently-struggling/[/url]

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In 2014, the D.C. Public Library system hired Jean Badalamenti as assistant manager of health and human services to help the city’s 25 libraries better serve as a resource for the city’s roughly 6,500 homeless residents.
Early last year, she pulled three “peer specialists,” including Renee Hines, from D.C.’s Department of Behavioral Health. The agency since 2004 has assembled a network of people certified to apply their experience with homelessness, substance abuse and other challenges to help people in similar circumstances.
Roughly a year and a half later, Badalamenti estimates the library system’s peer outreach specialists have helped between 10 and 15 homeless residents secure transitional or permanent housing, and 30 more clients have gone to stay in shelters.[/quote]

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