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The two babies were hungry. The youngest, just a few months old, lay in a soiled diaper. Their teenage mother slumped on a couch.

That’s the scene that greeted a state trooper who responded to a 911 call from the manager of a motel north of Wilmington. The beleaguered young mother and her children were being evicted. They had no transportation, no money and nowhere to go.

The trooper realized he wasn’t equipped to help the family, so he summoned Tiffany Johnson, a Delaware social worker, and Chelsea Derryberry, a peer recovery specialist. The duo raced to the motel from their office at Delaware State Police Troop 1.

“It was just a bad situation,” Johnson recalled. “She wa

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