WILLIAMSBURG — The City of Williamsburg’s HOPE Team Pilot Program, launched in May and running through October, aims to help the increasing number of unhoused individuals in the city.

The HOPE Team — Houseless Outreach Partnership Engagement — is a street outreach team comprised of an outreach coordinator from the city’s Department of Human Services and a mental health clinician from Colonial Behavioral Health. A community engagement officer from the Williamsburg Police Department provides support or consultation to the team as needed, the city said.

The team conducts regular outreach to areas with high concentrations of unhoused individuals, focusing on building rapport and trust through consistent engagement and a multidisciplinary outreach approach, the city said, helping connect them

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