The City of Fort Lauderdale is expanding its homeless outreach efforts by expanding its outreach team.

Fort Lauderdale police officer Brian Blount is on the front lines helping people who have no place to call home, and now he is getting reinforcements.

An estimated 615 people in Fort Lauderdale are experiencing homelessness, with about half of them unsheltered. This week, the city began boosting its response.

"We're bringing in other city departments, city efforts together as a combined homelessness response team," said Assistant City Manager Chris Cooper.

More positions and new case managers

Fort Lauderdale is expanding its outreach team from 13 positions to 20.

The group includes police, fire rescue, mental health experts, medical personnel and for the first time, two case workers

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