Former members of DeKalb County’s Youth Commission have successfully pitched a proposal that could expand services for people experiencing homelessness.
Former Youth Commission member and current Board of Commissioners intern Jabarii Burgess urged the board’s Finance Committee to support a six-month pilot mobile shower program known as “Dignity on Wheels.”
“56% of the unhoused population has no access to a shower. 27% cite lack of transport to hygiene services as the primary obstacle to this issue,” Burgess said…