PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A new SEPTA program puts outreach workers on trains and at stations, offering help to homeless and vulnerable people on the system.
SEPTA calls it the REACH program. Social service workers in purple vests are now deployed at SEPTA stations, offering help to people suffering from addiction, homelessness or mental illness who take shelter on the system.
“We can’t just remove them from the station or from the trains, because they’ll be back on there the next day,” said SEPTA Transit Police Inspector R. Kitt Wells…