GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids is retooling its Homeless Outreach Team to offer a 24-hour model that focuses more on medical care, beginning this summer.
Fire Chief Brad Brown said the program, which will be called the Medical Outreach Team (MOT), is still focused on working with homeless individuals across the city. But now, it will offer more proactive medical care that takes a casework approach to helping residents navigate the medical system.
The goal of revamping the program is to be more responsive to the needs of homeless people in the community, and to also draw in more firefighters to the team, which has struggled to find new members, the fire chief said…