The resource that lifted Lanny Outcalt out of homelessness wasn’t a shelter bed. It was a familiar face.
Outcalt had been pulled onto the street by a drug addiction. He had stayed there because sometimes a crowded resource center feels just as lonely as a sidewalk.
A decade passed, in and out of treatment facilities, interspersed with nights spent in the Gallivan Center courtyard or a field along North Temple in Salt Lake City…