A Service Connection/Site Clean-up will occur today at: 

• Camac Street and Race Street
• 1700 Ranstead Street
• Broad Street and Snyder Avenue
• Broad Street and Passyunk Avenue

About Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days 

Office of Homeless Services Encampment Resolution Team (ERT) staff members join the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services’s (DBHIDS) Homeless Street Outreach Team (Outreach) and the City’s Sanitation Department to conduct *Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days. OHS’s ERT staff schedules and leads service connection clean-ups at various selected outdoor encampment locations in Philadelphia.  

How it Works 

The teams post signs in advance to alert people living in tents, RVs, makeshift shelters, or none at all, on sidewalks, under bridges, in parks, empty fields, lots,etc., of upcoming service days. Each service day, the teams visit the encampment sites to offer individuals services, such as rides to a City intake center where staff can help find shelter space, Stranded Traveler Assistance, behavioral health, drug or medical treatment, and other similar services. The Sanitation Department team further assists by cleaning up accumulated trash. 

 * Service days are not the same as formal, encampment resolutions, which, while social services-led, involve many more City of Philadelphia departments and nonprofit partners and follow specific protocols regarding personal property storage, notification, and other requirements. 

Service Connection/Site Clean-ups will occur today at these Kensington locations:

• 3241 Kensington Avenue
• 1800 E. Clearfield Street
• 3066-3072 Kensington Avenue
• 2814-2824 Kensington Avenue
• 1800 E. Orleans Street
• 1800 E. Cambria Street
• 2899 Ruth Street and Hart Lane (corner)
• 1800-1813 E. Hart Lane (both sides)
• 1800 E. Somerset Street (both sides)
• 400 E. Somerset Street (both sides)
• 2700 Emerald Street
• 2000 E. Sterner Street
• 2000 E. Silver Street
• 2600 Kensington Avenue (across from the Huntingdon El-stop, building 1801)

About Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days 

Office of Homeless Services Encampment Resolution Team (ERT) staff members join the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services’s (DBHIDS) Homeless Street Outreach Team (Outreach) and the City’s Sanitation Department to conduct *Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days. OHS’s ERT staff schedules and leads service connection clean-ups at various selected outdoor encampment locations in Philadelphia. 

How it Works 

The teams post signs in advance to alert people living in tents, RVs, makeshift shelters, or none at all, on sidewalks, under bridges, in parks, empty fields, lots, etc., of upcoming service days. Each service day, the teams visit the encampment sites to offer individuals services, such as rides to a City intake center where staff can help find shelter space, Stranded Traveler Assistance, behavioral health, drug or medical treatment, and other similar services. The Sanitation Department team further assists by cleaning up accumulated trash. 

* Service days are not the same as formal, encampment resolutions, which, while social services-led, involve many more City of Philadelphia departments and nonprofit partners and follow specific protocols regarding personal property storage, notification, and other requirements.