Alan Graham

One-on-one retreat between you and God in the retreat center were primarily the Wallace streets of downtown Austin.

We've done dozens of those.

I've personally done 50.

I've probably spent 250 nights on the streets myself.

And you begin to build relationships with people through that.

So many of the early people that came into the village were coming through that network.

Today, we're engaged.

We have an organization in town called ECHO.

They are our continuum of care lead in Austin, Texas.

And a number of agencies are engaged with ECHO who refer people through ECHO and the HMIS system into the village.

And they have a coordinated assessment.

They call it something else, I think, now.

But there's a coordinated assessment tool that people can take that attempts to assess

individual's vulnerability.

So the goal from the continuum of care folks is to get the highest vulnerable people up off the streets because allegedly they cost us, the taxpayer, the most money, although there's some questions around that now, legitimate questions.

We try to get a balance because we

can't become a full-blown assisted living type of a deal.

We need people that can live independently.

So there's a structure that brings people in.

It takes a while.