The Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DTLB Alliance) Outreach Ambassador strives to “meet people where they are” and works to build relationships to assist individuals and families in accessing local resources and social service agencies. With this service, the DTLB Alliance provides a Downtown specific resource to assist in overcoming barriers to accepting services and a place where persons experiencing homelessness can receive immediate items such as clothing, hygiene items and transportation assistance to assist with activities of daily living. Services include outreach within the district and collaboration and data sharing with city and community partners. The Outreach Ambassador regularly connects with outreach workers from the Multi-Service Center and other service providers share essential information.

The DTLB Alliance Fresh Start program is collecting clean towels and other hygienic supplies for our unhoused neighbors at local shelters/service providers. Your support of the Fresh Start campaign enables non-profit service providers to offer hot showers and personal hygiene supplies to our unhoused neighbors most in need while ensuring a healthier and safer Downtown community for us all. Most importantly, you are contributing to a person regaining a piece of everyday life with dignity and helping to dissolve the separateness between a person experiencing homelessness and the rest of society. It is a door through which some will come to accept services, which may include housing, mental health treatment, substance abuse counseling, job training, and other community contacts.