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HAND is that organization for Detroit. It administers no direct care or shelter, Gray said. And what can you as an agency and your expertise kind of bring to the table? Midway through the event, Dennis Davis, 54, spoke up, challenging the semi-celebratory occasion, which ended with a group photo starring an oversized check.

Davis has used a wheelchair for years after he was shot, he said. In the midst of the COVID pandemic, Street Medicine Detroit, a Wayne State University School of Medicine student-led organization committed to serving the unreached homeless population of Detroit, has built a series of Field Hand-Washing Stations and placed them near soup kitchens and in homeless encampments throughout the city.

Our goal is to maximize their health and safety. It is our hope that these stations will aid in doing so. The U. We were fortunate enough to have the majority of the necessary items donated from Home Depot in Allen Park, Mich.

Since the Field Hand-Washing Stations were implemented in Detroit, SMD and DSC have continued to receive positive feedback from encampment residents, as well as requests for assistance from other Street Medicine programs around the country interested in setting up stations of their own.