harm reduction coalition

socialworky:

“Let me invite everyone down to Skid Row, the world’s largest recovery community,” said Kevin Michael Key, a member of the Los Angeles Poverty Department Theater Troupe. “Drugs and alcohol—there’s a multitude of treatment facilities but there’s a difference between treatment and recovery. Recovery happens out in the street.”

Key himself is a Skid Row resident and a “recovering lawyer—a member in good standing of the other bar.”

“But,” he added, “you also got women escaping domestic violence situations. You have disabled veterans who served their country and then can’t find housing. People who are recovering from a state of homelessness. This is a community. We take people in and comfort them.”