Welcome to “Out of the Dust Homeless Outreach“—a site dedicated to helping the public & policymakers understand the inner workings of homelessness and develop effective ways to address this ongoing plight that ultimately affects everyone. Homelessness is NOT  just about housing people, or helping them overcome addiction and providing adequate mental health services (*which are all vital to success), but should also include measures to change thinking, correct behaviors, and shape life-trajectory to avoid falling back into the streets again.  Doing this entails six key areas of self-development:  1) education  2) skill development  3) life-training  4) holistic healing  5) personal accountability and 6) interacting with them in a compassionate, strength-based, ‘solutogenic’ manner that increases their capacity for change, individual achievement & emotional connection to others.