Alliant University Course Aims To Professionalize Street Outreach Workers (kpbs.org)
An eight-week course at Alliant University called the Community Mentors Program is trying to help. " We knew that if this work was ever going to be respected, ever going to be valued to the degree that it should have been valued at, we were going to have to create a professional standard," said Aquil Basheer, one of the course instructors. "We were going to have to create professional protocols." Basheer began helping street outreach workers professionalize their work some 20 years ago when...