Rosanova saw almost 150 clients that night.Īmong them was 29-year-old Jay Snook, wearing a thin, white T-shirt. The outreach workers ride the trains and walk through platforms trying to develop relationships with clients to identify their needs, a Haymarket official said. The Haymarket Center, which offers substance use treatment and mental health programming, started a similar program on the Blue Line just last week.

They ride the train on weekday evenings after rush hour and assist those in need of mental health treatment or housing services. Thresholds, a mental health treatment provider, placed a permanent team of outreach workers on the Red Line in January.

The Night Ministry is not the only group trying to help unhoused CTA riders.

Mayor vows to remove unhoused people from O’Hare as more seek shelter at airport.

Still, they offered him some Narcan, an opioid overdose-reversing drug, which he stuffed in the pocket of his thin black windbreaker. More than 100 people were already there when he arrived, queuing up for a hot meal and harm reduction kits containin sterile syringes, alcohol wipes and the overdose reversal drug naloxone.īy the time Reed reached the front of the line, the outreach team was already out of clothes for the night. That evening Reed, 52, took a Blue Line train to the Forest Park station just west of Chicago, hoping to get lucky at an outreach event run by the Night Ministry - a nonprofit that sets up meals and medical stations twice a week at train stations to help people who are homeless. The airport had been a refuge on winter nights until local and national reports showed how many people were sleeping there - and the city cracked down. He lost most of his belongings when he was forced out of O’Hare International Airport by Chicago police last month along with dozens of other unhoused people.

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