In Los Angeles, California, there is a smaller City within a City. The smaller one is the City where its citizens live and die on the street. The numbers are staggering. At the last approximate count, there were over 75,000 people trying to survive unhoused and, at the same time, thousands who are dying. Only a few years ago the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) started a pioneering and creative response to this widespread area crisis. It is a program referred to as Street Psychiatry and often called a “radical solution”. It is radical because the medical and therapeutic care given to those in critical need is offered on the streets, creating a kind of outdoor emergency room. Listen to the guest on this episode, Aubree Lovelace, Chief Administrator over the HOME (Homeless, Outreach, Mobile, Engagement) Team and learn about those LACDMH staff making an effort to save lives, just in an usual day’s work. The Team is made up of Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses and Peer members. You will be hearing from several HOME Team staff in upcoming episodes. Each of them individually and together, face those living in the streets in the most critical situations. They are people with such a severe mental illness that they have lost the ability to take care of their most basic needs. Referrals to all the benefits and services of the HOME Team program usually come from other homeless outreach providers and also Police Officers, family members and community members. The program has grown because of the HOME Team’s successes which means having a person on the street accept medicines that reduce their mental illness enough that they may begin to accept help toward housing and even reunification with family when possible. It is a humanitarian war out there on the streets of Los Angeles and funding to expand an army of dedicated mental health staff to offer services can prevent the more costly events that bring homeless to the hospitals, clinics and jails. The LACDMH 24/7 access number for help is 1-800-854-7771 The National Suicide Crisis Line is #988