![]() ![]() And he said he hopes to help “many more” soon. He’s helped nine others get housing vouchers or subsidies. In the past nine months or so, Neulight - working with the city’s homeless outreach team and other local partners - has helped 13 people get into housing. For a number of park users, Neulight’s presence may be the first positive decision the university has made amid a long history of tension. The Berkeley City Council recognized him earlier this month with a proclamation for his efforts to build relationships and act as a liaison between UC Berkeley and the city, along with a range of Alameda County service providers. Neulight is the first social worker hired by UC Berkeley to work directly with park regulars to boost their income through government assistance programs, connect them with services, and attempt to get them on the path to housing. Photo: Alli Yates/Berkeley Social Welfare Neulight had gotten the friend a shelter bed, but she’d been turned away. As Neulight waited, a woman sitting alone on the west side of the park, near the community garden, got Neulight’s attention. Once they were connected, he continued to hold the phone so the pair could talk without him. The man couldn’t remember the caseworker’s extension, so Neulight set up a conference call and patched them together. ![]() Neulight encouraged the couple to follow up with the agency that made the Stockton placement, particularly as it had opened a new headquarters a few blocks away.Īfter catching up for several minutes, Neulight broke off from that conversation to take a call: Someone needed help getting through to a housing caseworker. So they’d come back to stay in the park in Berkeley until they could find another option. But they said it was a “hellhole.” There were Crips and Bloods, and they’d seen someone shot fatally in the head. Not long ago, the couple had gotten housing in Stockton. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, South, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.“It’s good to see you sitting up,” Neulight, pronounced “new light,” told the man, who had recently been released from the hospital. ![]()
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