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Reaching out to those in need in Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach specialists, including Crystal Bailey, right, and Mike Packer, left, check in with a familiar face, Oliver Felton, along the Boardwalk early Thursday morning.

Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center outreach specialists, Suzette Ebersole, left, and Mike Packer, engage a young man they think could use the program’s resources during a walk along the boardwalk.

A fairly new face along the Boardwalk, Moises, tells members of the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team his story.

Ricardo Wright ended up at the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center in March after suffering a stroke.

Pam Shine, with the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center, talks about the center’s 18 bed female shelter room.

Adrian Holland explains how he ended up as a client at the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center.

A community kitchen at the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s family wing.

Cafeteria worker Janice Perry cleans up following lunch at the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s expanding facility.

Pam Shine, with the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center, greets a familiar face in the facility’s day room.

Outreach team members with the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center, Suzette Ebersole, right, and Mike Packer, inspect a homeless encampment off Virginia Beach Blvd. in early November.

Members of the Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team, Crystal Bailey, left, and Mike Packer, inspect a cave-like shelter at a homeless encampment off Virginia Beach Blvd.

Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team regularly happen upon the remnants of homeless encampments like this while searching the woods off Virginia Beach Blvd.

Crystal Bailey, with Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team, peers under a tarp to see if there were any people in need inside at a homeless encampments off Virginia Beach Blvd. in early November.

A knife sticks into a tree limb at one of the homeless encampments visited by members of Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team off Virginia Beach Blvd.

Mike Packer, with Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team, walks by one homeless encampment after another in search of people in need living in the woods off Virginia Beach Blvd.

Crystal Bailey, with Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center’s outreach team, navigates through a passage cut into a metal fence in the woods.