The City of Orlando’s Downtown Development Board/Community Redevelopment Agency has just announced a new “enhanced” Downtown Ambassador Program that includes new training for working with people experiencing homelessness.
The Downtown Ambassador Program was launched in 2018 to provide on-the-street service for visitors and residents between the hours of 7 a.m.-11 p.m., in part to help visitors navigate the downtown core during larger events but also to help connect “… the most vulnerable individuals to critical social services and curbing aggressive panhandling” – read, “working with homeless people.”
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