ABSTRACT
Society will continue to fail in all its efforts on behalf of the homeless unless people confront their denial about the realities of homelessness and start acknowledging the many problems that fill the lives of up to 85 percent of those whom we call homeless. People who suffer from the disorders all have negative physiological, psychological, and behavioral side effects and are socially as well as medically impaired, but they are deserving, even if they are "homeless"—of treatment, care, and appropriate attention. Intentional outreach can be conducted in drop-in centers, day centers, shelters, soup kitchens, on the streets, or anywhere people in need of treatment spend time. Unimaginable in the late twentieth century in America, our cities and towns have become Calcuttas filled with men and women huddled in doorways, breadlines and soup kitchens, beggars and waifs, human tragedy, disease, and death.
