Sunshine Stories

During the 13+ years that John lived on the streets, he’d often hunker down behind a closed supermarket. He remembers nights so cold and wind so biting that he got frost bite on...

About eight months ago, Aisha says, “everything was falling apart.” “It was getting bad, slowly but surely,” she says. “My addiction, my relationship with my children. It seemed...

Left to right: Francis Wildflower, Naomi Wildflower, and Jamila. Photo courtesy of Naomi. Jamila admits she was a “hard case.” Although she was unhoused and dependent on illicit...

Portrait of Jackie: Kit Ramsey Jackie’s life was a struggle from the start. Born and raised in Kensington, her childhood was marked by sexual abuse and neglect. When, at age 14...

It's taken years for Amy to get where she is now. But she never gave up. Amy lost her housing in Delaware County in 2017 and started living on the streets in Philadelphia. She was...

I always tell people Prevention Point saved my life because it did. When Cherry was first living on the streets of Kensington about two years ago, she sought safety in numbers...

During the years he lived unhoused and using drugs on the streets of Kensington, Theo was beaten, robbed, and assaulted. He suffered horrible, life-threatening injuries and...

We recently received this note from Easha, a participant in the Drexel Trauma Intervention to Optimize PrEP Among Women Who Inject Drugs (TIARAS) program and resident of PPP’s...

Photo credit: Steve Weinik Trigger warning: physical and sexual assault Ashley, a former participant at Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows how hard it is for women facing...

To all the Volunteers and Friends at PPP: My name is Mark. I spent five horrible weeks from the beginning of December 2022 until the first week of January this year living on the...