Sunshine Stories

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...

Brooke doesn’t know how many times she overdosed — 19? 20? — but someone was there to reverse the damage with Narcan each time. “I don’t know if I was actively trying to kill...

Donna grew up in Kensington and sometimes takes her 15-year-old daughter back to the old neighborhood. But she isn’t there to visit friends or family. Instead, she drives down...

Portrait by Hilary Swift for The New York Times At her lowest point, Tracey was sleeping on sidewalks. She was a frequent robbery victim, having even her belly button ring stolen...

For years, Kali felt she had a handle on her heroin use, supporting herself with a job in the restaurant industry and renting her own apartment. But in 2019, she began using a...