Susan Young is an outreach worker for the Bowdoin Street Health Center. She knocks on doors, befriends troublemakers and ordinary residents, arranges job interviews, and organizes block parties. Young tries to intervene in troubled situations before violence blooms and to help where she can.
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Outreach worker Susan Young (left) checks in with Antonio Walker at patch of sidewalk on Olney Street that the local homeless population calls "the office" in the Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester on Aug. 22.
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Susan Young helps Antonio Walker (right) do his grocery shopping while a longtime friend of Walker's, Donald "Slim" Harrison, looks on.
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Susan Young and Antonio Walker embraced as she leaves him in his new apartment after helping him go grocery shopping. Walker had been homeless until Young helped him find a place to live.
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Susan Young helped Antonio Walker arrange his groceries in his new apartment.
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Susan Young dances with Bobby Clark (right) and another man during a block party on Norton Street on July 20.
