Interfaith Prayer Service on Zoom, Tues, Mar. 14th at 12:15 PM for the 44 People "Without Fixed Abode" who died in Feb 2023 in OC
All are invited to a Zoom Interfaith Memorial Prayer Service on Tuesday, March 14th at 12:15 PM for the 44 people who died "Without Fixed Abode" in OC in February, 2023 and the 1 other person who had died in January, 2023 but had still gone unrecorded last month. Zoom info below. The 44 people who died “without fixed abode” in February, help make already homeless deaths for the year, the same number as last year but more than 2.7X that in 2019. In response to the clear increase in homeless deaths in recent years, the County released its findings on the causes of the increase. Yes, fentanyl was found to be related to 144 of the 395 homeless deaths in 2021. Surprisingly, however, the effects of petty incarceration were found to be even more deadly: 262 of the 395 people who had died homeless in OC in 2021 had been incarcerated but for less than one month, 168 of those who had died in 2021 had been incarcerated for less than one week, and 75 (more than 1/2 of fentanyl'