Fresno Mission CEO spending 24 hours on bench to address homelessness

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The person of the Fresno Mission is embarking connected a unsocial effort to code homelessness successful our communities.

At 3 p.m. connected Wednesday, CEO Matt Dildine sat down for his "Conversations connected a Bench" project.

For the adjacent 24 hours straight, Dildine volition enactment connected the seat extracurricular successful the acold to speech with anyone who volition perceive astir the ongoing situation successful the Central Valley and imaginable solutions.

The Fresno Mission besides provided a unrecorded feed, which you tin ticker connected the non-profit's website, Facebook and YouTube channels.

Using the hashtag 'Bench talks,' you tin adjacent enactment successful the conversation.

The Fresno Mission says the discussions volition radiance a airy connected the severity of the contented successful Fresno County and hopefully pb to uncovering solutions to homelessness.

On Wednesday night, dozens of radical volition slumber retired successful the cold.

Dildine says helium hopes this 24-hour task volition besides foster knowing that leads to broad solutions for ending this crisis.

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