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Street Outreach: Love, Service & Leadership
Street Love, Service & Leadership with the foreword written by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
The daily and nightly offices of Street Outreach Workers are inside drug houses, abandoned buildings, under bridges, and within domestic violence and emergency shelters.
Street Outreach Workers don’t just go to places most people try to avoid, meeting our most marginalized and traumatized youth and young adults where they’re at, giving them food, water, blankets, first aid kits and hygiene products. Street Outreach Workers build trust with those who have every reason not to trust anyone. Street Outreach Workers facilitate healing and powerful transformation in uncontrolled and sometimes volatile situations.
There have been many books written about leadership, transformation and inspiration, but few books take the reader on a journey inside of true life-or-death situations, demonstrating how our deepest needs, if frozen by trauma, can be thawed with the light of love, service and leadership. Editorial
“ I hope this book inspires fellow brothers and sisters to do their bit to better the lives of the many young people who deep within yearn for our care and compassion .” – The Dalai Lama
“This book is a riveting account of the reality of human trafficking, homelessness, hunger, domestic violence and other forms of neglect that push youth out of mainstream society and into the margins of despair and cold survival. One cannot read and learn about why this happens, why it continues, and how it is perpetuated by society and not feel the need to join and/or contribute to the solutions offered by Anthony Goulet.”
- Richard R. Ramos
Founder, Author, of Parents on a Mission
President - CEO, The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
“Some books challenge us to change perspectives and once we read them, we’re never the same and we can never see things the same way again. This book is one of those. Anthony walks his talk and exudes the qualities in his own life that he espouses in his book – compassion, empathy, kindness and a deep desire to understand people and connect with them. He was the right person to write this moving memoir of hope…and thankfully he did.”
- D.J. Vanas
Native Discovery Inc.
Motivational Storyteller / Author of The Tiny Warrior and Spirit on the Run
“The gut-wrenching reality of youth who have been harmed, sexually, physically and emotionally abused, exploited and neglected has been, for far too long, missing from the academic dialogue. Soulless, quantitative facts have little impact on the kind of intentional, heart opening effort necessary to carry out the selfless work of street outreach. This book offers unique insight into the daily experiences of the Street Outreach Worker in an accessible way that reads like an honest conversation with an old friend.”
- Akello Stone, Sociologist/Professor/Youth Empowerment Advocate/Author of Seeking Selfdom in the Age of Selfies
“I have been in the social services field for many years and worked with many people throughout those years. Every now and then I’m blessed to encounter someone who really gets what it means to serve and who truly has a servant’s heart. Anthony is at the top of that list and I am a better person for knowing him, and a better professional for getting to work with him. His book is an honest look at what it takes to effectively serve a population, that sadly, many people don’t want to admit exists.”
- Jennifer Jones, LMSW-IPR, LCCA, State Director of Halfway Houses and Contract Care with Texas Juvenile Justice Department
The daily and nightly offices of Street Outreach Workers are inside drug houses, abandoned buildings, under bridges, and within domestic violence and emergency shelters.
Street Outreach Workers don’t just go to places most people try to avoid, meeting our most marginalized and traumatized youth and young adults where they’re at, giving them food, water, blankets, first aid kits and hygiene products. Street Outreach Workers build trust with those who have every reason not to trust anyone. Street Outreach Workers facilitate healing and powerful transformation in uncontrolled and sometimes volatile situations.
There have been many books written about leadership, transformation and inspiration, but few books take the reader on a journey inside of true life-or-death situations, demonstrating how our deepest needs, if frozen by trauma, can be thawed with the light of love, service and leadership. Editorial
“ I hope this book inspires fellow brothers and sisters to do their bit to better the lives of the many young people who deep within yearn for our care and compassion .” – The Dalai Lama
“This book is a riveting account of the reality of human trafficking, homelessness, hunger, domestic violence and other forms of neglect that push youth out of mainstream society and into the margins of despair and cold survival. One cannot read and learn about why this happens, why it continues, and how it is perpetuated by society and not feel the need to join and/or contribute to the solutions offered by Anthony Goulet.”
- Richard R. Ramos
Founder, Author, of Parents on a Mission
President - CEO, The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
“Some books challenge us to change perspectives and once we read them, we’re never the same and we can never see things the same way again. This book is one of those. Anthony walks his talk and exudes the qualities in his own life that he espouses in his book – compassion, empathy, kindness and a deep desire to understand people and connect with them. He was the right person to write this moving memoir of hope…and thankfully he did.”
- D.J. Vanas
Native Discovery Inc.
Motivational Storyteller / Author of The Tiny Warrior and Spirit on the Run
“The gut-wrenching reality of youth who have been harmed, sexually, physically and emotionally abused, exploited and neglected has been, for far too long, missing from the academic dialogue. Soulless, quantitative facts have little impact on the kind of intentional, heart opening effort necessary to carry out the selfless work of street outreach. This book offers unique insight into the daily experiences of the Street Outreach Worker in an accessible way that reads like an honest conversation with an old friend.”
- Akello Stone, Sociologist/Professor/Youth Empowerment Advocate/Author of Seeking Selfdom in the Age of Selfies
“I have been in the social services field for many years and worked with many people throughout those years. Every now and then I’m blessed to encounter someone who really gets what it means to serve and who truly has a servant’s heart. Anthony is at the top of that list and I am a better person for knowing him, and a better professional for getting to work with him. His book is an honest look at what it takes to effectively serve a population, that sadly, many people don’t want to admit exists.”
- Jennifer Jones, LMSW-IPR, LCCA, State Director of Halfway Houses and Contract Care with Texas Juvenile Justice Department
184 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 26, 2019
About the author
Anthony Goulet
5 books3 followersHello. My name is Anthony Goulet. I am a transformational writer and speaker, the author of five books, and a member of the Authors Guild. The Dalai Lama wrote the foreword for my book, Street Outreach: Love, Service & Leadership. I do not write because I think I have the answers. I write because I am willing to learn.
My writing is woven together with love, prayer, laughter and tears, encouraging the reading to take the journey from the head back to the heart. Within my own lived experience as well as my professional calling of serving youth, young adults and families within the realms of suicide intervention, human trafficking intervention, homelessness intervention and emergency shelter services, I have witnessed too many miracles to be a skeptic. And yet, I have witnessed many skeptics who refuse to see their miracles.
Working full-time in prevention and intervention services with youth, young adults and families for over three decades, I know that no one is unreachable or unteachable as long as the heart doing the reaching and teaching is full of love, compassion and honor. For more than a decade I was on-call 24/7 as a street-level Gang Interventionist and Street Outreach Worker, serving youth and young adults who were homeless, runaways, missing and trafficked. During that time in my career, my full-time office was under bridges, within drug houses, abandoned buildings, and inside emergency rooms delivering the Creator's light of love, hope and healing.
My family and I reside in San Antonio, Texas where I work full-time as the Director of Training with an amazing youth-serving organization. I continue to write and facilitate transformational training and workshops with schools, organizations and communities throughout the United States and abroad.
Walk in love,
Anthony Goulet
My writing is woven together with love, prayer, laughter and tears, encouraging the reading to take the journey from the head back to the heart. Within my own lived experience as well as my professional calling of serving youth, young adults and families within the realms of suicide intervention, human trafficking intervention, homelessness intervention and emergency shelter services, I have witnessed too many miracles to be a skeptic. And yet, I have witnessed many skeptics who refuse to see their miracles.
Working full-time in prevention and intervention services with youth, young adults and families for over three decades, I know that no one is unreachable or unteachable as long as the heart doing the reaching and teaching is full of love, compassion and honor. For more than a decade I was on-call 24/7 as a street-level Gang Interventionist and Street Outreach Worker, serving youth and young adults who were homeless, runaways, missing and trafficked. During that time in my career, my full-time office was under bridges, within drug houses, abandoned buildings, and inside emergency rooms delivering the Creator's light of love, hope and healing.
My family and I reside in San Antonio, Texas where I work full-time as the Director of Training with an amazing youth-serving organization. I continue to write and facilitate transformational training and workshops with schools, organizations and communities throughout the United States and abroad.
Walk in love,
Anthony Goulet
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