Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced the launch of the HEART program on Tuesday, ... Urban Alchemy launches $1.7M program in Birmingham to respond to unhoused residents in crisis.

Since December, Urban Alchemy’s Birmingham HEART street team has been on the ground helping homeless people, who have been very open to their approach. “We come, we are just natural people.

Urban Alchemy is also one of three finalists for another city contract to operate a tiny home community for homeless people in Birmingham, along with Faith Chapel Care Center and AIDS Alabama.

Urban Alchemy describes itself as a job-creation program for formerly incarcerated people. It was cofounded in 2018 by Lena Miller, a PhD in psychology who has spent decades on a mission to heal ...

The teams, organized by Urban Alchemy, reversed 138 drug overdoses in the city within the past 12 months, according to the nonprofit’s one-year impact report released ...