Homeless young people in tattered jeans sit on the steps of a church in the University District. Others stand in the alley or lie in the dirt under a tree.
Most are hoping to get one of the 27 sleeping mats that staff will lay out at the ROOTS young adult shelter, inside the University Temple United Methodist Church.
A few are waiting for something more often given away at for-profit spas, not nonprofit shelters -- a massage.
As leader of the Alternative Healthcare Access Campaign, Saralynn Finn brings healing therapies to those who need but can't afford them. ...