By Ali Ingersoll, Annetta Stogniew and Claudia Vargas Published 34 seconds ago • Updated 30 seconds ago BOOKMARKER

Early in July, Rafael Colon walked into a resource center in Kensington looking for help getting a new I.D. and left with an opportunity to leave Philadelphia.

“I bumped into somebody today that God brought him to me,” Colon said. “I was fortunate enough to meet him and send me on my way to Florida.”

Colon was born and raised in West Kensington. He says he struggles with substance use disorder and has been in and out of jail. He told us he was ready for all of that to change and the opportunity came when he met an outreach worker at the resource center who offered him a one-way ticket to Florida on a bus leaving that afternoon.

“I've never been down there and

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