Originally published on February 16, 2021 6:17 pm On Tuesday, members of the Medford Homeless Task Force laid out their plan for helping unsheltered people during severe cold or hot weather, or during unhealthy air quality. The program will provide a network for resources including bedding, meal preparation, cleaning, and staff trained in de-escalation, that can quickly be deployed to a site, according to Angela Durant with the Medford planning department. “All of those types of things, churches and their volunteer staff aren’t equipped to handle,” Durant says. “They just can’t do it, as much as they want to. This system is in place to put all those things together in a package deal for other potential sites down the road.”