Showing up: Street medicine outreachers Phil Costello, Emma Lo, Claudette Kidd at WNHH FM. Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker.The outreach worker, Phil Costello, reported that he has encountered six people injured in attacks in the past two weeks.“A group of kids will pull up next to a homeless person sleeping on the street and attack them and actually beat them. There isn’t any rhyme or reason, and the attacks seem to be random on whoever is on the street at night. A lot of times, these people are just sleeping, and they get attacked in their sleeping bags,” Costello said during a conversation Tuesday along with two fellow New Haven homeless-outreach workers on WNHHFM’s ​“Dateline New Haven” program.“They’re just getting out, punching them a few times, and then jumping back” in the car.Costello, clinical director of the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center homeless street outreach team, walks Fair Haven Friday mornings with team members to check in on homeless people and provide on-site health care. This past Friday morning two undocumented unhoused men they work with approached them to report an attack. One had a ​“big gash” in his head along with a black eye. The team treated and bandaged the wounds, and heard the story.They’ve heard similar stories from four other homeless people since mid-September, Costello said.“The homeless really don’t want to talk to the police, so nobody is reporting this. I’ve tried to encourage them, first of all, to maybe at least use the anonymous line, so that at least there is some documentation in our system that this is happening. But so far, I haven’t had any takers.” Police told the Independent that they haven’t heard from other victims to ​“collect the information they need to investigate.”Costello appeared on ​“Dateline” along with Claudette Kidd of the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, who helps clients navigate social service systems and obtain sleeping bags and food; and with Emma Lo, clinical director of Connecticut Mental Health Center’s psychiatry-focused street medicine team. The three regularly work in conjunction with each other as they reach out to the estimated 250 to 400 people living on local streets. The three talked about the barriers they face as well as the individual triumphs that keep them going. Click here, here, and here to learn more about their organizations and how to lend support. Click on the video below to watch the full discussion on WNHHFM’s ​“Dateline New Haven.” (Click here to subscribe or here to listen to other episodes of ​“Dateline New Haven.”)