(gentle music) - We are in the heart of downtown Nashville at War Memorial Plaza, just a block away from the State Capitol.

- There you go.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- On Monday nights down here at War Memorial, it's everything from food and clothing.

There's care for animals.

So there's dog care.

Sometimes there's foot washing.

There's a help desk, so there's housing navigation, and then showers and hygiene and things like that.

- The Monday Street Outreach program was started over 15 years ago by People Loving Nashville, a local nonprofit.

Today, they partner with fellow organizations like ShowerUp to provide services and a sense of community to people experiencing homelessness.

- We believe that everyone deserves a clean, hot shower.

We provide showers that are private, which is really important because privacy is such a rare thing when you're living, you know, unhoused.

Privacy is almost non-existent.

So we want a private shower experience for people.

We make sure that it's clean, and we want them to feel like they're dignified.

We want them to understand that, you know what, you have value, you have meaning.

For us, really our mission is to elevate that dignity that people already have.

We want to inspire hope in them, and we want them to know that they're loved.

They have a real place in this world, and there are people who care about them.

- [Tony] Showers are very important.

I mean, there's a lot of us out here, don't have nowhere to go.

You're homeless, sleeping on the streets.

You can't go anywhere.

People look at you strangely if you're looking a certain kind of way.

If you're not clean or groomed well.

Yeah, this right here is great.

I love them coming in for the showers.

They have haircuts down here, people that need haircuts.

I need one bad.

- At 61, Tony has been struggling to make it on the streets, and he's not alone.

Older adults make up nearly half of the homeless population, and they're the fastest growing age group of people experiencing homelessness.

- [Tony] I don't know how to say it, but I'm just got on bad times.

It makes me feel better knowing that someone cared enough to help me get a shower.

It'd be good if it had somewhere to sleep.

Yeah, true enough.

But working on that, that's no problem.

But haircuts a shower make you feel a whole lot better.