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STREET PEOPLE SOMETIMES INCOMPATABILITY with SHELTERS

It is important to be aware of the anxieties people have about going to shelter, whether real or imagined.
The motivation behind this article is twofold

1) to have more compassion for street people as they struggle with the idea of finding shelter.
2) to collaborate in a positive manner with  shelters , and help provide volunteer services like yoga meditation skills training to improve rather than always judge, and where it seem poor management is happening to point this out, directly but also  in a spirit of collaboration remembering that  shelters have noble intentions after all.

SHELTERS in many cases reintegrate people back into society with many helpful services. Wonderful stories of family and work reintegration and substance rehab are some of their outstanding results but statistics are hard to come by as to whether these are minority  results and to what extent, At the same time personal accountability by clients is also a factor and shelters cannot be held accountable for all "failures"

At the same time, unless the public is encouraged by shelters to take more interest in collaborating and communicating with shelters about perceived problems , with the positive intent to help improve, and take more interest in public participation in shelter processes, policies will remain either or both stagnant or might not be enacted always in the most efficient or client centred approaches. An example,  developed by a 3rd party is this Homeless Evaluator Tool

Reading suggests that those on the street for a longer time, perhaps even having spent half a life time on the street, (chronic homelessness) have a more difficult time going through the shelter process, than those only having been living on the street for shorter times.
Shelters seem to have far more success with the latter (shorter term street people)
Even so most street people find many aspects of shelters extremely difficult, and some shelters perhaps provide a better environment than others in some respects.

At the same time, rarely are shelters transparent about the same issues, or do they dialogue with the public and street people about issues that make some street people resist them one one hand  or find them inaccessible on another. Perhaps also because the public themselves do not show much interest in the subject.

Kylyssa Shay is a passionate writer about homelessness, who , having been homeless herself (sleeping rough ) and also worked in shelters, and later took people into her house for 20 years, 80% of whom found their way off the street and also reintegrated into society,  recounts " The worst experiences I had with taking in over twenty different homeless people into my home over about a twenty year period were that one kid took twelve dollars from my purse and another made long distance phone calls without asking."

Her Blog article "Why Don't Homeless People Use Shelters?"
is in extreme depth and one hopes that were shelters all over the world to study it , as few accounts can be so in depth, many of the problems would change CLICK HERE TO READ

you can also download it CLICK HERE

The difficulties she outlines in the above article are as follows:

Lack of any beds at most in winter
Staff Assumptions about Drug Use and Criminality
An Invasive and Disrespectful Check-In Process
Drug Addictions
Danger of Theft
Separation of Family Members
Religious Differences
Lack of Privacy and Fear of Crowds
Lack of Control
No Pets Allowed
Denied Entry Due to Mental Illness
Rules That Unfairly Endanger Disabled Individuals
Discrimination Against LGBTQ People
Fear of Contracting Parasites like Lice, Scabies, Pubic Lice, or Bedbugs
Hours of Operation Incompatible with Work Hours
Danger of Rape or Assault
Fear of Contracting Disease
 Lack of Handicapped Accommodations
Some Service Dogs are Barred from Entry


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  • ABOUT
    • About us
    • HOMELESS COMMUNITIES
    • BLOG Homelessness in South Africa
  • SOLUTIONS
    • RE-EMPLOYMENT or SKILLS TRAINING >
      • WORK Opportunities
      • Microloans
      • Work blog
    • REVOLVING STAIRWAY REINTEGRATION MODEL >
      • Revolving Stairway
    • HOUSING FIRST SOLUTIONS >
      • Social Housing in Cape Town
      • Housing First Blog
      • HOUSING FIRST BACKGROUND
      • Housing First - International Donors
    • SAFE SPACES in Capetown >
      • PRE SHELTERS/SAFE SPACES
      • PRIVATE SAFE SPACES MES
      • CoCapetown Built: Safe Spaces Pre Shelter
      • SAFE SPACES BLOG
    • SHELTERS >
      • ENTRY TO SHELTER
      • SHELTERS CAPE TOWN
      • SHELTERS BLOG
      • STREET PEOPLE sometimes incompability with SHELTERS
    • Hunger >
      • Hunger Blog
    • ADDICTION and REHAB >
      • Addiction Causes and Rehab Proposals
    • U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS for HOMELESS
    • LOCAL PUBLIC SUPPORT >
      • SLEEPOUTS in SYMPATHY
      • SEAPOINT FOR ALL
  • COMMUNITY
    • STORIES/ EDITORIALS >
      • Audio Interviews
      • Video interviews
      • Blogs
      • Editorials >
        • No 24/7 ablutions for Homeless in the peninsula
        • Constitutional rights on food sharing
        • Muizenburg Car Guards to lose jobs?
        • drafts >
          • In Bose USA an ordinanace criminalising sleeping outside has been ruled unconstitutional
    • COLLABORATIONS >
      • Collaboration Vision
    • Resources to help people on street >
      • How you can help
    • NPOs Street People
    • SOUP KITCHENS >
      • City Bowl Soup kitchens
      • Atlantic Seaboard Soup kitchens/ Outreaches Cape town
      • Northern Suburb Soup Kitchens Cape town
      • Southern Suburb Soup kitchens/ Outreaches Cape town
      • South Peninsula Soup kitchens/ Outreaches Cape town
      • Cape Flats Soup kitchens/ Outreaches Cape town
      • West Coast Soup kitchens/ Outreaches Cape town
  • Peninsula Street Compassion
    • Peninsula Resources >
      • Peninsula Soup Kitchens and events
    • Weekly Blog Haven collaboration
    • Homelessness in the Peninsula >
      • History/ Background
    • About Us / Objectives
    • our Projects >
      • Volunteer Legends of Fish Hoek
      • Food ticket Collaborations >
        • Haven Kalk Bay Food Tickets
        • Food ticket Sponsors
        • Payments to haven
      • Street Compassion Magazine
      • Journey to Shelter
    • Jobs Wanted >
      • Charles Van der walt
      • Robert de Sousa >
        • CV
        • d waste Experience Recommendation
        • Seamans record book
        • seafarer medical certificate
        • City cape town data collecter contract
        • Sponsor skills development
        • Sponsor Shelter fees
    • Volunteers Donors >
      • Volunteers CAPE PENINSULA STREET COMPASSION GROUP
      • Private Donors
      • behind the scenes
    • Help us / Contact/Soc Media >
      • contact
      • Facebook Peninsula Street Compassion
      • Peninsula Community Events Forum
      • Newsletter Join
    • Collaborations >
      • SRA Marion Thomas Social Worker
      • Rehab - Living Hope Ministeries
    • You tube channel - interviews
  • News /Contact
    • Find a soup kitchen nearest in Cape Town or surrounds -to donate food clothing blankets too or volunteer distributing /making food
    • Contact/ Facebook
    • New Articles
    • Food /water Outreaches >
      • Capetown Day zero Water Street people