In my community, we have two homeless shelters. One is a low-barrier shelter and the other a high-barrier shelter. At these shelters, which are usually full, people have a bed, meals, showers and laundry services. What they don’t have is a good ratio of case managers and/or peer support specialists per resident. A shelter is fortunate if they
have even as few as two case managers.
So, my question is: How are homeless individuals that reside in the bigger shelters supposed to exit homelessness? Quite simply, they don’t. They remain “stuck” in their environment as well as stuck in their way of thinking. As a former shelter case manager, I have seen this time and time again. A revolving door that offers no hope for…