HARASSMENT AGAINTS HOMELESS PEOPLE,

Posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 4:13pm CDT by c791fa17

Company: New USA

Location: US

Category: Other

THERE HAS BEEN CONSTANT HARASSMENT AGAINST HOMELESS PEOPLE, INCLUDING MY SON. SHOULD NOT THERE BE A LAW AGAINST THIS PROBLEM?

WHY ISN'T THERE? SOME OF THESE HOMELESS

MEN ARE VETERANS, SOME FROM PRISON, ALL

LIKE MY SON, HAVE NO PLACE TO GO BUT TO

STAY OVER NIGHT IN SHELTERS IF THERE IS

ROOM? WHEN THESE SHELTERS COME FULL AND THREE OF THEM ESPECIALLY ARE, WHAT IS LEFT FOR THEM? ONE OF THEM IS BEING THREATENED WITH CLOSURE. MY SON HAS BEEN TARGETED AND HARASSED IN EACH SHELTER

THAT HE HAS BEEN IN. THERE HAD BEEN

ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE WHICH WOULD HAVE

GOTTEN HIM OUT OF THIS CYCLE, BUT THE

SOCIAL WORKER GAVE STATEMENTS THAT WERE

NOT TRUTHFUL, IT HAD BEEN FELT. THE

LAST TIME THAT MY SON SPOKE, SHE GAVE

HIM HOPE; THEN TURNED IT AROUND WHEN HE

HAD CONTACTED HER TODAY; AT ONE TIME,

SHE STATED THAT THERE WAS A PARTIAL

APPLICATION; THEN TODAY, STATED THAT

THERE WAS NONE AND THAT SHE WOULD HAVE

TO TELL OTHERS THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE

ACCEPTED; THEN SHE TOLD MY SON THAT

BECAUSE HE DID NOT ACCEPT AN APARTMENT

THERE, THAT SHE HAD TO REFUSE HIM ANY

POSSIBILITIES. I THINK THAT THIS

SOCIAL WORKER IS GIVING MY SON A "COP

OUT" TO AS TO REFUSE HIM ANY POSSIBILITIES OF BETTERING HIMSELF

SHOULD HE FIND WORK, ETC. AFTER ALL,

WHAT IS A SOCIAL WORKER FOR EXCEPT TO

GIVE SOME GUIDANCE AND HOPE FOR GETTING

OUT OF HIS CURRENT SITUATION. SOMEONE

NEEDS TO CHECK INTO THE STATEMENT MADE

BY HER THERE.


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