SAMHSA News: Initiative Helps End Chronic Homelessness

12/26/2012 4:10 PM

A professional from a Non-Profit/Community Based Organization/Coalition said:

Segregation is not the answer for the mentally ill homeless, Or the drug addicted, disease control is one of the major problems we face with drug infested areas and that must be controlled, Somewhat as they do in Seattle Washington, They give out syringes at the day clinics and that does keep down the spread of AIDs, And as far as the mentally ill, Scottland has a wonderfull program that keeps all the clients up to date on there resources, they have art classes and many things to make the mentally ill wan to come there everyday, As a matter of fact they don't call them clients or partients they call it partnering with them and they treat them all with the utmost respect as friends and they make them feel as if they belong there, They also furnish ways to and means to support them in many ways, This also saves the goverment money and makes the homeless and the ill feel as if they have worth to the community, Somehow someday if I can ever get a grant i will model there programs as close as possible to the way they run there's in Scotland. There are proper ways that things can be done to get people to repair there selves to some extent. I am sort of a computer expert and it is actullay a very easy thing to teach , I want to teach everyone i can if I had the means I could put hundreds of people back to work almost single highhandedly and that is the truth. What we need is vision into the problems and to use some of the new ideas that people have. I have been homeless at one time and i have also had bouts with other problems, Sometimes it just takes someone to help you a little and then the person will do even more to help themselves.