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Breaking my end of the cycle.....hope for the newcomer
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<blockquote data-quote="karisma" data-source="post: 706938" data-attributes="member: 20391"><p>Thank you all for your replies. I do want to inspire hope, as hope is what I have found here. I am in the fortunate position of having a certain degree of detachment just due to circumstances. For instance, my son can not live with me because I live with my boyfriend (who is my ex-husband and my son's step father) who would never allow my son to live there and Difficult Child knows it. So I am not constantly bombarded with requests to stay over and such.</p><p></p><p>I also live in Arizona where it is warm most of the year. I want to share something I learned about the "system" and it may or may not apply to another region but it is something I did not know until recently.</p><p></p><p>My best friend works for a company that gets homeless people instantaneous and lifelong housing vouchers. This particular company only works with the non-SMI population, because SMI housing vouchers are obtained another way.</p><p></p><p>This is how it works: A person has to register with the shelter system here, but is not required to be staying there, just registered with them. This action alone puts them on a list for housing, but it's a very long list. </p><p></p><p>However, if this person has a "crisis" (calls the crisis line for anything at all), they instantly go onto a different list and generally are in their own apartment within two weeks.</p><p></p><p>The crisis can be anything they consider a crisis, just calling the crisis line is what moves them to the front of the line.</p><p></p><p>Difficult Child remains homeless by his own choice in spite of this. Baffling. </p><p></p><p>Hope it is useful to someone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="karisma, post: 706938, member: 20391"] Thank you all for your replies. I do want to inspire hope, as hope is what I have found here. I am in the fortunate position of having a certain degree of detachment just due to circumstances. For instance, my son can not live with me because I live with my boyfriend (who is my ex-husband and my son's step father) who would never allow my son to live there and Difficult Child knows it. So I am not constantly bombarded with requests to stay over and such. I also live in Arizona where it is warm most of the year. I want to share something I learned about the "system" and it may or may not apply to another region but it is something I did not know until recently. My best friend works for a company that gets homeless people instantaneous and lifelong housing vouchers. This particular company only works with the non-SMI population, because SMI housing vouchers are obtained another way. This is how it works: A person has to register with the shelter system here, but is not required to be staying there, just registered with them. This action alone puts them on a list for housing, but it's a very long list. However, if this person has a "crisis" (calls the crisis line for anything at all), they instantly go onto a different list and generally are in their own apartment within two weeks. The crisis can be anything they consider a crisis, just calling the crisis line is what moves them to the front of the line. Difficult Child remains homeless by his own choice in spite of this. Baffling. Hope it is useful to someone. [/QUOTE]
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