Homeless Services
The homeless services and the aftercare system are like a trap to the young people who enter into these drug infested hell holes that the council forces them to stay in. In order to be approved for homeless HAP to progress to getting your own place (and thats a big ‘if’, some have to wait years …) what they have to endure impacts their mental health so badly that when the times comes to get their own place – their mental state is so impacted by the system, they become dysfunctional to the point that they can’t hold down a household.
All the while – they are looked down upon and their state of mind is not taken into consideration because every worker behind every desk and every phone they encounter is out of touch to the harsh reality of the service users circumstances. These workers are in that position in the first place through learning stuff from a book in college and graduating into the work field whilst being out of sync with the people they are supposed to support.
Through this pandemic mainstream society has had to experience what its like to live by regulation and guidelines but the homeless users have been doing this before there was ever a thought of a pandemic. I will continue to bring light to this situation.