Ooh I’m kinda pissed
Last request of the day is a shelter for single women with children that’s managed by WOMEN, this fact becomes important later
They say you gotta assess this lady who hasn’t been taking her meds and has been self-injuring. But the client doesn’t want to talk to me, which is her right. So the shelter sends in their Clinical Director lady who comes in all stern like “this is what’s happening next. You haven’t kept your room up to our cleanliness standards, for example your mirrors have spots, and we are not equipped to deal with your occasional self-harm behaviors”….we are not equipped to deal with these behaviors is just a clinical way to say we’re dunzo, we’re done putting up with your shit. She then went on to say how witnessing the client scratch herself is distressing for the staff and other residents
Ok fair enough so far. Im sure they aren’t kicking out the autistic child who hits his own head in anger but whatever. Then the lady says my staff will be transporting you and your belongings to CASS (emergency homeless shelter)
I so regret not being able to talk to that clinical director because I sooo wanted to tell her “Ok let’s go ahead and play this out. This young decent looking 24 year old lady with 12 fucking bags of her life’s belongings gets dumped at 6pm at night in the most dangerous part of Phoenix AFTER the overflow shelter has already closed for the day. Worst case scenario all her stuff gets stolen in front of her and she gets raped, probably about a 20% chance of that. Best case scenario the 100 or so homeless people around her happen to be sober and kind enough to NOT try to steal her stuff right in front of her, and if she can stay up the entire night laying on top of her stuff, she keeps it. However once she falls asleep, all that shit’s gone. All of it”
Thank God this gal hadn’t burned her bridges with her parents completely and they agreed for me to drive her 50 fucking minutes the wrong direction from my office to unload her and her stuff and their house. I can’t believe the female staff at a shelter for women was willing to let this gal get fucked (quite literally) with such a prompt and poorly-timed eviction
Rant over. Felt good to be able to help at least, only now way over shift and my night is screwed up
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