Yes, the big challenge is how to help those who refuse the help. I suspect the percentage of those who refuse help is much higher than we imagine.
This issue is so complicated.
Yes, the big challenge is how to help those who refuse the help. I suspect the percentage of those who refuse help is much higher than we imagine.
This issue is so complicated.
Having worked a little with services to this sector of society, I think you have it backwards. The percentage of those that would be benefitted by help is much higher than the political propoganda suggests. But the depression, sense of abandomement, angst, and feeling of helplessness starts to become the norm and it's a spiral down. It seems like the need to judge is way greater than the need to help in our society.
This Frontline documentary is almost 20 years old, but it shows vividly the massive failure of turning to jails to address homelessness, especially for those with mental healthy issues. A significant number of homeless people who need mental health support, not incarceration. Our society has to dedicate resources to mental health care, or we end up paying massive amounts to destroy people's lives by putting them in jail.
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