tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post7500811226942469564..comments2023-08-05T14:36:04.705-07:00Comments on All Our Voices: Moral DilemmaJeff Martinhaukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661661035034398206noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-46644765738173393782015-01-08T18:41:48.828-08:002015-01-08T18:41:48.828-08:00A thought or two.
First, I would like to commend ...A thought or two.<br /><br />First, I would like to commend you on your caring response to this woman as a human being. Many people, Christian and non-Christian alike, would have offered a much different response than yours. I respect your position within your HOA but yet acted in an assertive Christian way to care for this person housing needs if only for those two evening.<br /><br />I fully appreciate the concerns that you have expressed about this morphing into a more complicated situation. I am sure no one in your complex would be in favor of turning your entry way into a small homeless shelter. While this person certainly needs shelter I am sure that she is in need of much more comprehensive care than just a place to rest her head for the evening.<br /><br />The City of San Diego has the HOT teams or Homeless Outreach Teams. These HOT teams are made up of police officers, psychiatric technicians and mental health workers. HOT teams engage homeless individuals like the woman sleeping in your lobby and offer them comprehensive care. The least of them is actively placing them in a shelter. It may be advantageous for this woman if you were to contact the HOT team; you would be provide much more care to her than just a safe place to crash for the night. The website for the HOT team is: http://www.sandiego.gov/homeless-services/programs/hot.shtml <br /><br />Many Blessings,<br /><br />Brian M.Brian Mhttp://mybetterpath.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-30007281425826419742015-01-08T16:15:13.866-08:002015-01-08T16:15:13.866-08:00You post a true moral dilemma and I am grateful th...You post a true moral dilemma and I am grateful that Penny shared this with her FB friends that include seminary classmates. Here are my thoughts and hope they are helpful. <br /><br />1. You posed a real question about a shelter. Here's the thing - do you know where the shelters are? Do you know their conditions for entry? Do you know who might come and pick this woman up to take her there? It's possible that looking into that would help.<br /><br />2. Perhaps a condo meeting to talk about the issue of homelessness might prompt gather information on resources, so if residents felt concerned, they would have access to such information as I outlined above, including some phone numbers. I know that in many ways might seem like both a cop-out from one perspective and too engaged from another, but if this will be an ongoing problem, it isn't a bad thing to try to think about non-polarizing solutions that will both help someone who needs shelter and reassure concerned residents. <br /><br />3. Perhaps concerned residents might do some research into how to contact shelters, volunteer there, make information available to people in the situation that you found this woman in and further action steps. In other words, you would be recognizing a humanitarian concern without demanding that everyone in the building immediately get on board with a specific plan. <br /><br />4. It does you great credit to be concerned about this, and I salute you for it.<br />Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com