-: You're helping them get housing.
You're helping them to be self sufficient.
And they probably haven't been that way in awhile.
You're restoring their pride.
So you're bringing 'em to a place
where as they can smile,
they can walk around with their head up.
Where they don't feel like, you know what,
I'm homeless, I'm really nobody.
And I've had people say that.
Like we're not even counted, you know, in society.
We're kinda like off the map.
So just seeing the joy of
them getting ready to find a place.
You know, the joy of taking 'em shopping,
saying you know what, we need to get a new bed.
Like we need...
Just the joy of saying like wow, you know what?
I'm really gonna be on my own.
And it's a two year program.
So for two years, I'm good.
So when that two years starts creepin',
they're really, some of them are really not ready
to go on their own.
So I find that that's the biggest challenge
is the ones that's not ready to go on their own.
Kinda tell them like you know what,
we need to work on this.
Like, you know I know you may not feel.
But we also offer them outside counseling,
because if they do have that anxiety.
We offer budgeting,
we offer nutrition advice.
We seek a lotta outside sources
and we also make sure that each
individual that's a resident,
that they volunteer somewhere within the community,
so that they have their own ties.
So it's just not to the Renewal Program.
So that's the biggest challenge,
is people just feeling safe, just feeling comfortable.
Which is no fault of theirs,
'cause they probably have been homeless for a moment.
So now they have this program,
which basically is supplying their needs,
and it's a family atmosphere,
so some of them it's hard,
because they don't really wanna think past that,
and they wanna stay as long as they can.