-: My name is Marlene Moore Collins, I am a LMSW.
Right now I am a Program Manager for the Renewal House.
Which is a homeless transition program
for persons 58 and older.
You're bringing them to a place where they can smile,
where they can walk around with their head up.
Where they don't feel like, you know what I'm homeless,
I'm really nobody.
I've had people say that, like we're not even counted,
in society, we're kinda like off the map.
Just seeing the joy of
them getting ready to find a place.
The joy of taking them shopping,
saying you know what, we need to get a new bed.
Just the joy of saying like wow, you know what,
I'm really gonna be on my own.