The Samaritan Ministries received a well deserved Presidential Citation for excellent services to the community and it's clients. Case management and a stay time long enough for most clients to help themselves; clean; and well run with case management makes this a well funded professional facility.

Wayne Huizenga Campus was created through a generous donation by Mr. Wayne Huizenga Foundation-owner of the Miami Dolphina & Blockbuster Video. The facility resembles a major hotel with indoor courtyard and fountain and could be considered a model facility and has a unique relationship with the Fort Lauderdale Police DepartmentPersons seeking shelter must apply at the Police Department after 5PM and after an NCIC check successful canidates are taken in a patrol car to the Wayne Huizenga Campus-where they walk in through metal detector. Clients may have several day wait until processed in by case managers into a program meeting their particular needs and are given guest ID which permits them to enter and leave the facility at will. The shelter has a variety of programs in house covering different needs Clients can stay up to 60 days with extensions possible as merited.

This link The policy suggested is that clients who are employable must seek long term gainful employment The Las Vegas Rescue Mission is a model for long term employment which in 1993 reported paying clients $200,000 in salary. The Las Vegas Rescue Mission has a job contractor on site who employies only clients of the Mission at special jobs such as the Basketball Arena or Convention Center. Clients who work cannot participate in this program if they drink or drug and must place their monies in a join Savings Account with the Rescue Mission. The program requires clients to save a given precentage of their income towards their graduation from the program or securing outside employment.

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What are some of the possible advantages of using shipping containers for low income housing? There are millions of them; they can be converted into housing; they are cheaper than traditional housing and are practically indestructible: An interesting article reviews some of the options online This Link

The President George Bush Sr created the "Thousands Points of Light Program" which encouraged volunteer networks to address serious social problems of the 1990's. These are examples of model facilities located during the The National Survey of Social Services from (1986-1996)

NATIONAL NEWSARTICLE
Sunday, November 20th, 1988
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Associated Press
MEDFORD, ORE- In his wandering from San Diego to Seattle Chris Walters has surveyed homeless shelters and developed ideas about how to make them better.

"I'm not doing just a survey" says Walters from a phone
booth in Stockton, California."I live there. I'm a homeless person too."

James Harris, Manager of Oregon's Homeless Program, says Walters has provided information about the needs and movements of the homeless and transients on the I-5 Corridor - information that officials wouldn't get otherwise

"I think he's doing a public service".
Walters said he worked in security for 10 years as a clerk in a bank in Florida before hitting the road. After a six month stint as a motel clerk in 1986, he was back on the road again. "If you were looking at me, you couldn't tell I was homeless." He said on the telephone."You would assume I worked in a bank or something. The only thing that would give me away would be my disintegrating tennis shoes."

His office is a notebook he carried in a small duffle bag along with a change of clothes and a few personal items.

In His travels he distributes his reports on homeless shelters
to city managers, county supervisors, social-service
departments, Congressmen, Senators, Libraries, and Newspapers
He applauds a decision in California to open National Guard Armories as shelters on cold nights and would like to see other states do the same. "It keeps people from freezing to death, " he said. Walters ranks Oregon first in the West in helping homeless men to go back to work, followed by Nevada, Arizona, Washington, and California.

He said the short time a person can stay in a shelter makes it harder for him or her to settle down and get a job. "When a homeless person is in Medford and his five days are up, he's not going to starve to death or freeze to death at night,"
Walters said, "He's going to go north to Roseburg or south to Redding. Most homeless move around because the homeless system is set up to encourage them to move around. He would like to see shelters allow one 30 day stay a year, so people can get a job and start a life for themselves.