Find Your Way To The Center

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The problems of finding a place in a shelter is mirrored in the social safety net. Everybody can get help from some source. However, it depends on who you are, what category of person you belong to and which department of government is responsible. What people must do is ASK, ASK and ASK. Ask your Support Service Manager. Ask a Human Services Department representative. Ask a Neighborhood Counselor. Ask your Elected representatives. You will find that even knowledgeable people who want to help don't know everything. This goes for obtaining help, not just for EBT, but in obtaining microwaves, tenant problems and so forth. People in the Tenderloin don't want to ASK. Maybe they are immigrants, ex-cons, fleeing felons, or, most likely, they are frightened of losing what they have already have by letting another people, officials, into their lives. Many people of the Tenderloin consider the City Government to be their enemy. They don't respond to Outreach attempts; and Outreach is expensive with return on results. They just continue on in "the status-quo of stagnation". Eventually, the benefits complexity will be simplified. In the meantime, what is the best thing to do? Extend the message to Central Market residents; ASK, ASK and ASK again. It is in your interests.