Weekly highlights
Monday June 4: One of our moms who is highly CPS involved packed up and left this morning. We attempted to get a forwarding location but was denied. CPS was informed.
Tuesday June 5:
Wednesday June 6: We served three young ladies in our overflow. When we checked into things one of them was underage. I talked with the police and they confirmed that we could continue to house them since none of them are reported run aways.
Thursday June 7: Our mission from God came to a completion. Things are starting to get back to normal. One of our guests made some strong racial slurs and upset most of the ladies in her room. Racist remarks do lead a guest to be asked to leave automatically. She said that she was joking but we let her know that we take these sorts of things seriously and racial jokes or comments are not funny.
Friday June 8: One of our guests began demonstrating a habit for having critical needs anytime that she is supposed to be somewhere (small group, bed time, etc). Her needs generally were things like a comb, toothbrush or to ask a question about policies.
Weekend: One of our guests had been given a couple of extra days to get her ID (Usually we give guests 7 days to get their ID but with so much going on we lost track of the fact that we still hadn’t seen it) On the ninth day she still didn’t have ID and was given a few more hours to get one. When she had not shown up at the allotted time she was packed up. Right at check in she showed up. I brought out her tote and her suitcase. She began packing up her suitcase and then began accusing me of stealing her Potassium pills and her Bible. I made the attempt to explain that I didn’t need either of those items. She became agitated to the point that I let her know that we would need to call the police if she didn’t calm down. Eventually the police were called and the officer was very patient with her for about an hour of discussion. The officer and I went into her former room and looked around as well as our storage place to make sure that it had not fallen out. In the midst of all of this I checked in a new family, packed up bedding from 3 moms that moved out during that time (not related to the incident) and helped serve a wide array of assorted guest needs. When the guest was finally ready to leave the officer asked me about a resource list and I went to print one out for him but the copier jammed. It wouldn’t work for about 5 minutes and he decided to go talk to the young lady for a bit longer and I finally got the list printed. She left peacefully after that.
General comments: This past week was very stressful and emotionally exhausting. We are praying and hoping for a quiet couple of weeks.
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