[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn

One of the programs I run is a representative payee social service. We have about 800 clients in Spokane and manage their social security and VA disability payments when they are deemed incompetent to do so. These folks range from young adults with developmental disabilities and mom and dad are tired of the fights over money to the most down and out street folks. We have some pretty good physical security in the office and it has paid off many times when folks have behaviors that escalate. The police and local EMT folks know our location well.

Thank you for your service to this person. The combination of mental health and addiction issues is baffling. I have no real answers other than the folks that are non compliant and impacting public health and access to the community should be incarcerated in some way. They live on and pollute public spaces and are in continual cycles of jail, emergency room, mental health inpatient and then turned back out on the street for it to repeat again. Many are veterans. As they age they are prayed upon by the young street punks. The shelters won't take them any more as they've been kicked out of them all.

Well said.