Good Morning. My name
is Marnee and I am a graduate of the Lincoln Park Community Shelter and I am
here to tell you why LPCS is important to me. There are three main reasons.
After floundering for awhile,
I came to the Lincoln Park Community Shelter from another shelter, so first what
made LPCS important was the ability to stay longer than 4 months. I was going back to school and needed to have
a home base for longer than that. Most
shelters are for 4 months. Once you move
in you almost immediately have to start looking for another place for after
those 4 months. These places are not
easy to find or once found not easy to get into. Luckily for me, LPCS had an undesignated
amount of time stay. This lifted a lot
of stress off of me. I was there for 11
months.
Secondly, in that time
I found I had an opportunity to work on me.
LPCS has several programs to help you and move yourself in the direction
you want to go. I had some emotional and
physical problems that I vigorously worked on. I took advantage of the groups and programs
offered and started to build a foundation and for the first time in my life laid
down a path to work on that I am still following today.
And thirdly ……They found
me a place (EHP) to continue on. After
11 months I did what I could and they did what they could for me. My case worker at the time found me another program
to help me further.
Today I am now
secure. I am on social security
disability; I have a roof over my head, food in the refrigerator, and a bus
pass in my pocket. For the first time in
my life I can honestly say I’m ok, and it feels great.
I could not have done
what I have achieved without the aid of LPCS.
Thank you God for this
moment and thank you all for listening.
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