A fifteen year old shelter resident wrote...

Living in the shelter can be hard or it can be easy.  It all depends on your outlook on things.  For instance, you may be told that one of the workers in mean, but once you get to know them you realize just how nice they really are.  Well, except for when you don't follow the rules!!  And you can't do anything except respect them for the love of their job and the love for the kids. They all have their own responisbilities and still yet they say, "If you ever need anything at all you know where to reach me."  Now is that not going above and beyond the call of duty or what?  Well, whatever you think about the shelter, just know that it is a place for everyone who sees no hope in anything anymore to see just how much their worth and see how much hope there really is.  The shelter makes you see what a home should be with loving and caring people, it is the thing it is called...A Shelter...A shelter from all the evil and cruelty of the world.

Another client, who was being seen as part of his probation stated ...

"I am off of probation in a month but I have asked my probation officer if I can keep coming to counseling with you guys because I think it's helping."