Winnipeg | Of Interest

[Mabel.]

Originally Posted by neutroniks

Street Links also needs to help clean up the mess they create. It's great they hand out meals and supplies but they should really encourage the homeless population to at least help clean up after themselves. They were serving meals on Main, and it was just littered with paper cups and plates all around Logan & Main. They can dive into dumpsters, but can't be bothered to put anything back.

This is happening worse and worse on Portage/Maryland too

[pspeid]

Cleaning up after one's self implies a sense of responsibility to the greater community. I think it's a good idea, but I can imagine two broad types of responses from the recipients of the meals.

1-a sense of personal pride over having returned a kindness with another kindness
2-a sense of resentment for being asked to "work" for a meal they might think barely qualifies as meeting their needs

I guess it all depends on how the request to clean up after one's self is presented.

[drew]

^ These organizations (Street Links and Agape Table) are the ones that should be responsible to clean up the messes ultimately. It should be part of the service they provide. Send out the meals/food/etc., and then have several hours each day dedicated to clean up in the general vicinity.

[wags_in_the_peg]

^ I disagree, if I buy my kid a slurpee and he tosses the empty cup on the ground, (1) he will get a slap from me and (2) i won't buy him another until i know he has learned and wont toss it on ground. Boom, problem solved. maybe eliminated the slap, but you litter you don't get the handouts, plain and simple

sending people out to pickup trash shoudl be them. for every garbage bag you bring back, you get sandwich and coffee. be a contributing member of society. yeah due to circumstances you may not hold down a job but stop causing issues for all others to deal with

[drew]

^ is said kid a addict living on the streets?

[wags_in_the_peg]

Originally Posted by drew

^ is said kid a addict living on the streets?

so an addict is incapable of picking up their own garbage? their brain is that fried 24/7? if so then they need to be off the streets

[WayneShuster]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

so an addict is incapable of picking up their own garbage? their brain is that fried 24/7?

Many of them truly are, yes.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by WayneShuster

Many of them truly are, yes.

yes and no.

what u need is flexable programing not ridgid to work with people to usw it as a hook to help them find dignity in taking pide in the streets they call home be surprized how powerfull that can be for someoneat rock bottom but this can also be a way to find the realy messed up ones that at sick and need to be hospitalized insome cases institutionalize temp or perm

[borkborkbork]

i'm suspicious of anyone who thinks they have a "boom, problem solved" to substance use and disorder on the streets.

everyone i know who works in this space seems to treat it as, what's that line from argo, "we're looking for the best bad idea"?