During the last few months homeless service providers to Jacksonville residents went through harsh facts to face when funding was cut from what was received in prior years. It's caused tension, fat trimmed in some cases, and loss of valuable people in other situations when service providers have hard decisions to make based on fewer dollars to work with.
One thing I'm starting to see more frequently are employees in the service provider field beginning to network online using services such as Linkedin.com and Facebook.com. For some this is a fresh step into unknown territory, for others it's an obvious 'coming out' of internet experience they hadn't a need or felt comfortable with displaying themselves so publicly.
The way I see it, within the next ten years, employees of non profit service providers will be reduced to 90% over time with those employees either out of the 'homeless cycle' field or transitioning in to mental health services. Twenty years from now will show a change of increased mental health services that will have quadrupled in caseloads successfully handled.
Of course there's plenty of people that would 'spin' their own version of the future, just like the ones that spun running people out of Skid Row in Los Angeles made the city safer...thousands of homeless people don't just disappear in to thin air...they just blend in to adjacent neighborhoods better to avoid detection.
Some people just need an exit sign to know when to get off the bus sometimes.
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