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HEAR FROM OUR CLIENTS ABOUT THEIR HOUSING
Experiencing Homelessness:
- Was on the streets since 2018
- Did not access shelters, chose to sleep under a bridge and required a wheel chair to get around
- Completed the detox program with the Drop-In
- Experienced server frost bite, causing him to lose is his toes and ability to walk, experienced sever pain
- Jeff got access to more health resources since being housed, including mobility boots (Idk what to call them?) which have allowed him to walk again and not be in as much pain
What is your favourite part about living in Providence:
- Having friends
- “happy to be off the streets”
Hobbies:
- Cooking: things like fries, bacon, steaks, porkchops
- Being housed meant he can cook again
- Prison break
Holiday Traditions:
- Excited to “eat well” – referring to turkey
- Hasn’t celebrated the holidays in a few years, but he will this year being at providence
- He’ll help cook the providence turkey
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Experiencing Homelessness:
- Was fortunate to not have to be on the streets for very long before accessing housing
- Was blind when moved into providence
- Since being housed she’s had many eye surgeries that have helped save her site in one eye (corneal retinal replacement, cataracts, glass eye on July 6, 2024
What is your favourite part about living in Providence:
- “The 3 S’s: Safety, Security and Stability”
- “having my own four walls, privacy, and quiet time. The quiet time is a way to collect my thoughts in a calm manor, about my personal health.”
Hobbies:
- Talked a lot about Brad Elder?
- Attended community sweat
Holiday Traditions:
- Polish Christmas: cabbage rolls
- Last year, made handmade ordainments, decorations, and felt snowmen
- This year wants to do a building-wide secret Santa, seasonal piñata (?)
- Make a Star Blanket where everyone does their own patch then they put them together
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