IFC’s family house screens
Posted by Tomsic on April 10, 2008
Interfaith Council screens its residents before accepting them into its shelter.
Other organizations have had to step down their aid to the homeless after running into problems screening them.
The council hasn’t run into the same problems because of the process they use to screen families.
Coordinators get family’s basic information, look at their situation, how long they’ve been calling and the consistency that they’ve been checking back, said Megan Clarke, the coordinator for the family shelter.
The shelter is the only one of its kind in Orange County, which makes Clarke’s job difficult when she has to turn families away, she said.
“Trying to figure out how to choose one family out of the 30 (waiting) is the most difficult,” she said.
Clarke refers the families to other places if they need immediate help, but often they have to wait until a spot opens up, she said.
For more information, see Clarke’s comment on the Corrections section.
