WEBVTT 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:08.960 Tell us, how did you find out about the 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:10.760 Gateway or the Housing Navigation 00:00:10.760 --> 00:00:12.160 Center? How did you originally find out 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.160 about it and what what was going on in 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:15.000 your lives? 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.320 Kind of a traumatic event. Starting like 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.600 back It was in October. She got shot. 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:22.400 Oh my goodness. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:23.840 On my front porch. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:25.240 On our front porch. We lived there for 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:27.400 13 years and 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:31.680 that started the down here spiral and 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:33.440 had a friend that knew 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:34.640 you know 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:36.240 about the Gateway and how to 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:37.880 go through the process. 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.360 And then we've been here 00:00:40.360 --> 00:00:42.000 going through the process. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.320 This is my second time of being 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:45.600 homeless. That was almost 20 years ago. 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.120 But anybody that's been down that path, 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:48.560 you don't know how exhausted you are 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.400 when you finally get a place to sit down 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:52.560 it and not have to worry about it. It's 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.320 It's been so positive from the time we 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.040 walked through the door. There's been 00:00:56.040 --> 00:00:59.000 nothing negative. Just everything 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.160 to put you back where where you were 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:03.960 before you walked in the door. 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.640 So what have they been working with you 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.320 on in the the center in terms of you 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:09.640 know 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.200 during the day? So you're there and you 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:13.560 know how are they trying to help you 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:14.680 rebuild things? 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.960 Because we got evicted so quickly I 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:18.520 didn't you know 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:19.800 the one the couple of things I left 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:20.880 behind was in my birth certificate my 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:22.480 social so they're helping me get that. 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.120 They helped me get on to 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.240 while we're in this situation EBT 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:30.800 and that kind of thing. Um and then I'm 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:32.640 doing they're helping with job search. I 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.560 cannot believe how positive and how it 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.200 They pay attention to everything. 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.600 I guess I wasn't in my normal mood and 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:42.400 one of the the employees pulled me, are 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.120 you okay? Is there something we can do? 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:45.840 Is there something we're not doing? 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:46.840 They're very attentive. They pay 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:48.720 attention to your personality. They pay 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:50.040 attention to make sure that you're okay 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:51.160 and what's going on. 00:01:51.160 --> 00:01:52.360 What would you say is the biggest 00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:55.200 misconception about the center? 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.480 I've heard everything from it's a money 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.360 pit to a waste of taxpayers' money to 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:02.640 and it's not a money pit and they do do 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:03.600 ex- 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:06.200 exceptional. I was here for 3 hours. I 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.360 had a case manager. 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.440 I was on my way to getting you know, EBT 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:13.520 and all that. It's 3 hours into being 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.160 here. 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:16.800 So, how don't tell me they're not doing 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:17.360 anything. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.040 The again, the biggest challenge right 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:21.480 now is just getting housing. But again, 00:02:21.480 --> 00:02:23.040 through that eviction 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:25.680 is first and foremost. And I think 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.360 they're just being here is going to 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.680 allow us to kind of breathe and breathe 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.240 out with that and be able to focus on 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:32.920 how we're going to get make it through 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:34.640 that with the barriers that we might 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:37.000 have.