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Date<\/strong>: 3\/3\/17 Male, middle aged<\/p>\n Retired firefighter, part-time pastor<\/p>\n Summary of Interview Key Takeaways Memorable Quotes \u201cThere are requirements they have to do, go to classes and go to Oak Lawn and go through what is called IOP, intensive outpatient program and it\u2019s a good program, but you can\u2019t force somebody to change their life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a six month program they go through [Hope Ministries] and if they do that and they graduate they can live there for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBringing them in at 8 o\u2019clock at night and kicking them out in the morning isn\u2019t the thing to do because during the day they\u2019re panhandling, doing their drugs and alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey need to send people out in the field and talk to these homeless people and give them a program\u2014you can\u2019t tell them to go and do this and do that\u2026they\u2019re not used to showering, used to doing laundry, it\u2019s like training a child again. You forget these people are coming from the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t force them, you can\u2019t change somebody, they\u2019re going to have to want to change.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe city is trying to do a quick fix\u2026there is no structure, no professional people, no counseling to help these people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date: 3\/3\/17 Type: Expert Interview Location: Downtown Soup Kitchen at First United Methodist Church User: Robert Powell is a part-time pastor at the First United Methodist Church where the soup kitchen is held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yuwei, Paul, and I interviewed him to get his expertise on the homeless population he comes into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-city-of-south-bend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nType<\/strong>: Expert Interview
\nLocation<\/strong>: Downtown Soup Kitchen at First United Methodist Church
\nUser<\/strong>: Robert Powell is a part-time pastor at the First United Methodist Church where the soup kitchen is held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yuwei, Paul, and I interviewed him to get his expertise on the homeless population he comes into contact with almost every day.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>One of the biggest issues with South Bend\u2019s homeless population is drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, and Give the homeless population
\nmotivation to want to change by giving them the resources to do so. A good example of a structured progra for the homeless population is Hope Ministries. They give people a place to sleep and provide meals, but they require residents to take classes in order to better themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Many of the city\u2019s resources are not wholesome enough to keep homeless people off the streets. Places like the Center for the Homeless\u00a0give the homeless a place to sleep for the night, but it does not stop them from panhandling during the day. These places give them no structure or incentive to live more independently and responsibly.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSome of them [homeless people that stay at the Methodist Church] come from drug court. They have alcohol and drug problems. Rather than the judge send them to jail because they\u2019re good people, they send them upstairs.\u201d<\/p>\n