04-02-2020, 12:44 PM
From the article:
"Given the rate of destruction and shortages of overall supplies which includes cleaners, toilet paper and personal protection equipment (PPE) for staff, the DLNR/DOBOR may not be able to keep additional SBH facilities open through April 30, unless homeless communities or service providers step up to help take care of them.
If any community groups would like to help for any DLNR restrooms or other public restrooms, contact the Behavioral Health and Homelessness Statewide Unified Response Group (BHH-SURG) at https://bhhsurg.hawaii.gov/."
So the state is, rightly or wrongly, framing the fact that the toilets are being kept open as related to homelessness. It is less clear that they are blaming the vandalism on the homeless, but I have spoken many times with social service providers who say that their mentally ill homeless clients regularly trash facilities of all sorts provided for them. Some of you may call this inhumane or "blaming the victim," but it is a fact.
"Given the rate of destruction and shortages of overall supplies which includes cleaners, toilet paper and personal protection equipment (PPE) for staff, the DLNR/DOBOR may not be able to keep additional SBH facilities open through April 30, unless homeless communities or service providers step up to help take care of them.
If any community groups would like to help for any DLNR restrooms or other public restrooms, contact the Behavioral Health and Homelessness Statewide Unified Response Group (BHH-SURG) at https://bhhsurg.hawaii.gov/."
So the state is, rightly or wrongly, framing the fact that the toilets are being kept open as related to homelessness. It is less clear that they are blaming the vandalism on the homeless, but I have spoken many times with social service providers who say that their mentally ill homeless clients regularly trash facilities of all sorts provided for them. Some of you may call this inhumane or "blaming the victim," but it is a fact.