Must Ministries Shelter in Cobb County was okay. Once we received a room and followed the rules everything else was manageable.
First, my child and I waited to receive a room but rooms were not available. We sat in an office space for hours until finally, at the end of the day, we were provided a voucher for Sun Inn. The hotel provided everything that we needed, the only thing, it was roach infested. The smell of the room was not so pleasant. There were so many roaches crawling everywhere to the point we had to go sleep in my car at Walmart because my child was so scared and screaming.
The next day we sat again for a long time until finally we were provided a room. It was an extreme challenge with my roommate, soon after, I was transferred to a different room. My new roommate and her daughter was so loving. The one good thing that I did while I was there was Braid her daughters hair in a stylish way on her birthday.
I stayed thirty-one days with no stable housing after following the rules. Actually, on the last day, I was stood up by a staff member. I was given a note to see my case manager at 8am. I arrived and stayed there fifteen minutes after then left. At about 9am, I received a call from my case manager in attempts to resolve my issue. Unfortunately, I was driving then asked her if I could call her back. Guess what? I called her back several times with no answer. I even reported this to management with attempts to speak with a manager. I left several messages but no one ever called me back to resolve any of my complaints. In my opinion, they did not care at all.
I was given a number to call Catholic Charities. I filled out their forms with all my information, only for them to tell me that they could not help me. The woman who attempted to help me was very unprofessional. The program provides a bed at a different Catholic church every week. Each week a different location, but never stable.
While I was there a black woman dealing with domestic violence called for help but I doubt if she received help because I didn’t. My husband was there giving his information too while thinking we were going to receive stable housing as a citizen of the United States of America.
One day, I missed breakfast by ten minutes but I saw several volunteers stacking their trunks with styrofoam plated of food. My littleone and I walked in to get some food but the cafeteria manager told us we were late. Be mindful this was our first day. I thought she would have asked the volunteers walking out then stacking their trunks with food would be kind enough to offer us a plate but no. We were left hungry that day.
A black man saw what happened to me and my child then became furious. He said, “I can’t believe they won’t even feed y’all, you have a kid that not right. He mentioned alot of other facts that were not pleasant about the shelter.
The only problem my child experienced physically was he had pain in his upper arm for some odd reason. Also, there was this white cop with a dog that kept asking me personal information about my son.
The strange thing that happened while my child rode his bike, multiple white people in their cars kept turning into the parking lot to look at my tag then they would leave out of the parking lot without even going into the shelter.
We had one shelter meeting which told the Facts that more that 50% of the people who live in shelters comes from different states to get help. Well I’m a native and I did not receive the help that I deserved as a citizen of the United States of America.
Have you ever had a good or bad experience at a shelter in Georgia? If so, I want to hear about it.
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