Put your aces in their places

Since it's getting colder and students from high school to undergraduate have a chance to burn fat, there's an increase of awareness through 'sleep outs'.

Depending on who's relating their perspective, readers have a tendency to either 'buy in' or become critical...towards both the subject demographic as well as participants.

There's also the spin put out by recent increases of non-profit agencies using Twitter, Facebook, and other online social sites. Connecting to supporting businesses, potential private and public funders, etc.

It needs to be mentioned that while some agencies employ people later they sometimes serve, doing so serves the business. The bigger an agency gets, the tendency of more people becoming job scared behind a desk.

Homelessness is a business niche. While some businesses having outreach programs are equipped to do the job with offices, vehicles, and the overhead cost needed...I gotta ask:

Why do I constantly see vehicles that should be 'in the field' parked outside an agency's door the majority of the week? Or used to shuttle employees to multiple regularly scheduled meetings monthly? What about the free lunches and buffets?

I see the people on the street. I see them in hotels. I see them when I walk the sidewalk in the woods to my side where they camp, where they call home. Not in my neighborhood, but throughout Jacksonville's other areas I frequent by it's transit system.

...and the vehicle that should be here outreaching isn't. It may be seen driving through downtown at times, but when it's so easily visible when and where it shouldn't be...

...doesn't anybody care?

Get rid of vans and sedans sitting useless. Reimburse people for gas. Get them where they are needed to do their job.

Out of the office and on the streets.

Of course there's gonna be professional lunches. Hitting the streets instead of parking the vehicle and getting behind a desk immediately...it just feels right.