Online e-petition details

Homeless - beyond the sticking plasters

We the undersigned petition the council to Put in place methods of combating homelessness beyond the common misconception that the problem is a matter of a roof and walls. Understand there are many different ways in which a homeless person lacks the skills required to maintain that roof and to accept such things as mental health, substance abuse ect... as genuine barriers to realising the potential of each individual which in turn stops each person from finding their rightful place as a productive member of Dover socioty.

In many places, and from both sides of the homeless position i have witnessed one constant truth. Nobody in a position to make an effective change is willing to accept that holding the cracks together with plasters and passing off the responsibility is not, nor will it ever be a solution to the homeless problem. Its about time we all realised that the problems nearly always start with the person and the maintaining of accomodation can only be a positive result of dealing with the barriers whilst ensuring dignity, understanding and patience with most importantly a stable foundation to work from. Until our attitudes change from "they cant be helped, they drink, they do drugs" to "maybe with help we can get them through this" we are all simply guilty of holding people down whilst they drown in their problems and we fail! Just simply Fail!

This Online e-petition ran from 14/03/2017 to 25/04/2017 and has now finished.

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