Your assistance of our clients is
limited to your role work description as a staff or volunteer. As you work
obediently and live among our clients your behavior and interaction encourages
clients and reinforces the teachings and lessons they receive from shelter
staff and their counselors. You play a supporting role in the clients
transition and program life.
Clients have volunteered to submit
themselves to the New Life Program requirements and responsibilities
administered by the Shelter Staff. Clients have agreed to submit themselves to
the immediate oversight of the Shelter Staff, with the assistance of the
Ministry Chaplain, in regards to their spiritual, emotional, mental and
material needs. This means that they look to these staff people, only, for
guidance, recommendations and permission in all areas of their program while
residing at our Rescue Mission.
While in their Programs, these
clients are not to be directly offered any material assistance or help of any
kind. Clients must complete their programs without your assistance and within
the strict guidelines established by this Mission and agreed to by the
client. If clients approach you with any
request for anything, you are to turn down the request and notify the Shelter
Staff of such a request, so that corrective steps can be taken with the client
as needed.
Clients in Phase II still require
permission to be off site when not working. They are required to get permission
to accept or change jobs, visit family or others and be off site at church or
other activities. Any assistance you wish to provide clients must first be
approved by the Shelter Staff. This will ensure clients are maintaining their
program agreement and moving in the direction they have communicated to Staff. It
is their responsibility to determine the client's need and whether your
assistance will be beneficial and consistent with the clients program goals.
Assistance that relates to this memo
is to be broad enough to cover everything. Examples include: jobs, visits to
your home, housing, money, food, clothing, advise, etc. The purpose of this
policy is to maintain a healthy environment in which the client can make wise,
responsible and personally healthy decisions as they move from our Mission
toward independent living and self-sufficiency.
