Fresno EOC Sanctuary Transitional Shelter

Amal

1. No doors on the rooms 2. Some staff is rude as hell 3. Keep lights on 24/7 even when going to sleep 3. Repeatedly try to kick people out during the day 4. Case Manager on vacation when I moved in here 5. No storing food or drink and if so is violation 6. Hypervigilant staff wanting to write up everyone for everything 7. First week here and not good 8. A couple hours notice before throwing food out 9. First week here and 1 review so says a lot 10. No bar to hang my clothes in the room

Sarah Spurlock

Amazing place, giving young adults every opportunity to get their ducks in a row and get some help financially as well. Lots of rules but nothing outlandish. Can't say enough good things about this program and how it helped me.

HEAVEN CLAN S7EVEN

Upon hearing about the shelter I was pretty optimistic about the things i heard from a county sheriff. Once I got in there and an spoken to an employee at the front desk work. In the moment i was optimistic for the future for good reasons as she was a very kind, respectful, and genuinely empathetic of my situation.. This optimism quickly went away after having the first meeting with my caseworker whose job was supposedly to help me out with finding and securing permanent housing. Not only does she label my case as a self resolved best case meaning that when it comes to trying to find permanent housing in the city it would still be completely on me she will have no real help to offer. That in itself knowing that that was one of the key parts and one of the greatest things about the program Was very does a disappointing news for me at a very hard time but on top of having to receive the disappointing news she also talk to me like I was completely incompetent and in grade school the entire time !!! making me feel very belittled and overall worse about myself for putting myself in the situation. Understandable to believe that someone who is my age at the age of 23 must’ve done a bunch of bad stuff To get him in the position financially that im in but from what my grandmother had told me originally just because someone has bad character (although i dont) doesn’t justify bad action. In the remainder of the week I was there. The span of my stay being only about a week and a half maybe two weeks I’ve been assaulted by my roommate and when I say sold it I mean I look up to a about 6’2 close to 300 pound 19-year-old hitting me in my face . after already voicing my concerns about my roommate to one of the workers that were there during the night shift. to add to it upon my departure from the shelter after my bed Being closeds by my case worker For coming in past curfew although I had every form of excuse They had originally said would be Accepted On top of a job I was working full-time The promises of storage that was given to me which I have in text stated that I would have 30 days to ultimately grab all of my things or it would be disposed of or donated. Three days into my supposed storage I went back to the shelter to collect my things with a mentor of sorts only to be told that somehow my things had been stolen. Even considering the situation I was in and the loss of what I’d like to say most of my life savings there were still no empathy from any of the workers or any real investigation done to figure out what happened to any of my things as far as I see it when it comes to anybody who fits my description you’re probably better off getting a storage on your own and just sleeping on the streets because not only will you be undermined and taunted for your current position you will also put yourself arabesque of being victimized by the people that claim they want to help you!!