— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
All this talk of poverty and homelesses and social work has me reminded of this mini-doc I caught on Frontline('s website) a couple months back. It's a bummer watch, for sure—listening to a 11-year-old girl talk of shelters, eviction notices, eating spam, and how she spends her weekends people watching on Tenderloin corners (all while being surprisingly cheery about things). But there's some encouraging nuggets of hope in there at the end—and helps remind us all that social work in the Tenderloin is as necessary as ever.
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Whenever I go to Glide for my Healthy SF they always ask “Are you safe?”. After walking past the huge food lines, open drug use, etc. it’s pretty sobering to think about people who answer no, especially kids. I can’t imagine the stress the mom gone through with two daughters in a shelter in the TL, or even what this girl has seen. They did a pretty good job humanizing the issue.