John Cevette responds:
Point well taken. 56 neighborhoods in Minneapolis treat homes for the affluent and those needing supportive services as mutually exclusive. These neighborhoods have zero or one facility. We have 57 in three neighborhoods. Question: When does "providing" supportive services becomes "segregating" supportive services? As a social and mental health policy we embrace diversity. Implicit with diversity is integrating special needs populations fully into main stream society. It means greater success in recovery. There's nothing "evil" with the 30% who live in Stevens Square, it's a policy that aggregates and segregates which better earns that label. John Cevette Whittier J.C. Harmon wrote: Since when are affluence and mental illness or chemical dependency mutually exclusive? There are more untreated mentally-ill and addicted folks wandering the streets of this city than will ever make up the self-proclaimed recovering folks who make up this supposedly evil 30% of the neighborhood. And further, if supportive programs' successes are to be measured in any way, then they have to be accessibile to those who need them, which in turn means locating the services where the people are - whether it's in Stevens or anywhere else. JHarmon Cleveland http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
