I thought you said we were to wait at the shelter.
She had been at the shelter for three weeks, brought by the police.
"But when we called the workers at the shelter, no one knew anything about this program."
There isn't enough space at the shelter to house them.
For those who make it past the first two weeks at the shelter, the average stay is 18 months.
Before the night was much older they would be back at the shelter.
I find this a lot with the kids at the shelter.
They stopped at a small shelter just a few feet away.
"These people don't look at a shelter as a dead end, but a place they can return to."
"You get us into the food line at the shelter."