Program Will Give Homeless Voice-mail

AP via WTOP News ^ | June 4, 2006 | Unk.

[FoxInSocks]

WASHINGTON - A new program coming to the District will provide a free voice-mail service to low-income individuals and the homeless.

Community Voice Mail will make 350 voice-mail boxes available at no cost. Those who want to enroll will be asked to work with a social services case manager.

The manager will make the voice-mail service available as part of a client's overall plan to find a job, or to move out of a shelter or transitional housing.

Each person enrolled in the program will receive a private D.C. phone number connected to a voice-mail box. The number can be used only to check messages.

The executive director of Community Voice Mail says the service began more than a decade ago and serves 46,000 people each year in 37 cities.

[SteveMcKing]

It is a human right afterall....

[Gay State Conservative]

"Hey man....I got your stuff here.Where's my money,man?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I'm not homeless right now, but leave a message and I'll call you back.

[kenavi]

Sounds like a program that really helps, whether administered by gov't (as this appears to be) or by private charity.

[Froufrou]

What if they don't want to find a job and housing? That's the problem: society trying to tell them what to want.

[tophat9000]

Program Will Give Homeless Voice-mail

Hello, this is Bob, I'm not home right now.....

[mgc1122]

The manager will make the voice-mail service available as part of a client's overall plan to find a job

LOL! As if. More likely, it's going to be used to continue to enable their own destructive habits which got them homeless in the first place. Another example of wasted money and effort because some liberal heart string got tugged.

[kinoxi]

If it helps any of them it's probably worth it. It doesn't sound like an expensive program. The few that it would help get employment for would return the cost from taxpayer handouts they no longer receive.

[Froufrou]

I have to agree with you. They aren't homeless because they're down on their luck, as the Libbies would have you believe. They WANT to be that way.

[jigsaw]

Hello, this is Bob, I'm not home right now.....

ROTFLMAO!

[Ole Okie]

Probably gonna be a bunch of voice mail boxes on the sell or trade market very soon.

Really cheap

[theBuckwheat]

And just what percent of the voicemailboxes will end up being used to convey coded messages between gang members, drug dealers/customers, "escort" services, free-lance prostitutes, jihadists and jihadist-wannabes, or maybe even a type of ebay for stolen goods?

[Personal Responsibility]

I am pretty sure this tops the list of most misused tax-payer dollars.

[Red Badger]

Those who want to enroll will be asked to work with a social services case manager.

How dare they require someone to actually work!...........

[finnman69]

"Yo Willie! Dis is Dookie. Where you at bitch! I need dat money so I can socre some weed! I be down sitting on the street corner."

[Diavolos]

I have to agree with you. They aren't homeless because they're down on their luck, as the Libbies would have you believe. They WANT to be that way. Oh really? People want to eat out of a dumpster? And sleep in alleys with rats?

[Cobra64]

"...provide a free voice-mail service to low-income individuals and the homeless."

Ummmm. if they are homeless, how does v-mail work? Is WiFi on their new laptops next?

I'm confoosed.

[subterfuge]

If it helps any of them it's probably worth it. It doesn't sound like an expensive program.

Psh. The govt can't do anything for less than $50 million.

[Xenalyte]

No, what FF is saying is that the sane homeless are usually homeless because they chose (for example) to pay for drugs instead of the rent.

They have made choices that led directly to their becoming homeless.