We certainly have to listen to them. That is the foundation because individuals have different life stories. They are not all at the same stage in their lives, and they do not all have the same needs and goals. So we have to listen to them, consider them as experts on their own lives, but not necessarily try to place them somewhere or dictate a recovery path for them. We have to listen to the person.
There is an interesting document that we use a lot in street work, roughly translated as Street Work: From the Spoken Word to the Written. This document says that if we make arrangements for the margins, the margins will make other arrangements. There are in fact always margins. From what I have seen, people cannot be forced to live entirely in a community. The vision put forward is instead to create bridges between the margins and the rest of the community so there are channels.