When I had my social work experience, it was in a medical setting. We actually weren't permitted to discharge people without having a place for them to go. I don't know how that's changed since the increase of our homeless population. Since COVID and with the burden on our health care system, there just are not enough beds. There are not enough doctors. There are not enough nurses. There's not enough.
It's good to hear that you guys are positioned to be able to catch some of those people. If you're not, at the end of the day, they're just coming back. Especially in the wintertime when it does get cold, you're then trying to navigate the emergency room as an emergency room as opposed to a drop-in shelter. It's important that those gaps are being met. People aren't falling through the cracks, I guess. That's great to hear that you're doing that.
At what point in a person's housing instability is intervention most likely to be successful?