Actually, the best practice would be to reach them at home, in the safety of their homes. We have met some of the women who have been here for a couple of years, but they don't even know how to do their basic groceries. The approach we have taken is to reach them in their homes. We make home visits. Our workers go to their homes and talk to them about their issues.
Sometimes the men don't feel very comfortable letting the women go out. We worked with the interpreters who came from Afghanistan, from a war-torn country, and they were very isolated, so we started that up. We went to their home, spoke with the men, talked about the issues, and we made some visits.
Then we had groups, for women only, at the library, where we talked to them.
We started teaching them how to use the elevator, because they mostly didn't use the elevator, and cooking and all. That proved to be very successful.
We did things like taking them to get their groceries, taking them to LINC classes...how to walk there. They were not involved in their LINC classes.
Home visits are very.... What's more important is how you do outreach with the most isolated and marginalized segments. We don't have many problems with those who are coming to us for services, but we are concerned with those who don't come to us.