Minneapolis (CNN)
On a breezy morning in July, Fabian Jones rode his new bike to the homeless shelter where he lived earlier this year.
“Here’s one of our success stories,” said Michael Goze, head of the nonprofit that runs the emergency shelter, known as Homeward Bound, located in the heart of Minneapolis’ large Native American community.
Jones, 52, was spending the day moving his things from a storage unit into a new apartment he found earlier in the summer, with some help provided by case workers at Homeward Bound.
Things turned around for him at Homeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being.”
As a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals like smudging, a ceremony meant to drive away negative energy.
“It’s hard being homeless every day. You can’t take a day off, or rest for a bit.”
Why can’t we create a “Homeward Bound” in every city and town in America?
If not today, when?
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