Thread by @MtnShepherdess

@JerryDyerFresno 9/ The staffs and management at Naomi House for women, the homeless shelter @PoverelloHouse were incredibly abusive. They constantly threatened vulnerable, mostly mentally ill women, with the sts for "disobeying" some new made-up rule(s). What jerks! -Michaela cc: @SoniaMDLR

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@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR 10/ @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal Do any of you wish to be screamed at and demeaned, like what takes place at Naomi House? I thought not. Neither do people who have brain malfunctions. They've "had it" with the chaos & disrespect. Go elsewhere.-Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal 11/ There is NO place for feedback @PoverelloHouse or @FresnoRescueMsn . If there was, it would probably be discounted as coming from an unimportant population. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 12/ For example, a homeless man @PoverelloHouse who was disabled came up to me, told me that he had a gun, and that he wanted to blow his brains out. I IMMEDIATELY found a Pov staff member & reported the man was suicidal, needed hospital care. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 13/ I saw the Pov staff member several days later. I asked him if he was able to find the suicidal man. The trashy, unprofessional, unethical Naomi House staff disciplined me for being "inappropriate" with a man Pov staff member! Minds in the gutter!! Always!! 🤨-Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 14/ What would those unprofessional, untrained, unpolished,. unethical women who run Naomi House suggest? That I say nothing and let the disabled homeless man die by suicide? With a gun? He probably pegged me as the ONLY person in that area who gave a darn about him 🤨. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 15/ Homeless I'll people have repeatedly said that they DO NOT like @PoverelloHouse or @FresnoRescueMsn : dangerous environments. For these homeless sick peoples' good sense to avoid those areas, they are punished by our community at large. Ungrateful, etc. 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn *typo: sick (pardon auto incorrect).

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 16/ Our homeless sick people, many with malfunctioning brains (which are bona fide medical conditions, look at the pictures on Google images) can only take so much stress. They need stability and peace of mind. The community won't respect their basic needs. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 17/ Because our homeless sick want to escape the dangers of @PoverelloHouse @FresnoRescueMsn and the Lepers' Colony of homelessness & hopelessness there, they are castigated. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 18/ I don't see any of you spending your free time in that dangerous neighborhood. To the contrary, city & county agencies & employees have car windows rolled up and doors locked. Super careful. 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 19/ I am a college-educated paralegal, earned A's in college, and I worked for top San Francisco Bay Area law firms, including on court-appointed conservatorships. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 20/ The MAJORITY of Fresno's homeless are legally entitled to Social Security disability because of the gravity of their disabilities. Most are NOT receiving it for the same reasons. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 21/ Our community does NOT actively pursue homeless people in need, hold their proverbial hands, every step of the way. Them succeeding at these steps has odds as long as winning the lottery. 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 22/ I know lots of homeless people who want off the sts of Fresno. They want to work, go to college, or live in safe bldgs with alone time in their own apts and some social times (cafe, games, etc). We do NOT provide that. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 23/ The *themed* homeless transitional housing that I've been through are total failures. I would burn my credibility with people on the sts if I said otherwise. I've been thru the hellscape! Wowza. What a nightmare! -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 24/ We have bright, talented, kind people on the sts of Fresno, CA who have brain malfunctions. Many have also lived thru horrific abuse. No one EVER polls them about what they need. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn 25/ As soon as I can afford those boxes of hot coffee @Starbucks for groups, with the cups, sugar and creamers, another camp chair, I WILL be out on north Blackstone polling our homeless folks over coffee and snacks. Honestly. I am super serious. 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 26/ A homeless middle-aged Fresno veteran with cancer (wife and daughter killed a few yrs ago in a car crash in Visalia), multiple college degrees, is wait-listed for VA housing. He gets disability. He woke up @FresnoRescueMsn with a man trying to rape him! -Michaela

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@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 27/ Whom has more credibility with Fresno's homeless veterans? You, groups, and agencies who say "try the @FresnoRescueMsn " or the educated homeless vet who was almost raped there?! He tells our vets to NEVER stay @FresnoRescueMsn . -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 28/ This whole idea that violence and crime are part of the deal in getting Fresno homeless services needs to be jettisoned. Sick, vulnerable people should NOT be placed in violent areas because our officials "say so". -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 29/ Being placed in violent areas further traumatizes sick folks. It is an unacceptable practice, lacking in problem solving and best practices. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 30/ Back to Naomi House @PoverelloHouse . We women clients saw a man beat another man into unconsciousness outside the closed, locked @PoverelloHouse gates. It was the weekend. I had no cell phone charge & ran to the Naomi House backyard patio to plug in, call 911. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 31/ I was DISCIPLINED by the Naomi House staff who told me that "help was not coming" and "that it's none of our business." Naomi House staff obstructed the administration of justice, a crime on their parts that can land them in jail or prison! Vile, vile women! -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 32/ The bleeding, beaten man lay unconcious in the st. Police & paramedics never came. It was heartbreaking, disgusting, unethical, immoral, and illegal. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 33/ Next up the dumb-as-rocks Naomi House mgmt & staff accused me of a felony crime: prescription drug theft of an elderly homeless woman's medication who lives on the st. I do not smoke, drink, use drugs, steal or have a criminal history 🤨. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 34/ I am a paralegal who earned A's in college. I've never gotten a speeding ticket in 40+ yrs of driving. But unprofessionalism is a daily event @PoverelloHouse . I even got CA's Safe at Home Program passed into law, after 4 yrs work. Testified before state senate comm.-Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks 35/ Naomi House mgmt and staff NEVER called @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno to interview people (including me), take reports, and most importantly look at the security camera footage from the bowling ball sized camera on the st 🤨! -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno 36/ Previously in the San Francisco Bay Area, I worked for the nation's winningest plaintiffs' Civil Rights' attorneys. They've won billions of dollars. I watched countless violations of law at Naomi House by mgmt & staff that can result in lawsuits.Does ins co know?- Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno 37/ Naomi House mgmt kicked me out on a trumped up charge of felony prescription drug theft. Those women are the scum of this earth, they should be FIRED (there is no discipling that level of unethical behavior & sheer unprofessionalism), and competent staff hired. -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno 38/ Naomi House and @PoverelloHouse get a "F" grade in my opinion as a college-educated paralegal, law ofc exp, member of @namicalifornia . They've been sued in fed ct in Fresno for forcing women to shower with bio man, harassed, threatened! 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno 39/ The reason we have so many homeless sleeping on the sides of our freeways and throughout city is because these are FAILED systems that happily render people homeless again, because they can. The system & staffs are a huge part of the problem! 🤨 -Michaela

@JerryDyerFresno @PoverelloHouse @SoniaMDLR @fresnoland @FresnoNAMI @namicalifornia @ACLU_NorCal @FresnoRescueMsn @Starbucks @FresnoPolice @FPOA_Fresno 40/ Next up: How did our city let a homeless baby die? Homeless people should be triaged immediately, like they are at hospital ER's! That baby, sibling, and Mama should have been housed ASAP. -Michaela
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I haven't seen any media asking our citizens for help for these people in dire health. Given Covid, and the news of people behind on water bills, I called city. I was told that friends & I could contribute to paying off families' H2O bills.-Michaela