Case Study Southern Nevada Mcit - 928 Words

I thought I had a very good experience working with the Help of Southern Nevada MCIT. The team I worked with consisted of a nurse named Marsha, who has over 45 years of experience working in hospitals, but has only been working with the homeless for about a year. The other team members consisted of a young male who was a resident of the Help youth homeless shelter and a female who has been working with the homeless for over 3 years. The MCIT worked with different agencies such as the Salvation Army and law enforcement. The MCIT started on the South end of the strip to contact homeless and offer services to them. Most of the homeless people that we encountered did not want any help and it was obvious that they had some kind of mental problem. There were two homeless individuals that team made contact with that wanted help. One of the clients was a 33 year old male who arrived in Las Vegas the day before from San Francisco. He told us that he was traveling from Washington State all the way down south to California by backpack and ended up having his ID stolen. He had no source of income besides what people gave him on the streets. He wanted to get a bus pass to Wichita, Kansas, so he can get his birth certificate and social security card and return to Vegas to find a job and start work. The team I worked with took him to the Salvation Army to get him a bus pass and also Help provided him with three days’ worth of food for the bus ride. The homeless man told Marsha (nurse) that