The Urgent Need!
One of the distinct purposes of the Mission’s Recovery Lodge is to offer a Medical Respite Program, providing structured health care and wrap-around support services to homeless guests with medical issues that can’t be effectively addressed in the normal emergency shelter environment. Recovery Lodge case managers will coordinate care through partnerships with health care providers and community agencies, helping guests regain their health and successfully transition out of the Recovery Lodge into other appropriate housing.
This kind of respite care assists guests in navigating complex health systems, maintaining ongoing relationships with medical providers, and coordinating transportation to and from appointments and support service. It provides the personalized support needed to stay on track with their individual care plans and lower the chances they will return to the hospital
Henry
My name is Elean and my son, Henry, was born with severe heart defects.
Henry is the most wonderful kid in the whole wide world he’s so loving and inquisitive and a normal kid times ten. He is the most wonderful being you will ever meet.
When I was five months pregnant I found out that he had no walls in his heart. I was scared. I had just started building my life again after getting in trouble, and I never in a million years thought I would know what was going to happen and the doctors didn’t either because it was kind of a weird case.
Initially I didn’t know what we were going to do when we got out or where we were going to go because I knew that no place here in Boise would take on the risk of having a medically fragile child. It was hard to find somewhere to go until City Light opened their door to us.
The Mission created a stability for Henry and I. They helped us with a place to live, they’ve helped us with food, they’ve helped us with clothes, they’ve helped us with Henry’s medicines. They never failed to be there. To have a place where his nurse could come in and have a space for them to be able to work with him was so special.
I built a support network with the women of City Light and, going from not having one to having one, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to my life. They are so much more than just a business, they are family and, even though we’re no longer at the Mission, they still are family. They still call me. They still check up and see if we need anything. They’re just the most amazing people that I’ve ever met. It’s a good place.
I would like to say thank you to the donors and all the staff at the Rescue Mission. They have made my and Henry’s life possible.”