Haven For Hope has more than 180 partner agencies in Bexar County that help provide services to it's clients, a big focus of that is mental health.
– Haven for Hope staff encounter people at their worst, said Vice President of Transformational Services David Hewitt.
“We have suicide prevention trainings, we have mental health days that clients and our staff can take it any time,” Hewitt explained. “All of our staff go through de-escalation training and crisis intervention training. We know that a lot of our clients face trauma.
“I think you’re seeing the stress, the multigenerational stress from the parents not being able to afford rent from children, being out of school for years, from the instability for families, sleeping on different couches, bouncing from hotels to hotels.”