Wheeler Men's Mission

It's definitely a place to stay in a pinch, but if someone steals anything of yours at any time in any place, don't expect any help in getting it back. The cameras might as well not even be there. Carry everything of any value (electronics, wallets, medications, etc.) with you and DO NOT let it leave your sight. Do not trust a locker or a tote as secure. If it's not nailed down, it'll be gone in a minute. Also, stay inside the black line.

I've read a lot of bad reviews however it seems to me that the people who rated this place negatively did not follow simple rules. This place can and will help you if you're willing to help yourself. It's sad to see that people expect life to be spoon fed to them...that's probably why you became homeless. I'm not perfect but I understood that I needed discipline, structure, rules, and guidance. All of that was provided here and I got what I came for because I kept an open mind and stayed willing. I did not go against the tide every chance I got and then wondered why I was disciplined for it. Everyone here are experiencing a crisis in their life however it's how YOU deal with it that determines your worth and perseverance. I took the oppurtunity that was so freely given to me and did something with it. You'll find people come here just to get a roof over their head or a meal to eat with no intentions of straightening out their lives. I pity them. They're families turned their backs on them and they've given up. They simply use and abuse the system now and expect hand outs. It's sick. I took my oppurtunity and made my life better. I now have a full time job, a car, an apartment, and a loving family. If you're going through a low point in your life then you need to keep an open mind and be willing to follow SIMPLE rules and structures and they WILL help you granted you're willing to help yourself. The only things that concerned me about this place was that they required you to attend a mass in the evening and I'm not very religious but I am spiritual. I feel like they should make that optional however it's their shelter so they can do as they please. Another thing being the amount of thievery that occurs and the staff being completely unwilling to help. The staff that basically babysit and enforce rules are not kind what so ever. Why they chose to help people struggling when they themselves are not fit to help is beyond me. There are however staff that do care but most of them treat you like you're beneath them which I suppose you are in a way. Another thing is the food. It was garbage. Prison and jail food was better then that slop. They could greatly improve on that. My biggest concern was with how much wheeler mission received in donations and all the help they got, how can they not provide simple meals. Don't be fooled, Wheeler has a lot of benefactors yet chooses to do nothing with it's gains. Other then those few things I think this place saved my life and I am so grateful for the people who cared enough to help despite that number being so little. YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN Don't expect life to be fed to you with a silver spoon. Get off your lazy ass and stop expecting others to do what you can't for yourself. It's pitiful and it's disrespectful to all those who try to help This place humbled me but also made me sick. Seeing people choosing to ignore the rules every chance they get and then cry about not being treated fair is total hypocrisy. Then those who hustle every one and beg for hand outs. I feel that there needs to be requirements for the first few days that demand you get a effing job or do volunteer work. And when I say get a job that doesn't mean sitting on a street corner wearing your worst clothes with signs about despair and hopelessness. That's just disgusting! Then they take the money and buy drugs or alcohol. If you can sit on a street corner, steal people's things and sell them, hustle items, sell drugs, Hustle the social security and disability system, and all that foolishness then you are more, and I mean more capable then getting off your ass and getting a real job instead of using the system and the taxpayers money, hard-working citizens money. I'm sorry I did not sugarcoat this but life is not sugar-coated. This may seem like a harsh review however I was like some of what I mentioned at one point. The difference between me and others is I chose to do something about it instead of loathe in self-pity. People are here and want to support you... Just be willing James