What is the average length of stay at our sheltering facilities? Is it long enough to realistically enact the necessary life changes?
The maximum length of stay is 21 days at our emergency shelter, YWCA Sheriff King Home, due to Alberta provincial funding regulations. Twenty-one days at the shelter facility is not long enough. Ideally, we would like to be in a position where our counsellors decide the appropriate time to move clients out; however, there just are not enough shelter beds and we are bound by the government’s restrictions.
