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L- same as #1 - -also need satellite facility at Pahoa High and Intermediate School. School library and <br />librarian desperately needed. Library access for students during the school day desperately needed. <br />L- Support is there, but sadly parental responsibility is not. <br />L- We need an office here! Poor people cannot afford to go to Hilo! <br />L- We need to make services available in the area. <br />L- Now that the DHS office in Hilo has done away with assigned case workers, clients in desparete need <br />are truly cast adrift in a sea of lost paperwork and <br />L- no service. We need a DHS annex office for our citizens. We need a real mental health facility. Also, a <br />well organised community support program for seniors, day care for pre - kindergardners. <br />SS FOR HOMELESS <br />H- Could be more attentive to homeless problem. There are so many underage children in volved with <br />rootless adults. They seek shelter wherever there are unlived in properties, hideaways in park or <br />vacant areas mainly with foliage, and take advantage of public toilets, but break them and abuse <br />them. <br />H- Help for homeless & Sr's needed <br />H- too many homeless taking advantage of homes and areas not in use <br />SS RELATED TO REHAB- ALCOHOL- DRUGS <br />R- More drug treatment and substance abuse counselors - sober house - <br />R- outreach for drug addict and alcoholics and homeless is needed <br />R- rehabs have long or impossible waiting lists and the quality is not there either. <br />R- too many street people <br />EBT- FOOD STAMPS <br />E- EBT still doesn't cover 1 full month of groceries, but better than nothing <br />E- Thank God for food - stamps <br />SS RELATED TO SENIORS - ELDERLY <br />S- Good senior center <br />S- Not very much disabled access to many spots in town for seniors, etc. <br />S- need improvement in areas - nice to have Senior Services Center County services <br />S- Senior services have been skimpy at best. Accommodations for handicapped and elderly are <br />inadequate. <br />Social services Page 2 <br />