Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

EQ: what is the most important factor when transitioning a homeless client from dependence on a homeless shelter to independence?

Answer 1: Assign each participant with at one or more advocates.

Answer 2: Communication and support among volunteers and advocates.

Answer 3: To bring awareness to the community about the program.
My best answer is my first answer. All three of my answers are very crucial in a homeless client’s path to independence, but my first answer is the most unique one. It is what makes a program like CHAP successful and set apart from other program.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

Attending the Monday night CHAP meetings is what really helped me come to my first answer. At the meetings Advocates discussed their progress with their advocates, with that I was able to see the work they were doing for their advocates and what it provided them.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

The only things that concerned me with my answer one was that it uses CHAP's vocabulary , at first i saw it as an inconvenience to have to explain the way my answer is worded, but, I realize now that is not too big of a deal.
 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

My two most significant sources would be my time at my mentorship and my interviews. Both of these experiences allowed me to get information from the people who are dealing with my topic every day.