As someone who works in and around this sector (not in the US), I'd agree that some of these orgs are totally gearing themselves to be ineffectual while looking the part, but a lot of programs are filled with well intended people trying to bend the shit out of ridgid, and usually outdated, policy, with near bugger all funding because governments do not understand how to heal a society; they still think (or now just know how much money can made) that punitive measures are what deters people from "ending up" homeless and/or "fucked up".

We have examples around the globe of tried and true ways to combat individual societal breakdowns yet I find those that have the ability to make key decisions can't see any other view but their own, one forged in the outdated and punitive based education system - everyone's born with an even chance to make something great of themselves. And sure, aren't we just. But being born is a lottery and that's just the beginning.