Authentic Wyoming
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Authentic Wyoming
A Beacon of Hope for Struggling Families in Rock Springs
Executive Director Shari West and her team work with community partners to provide support for families of all shapes, ages, and circumstances with the goal of helping them achieve independence and self-sufficiency.
Authentic Wyoming
Episode #36 ~ Shari West, Executive Director, Sweetwater Family Resource Center
Original Air Date: November 12, 2024
This transcript was generated automatically using speech-to-text technology. The accuracy may vary in spots.
Tressa
hello.
Myra
Hello. For those in listener land, Tressaa cannot move an inch at this moment because something is wrong with her. Her mic is hot today. It's... Yeah.
Tressa
It's extremely hot. it's so frustrating when we have these technical difficulties. You do the exact same thing that I do every time. And I about, well, I did damage my Rosair drums apparently.
Myra
Yeah.
Myra
It was a little rough. I could not help but cry from pain and laughter. we have our headphones on. for those that don't watch us on YouTube, we wear headphones and stuff. So when Tressaa joined and it was really hot, my eyes shot out of my head. My ears went bleh. And then Keith freaked out.
Tressa
you
Myra
It was a great laugh by all. Yeah. It was one for the books.
Tressa
or pulled her headphones off like ahhhh
This is when we should actually record and do the outtakes because yeah, well, we'd have a lot of bleeping to do but...
Myra
yeah. yeah, our pregame is way funnier.
Tressa
Eheh
You
Myra
There's a lot of effort to make this happen, you know, and I laugh because like I started joining the sessions almost 30 minutes early and I was still interested in this and, it's because I, with me being remote, I have to get my dogs in their kennels and then I put them in the garage. Like there's a whole process to make this happen. And then everything's silent and then all my devices are off and the lighting is lit. Like there's a whole stage that's set before.
I start recording. So I, it's just, it's funny. I need a good laugh. So it's been fun. Today was fun.
Tressa
It was great. Yeah. I'm going to be joining a lot earlier now too. I thought we had it dialed in and then my docking station, think. I don't know.
Myra
Yeah, the docking stations are not great. And I actually plug into the laptop directly and I do that every time. Yeah. So I, I'm curious, but Tressaa's laptop is possessed every once. And it's, yeah. And today.
Tressa
Do you? Yeah.
Tressa (
boy is it not. I even got a new one. The possession just transferred over.
Myra
My computer started acting like Tressaa's computer when I was on a call with our wonderful coworker, Katherine. And she's like, wow, it's now joined your computer. I said, yes. And I have a podcast today. it, you know, be gone possessed spirit of the laptop. Like I've got a podcast. yeah. It was tough. was typing. was switching screens and it would go in and out of work board and then just reload a new work board page.
Tressa
Be gone.
Was it typing without you typing? Remember that day? Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Myra (
and it would jump around and then it brought up my teams and I'm just watching it and I'm like, well, let's hope this stops because I have something important.
Tressa
I'm glad it, I mean I hate that that happened to you, but I'm glad it's not just me. I had to call you in here that one day like look at this. I'm not even close to my keyboard. It's going crazy. Yeah, it's okay. Maybe that's it. Same levels as yesterday. Now they're completely turned down. That's interesting. Anyway.
Myra
yeah, it's not just you. Yeah.
Yeah, it's okay. That's why your mic's hot.
Myra
Yeah.
Yeah. yeah. It's not bad. My ears aren't bleeding right now. So I can tell you it's all good. Before I thought I was going to have to file workers comp. I didn't know what was going to happen. Yeah.
Tressa
We've got it. We'll make it work. We're adaptable. Yeah.
Tressa
I was like, great, we got an incident report to fill out.
Myra
My boss's voice was so loud, you know, that would be like workers comp complaint of the century. Like my boss's voice made me lose my hearing. I think there would be a lot of people who wish they could submit that.
Tressa
You
Tressa
I was like, yeah, I think that's probably something people are like, can I make that a workman's cop claim? Who knew?
Myra
Yeah, like, who knew?
Tressa
Start a trend.
Myra
Yeah. Anyways, yeah.
Tressa
Yeah, exactly.
Myra
Well, today I'm excited for our guest. Today we have Sherry West. She is the executive director of Sweetwater Family Resource Center. Hello, Sherry.
Tressa
Hey Sherry.
Shari West
Hello, how are you guys today? Obviously some technical issues, but other than that, we're all good.
Myra
We're good. Yeah.
Tressa
We're great, yeah. Yeah, we're doing great. Thank you so much for joining us today. Appreciate it. Do you want to just start out telling us a little bit about the history and the mission of the Family Resource Center?
Shari West
Sure.
Shari West
Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. So we started in 2001. I wasn't here then, doing the mission was to provide safe, well-structured programs and services for families and individuals in our community to promote their well-being. And we started with a supervised visitation and exchange grant.
where non-custodial parents could have a place to come visit their children that was safe and structured. And even for exchanges for not, know, custodial parents, cases of divorce, things like that, especially if there was a no contact order. Or even if the parents just, of course, they got divorced for a reason, couldn't get along. Every time they're, you know, exchange kids back and forth, there's a lot of conflict. So.
Tressa
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
We work with DFS on a lot of our cases. They don't have to be court ordered. The service is completely free to the parents and we do have two offices, one in Rock Springs and one in Green River. We do a lot of after school and weekend visits because that's when all the kids and parents are available.
And since starting that, we've had a lot of grants doing a lot of different things. And in the last 10 years, we've made that mostly focused on housing. Low income people in Sweetwater County specifically, some of our grants we can branch out and do the whole state. But.
who have an eviction notice and just need some help paying their rent so they don't get evicted, who have found themselves homeless and don't have that big chunk of money to do the deposit and the first month's rent to move into housing. We follow a housing first model that says if we get you into housing first, then we can work on all of the other things, whether that be get a job or...
work on your utilities, work on some substance abuse problems. But having a roof over your head and having a safe home base seems to work best. There's a lot of evidence that shows that. And it saves the community a lot of money. When people are homeless, they tend to use more emergency room services.
And that's a huge drain on a community and nobody thinks about that. They use the police force more often. There's more 911 calls from them because they don't know who else to call. And it's interesting that the minute they get into housing, all of that tends to, a large percentage of that tends to dissipate. If you're not feeling well, you don't, or you're super cold, you don't just show up at the emergency room.
Shari West
So right now that's our main focus. Visits and Exchanges is still a viable, wonderful program. We've got about 20 families that we're working with right now. We're always happy to take more. We have great staff in both the offices. And then our other office for the rental assistance is located in Rock Springs.
We also have one specific grant that is for those that are homeless or at risk of being homeless with a serious mental illness. We have a couple of SOAR certified staff members that can help you to apply for and receive your disability benefits. So then you're able to get some income and get into housing, you know, and we help facilitate all of that.
For our clients, they do need to find their own housing. It is their choice, you know, they get to find a landlord.
Shari West
I don't you know we can do some conflict resolution with them as well. It's not a long-term program. It's more just emergency services to get you over the immediate emergency and then hopefully provide resources so that you can tackle all those other barriers that kept you from being housed that kept you from getting into housing and get you on
sustainable path so that then you're self sustainable and can do all this on your own. So in a nutshell, there it is.
Tressa
Yeah, that's...
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Is there a way that you kind of identify the specific needs of the community and then adapt to those? Because it sounds like as you started out, you were talking about like the facilitation of the non-custodial parent being able to visit their child in a safe environment and now it's moved into a different need of housing, right? And so how does that evolve and what do you see?
some other needs that you might be seeing in the future.
Shari West
So it evolves basically community needs assessments. Somebody does one, a lot of times the county does one, the state will do one. I know right now both of them are conducting one, mid community needs assessment. They try to do one every two to three years. That kind of shows.
where the poverty levels are at and what the highest needs are. The last report that I have that just came out a couple of months ago, month and a half ago, says that the top three services in Sweetwater County are rent payments, doctor payments, and in-home care. And so we structure things around that.
And also the community lacks living wage employment options so that they can afford their housing. You know, we all know the cost of everything is going up. We all live here. We're all paying more for gas, utilities, groceries, you name it. Housing, you know, rent has gone up. We've seen rent go up exponentially over the last few years. But income has not.
not to the same degree that everything else has gone up. So we know there's a huge need. Transportation is always another hot topic. But if somebody in the community is already addressing those needs, such as food, there is a food insecurity need. But we do have a soup kitchen in Rock Springs. We have the food bank in Rock Springs in Green River. We have the food truck at the Rockies coming.
So we specifically as an organization feel like that's covered. We don't need to cover that. But nobody else is covering housing. And there is a lack of income-based housing in Sweetwater County.
Shari West
And Evanston too, you know, you in a county and in fact all over I'm part of the I'm on the COC board, which is statewide, which is the container care. And. That's not unique to any of our counties. It is the issue statewide. And and even nationwide, but we mostly focus on you know Wyoming and then we bring it down to just the county we live in, cause that's where I mean.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Tressa
Mm-hmm.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
focuses for all of us, depending, no matter where we live. The main things that always come up are income-based housing and transportation. Those are the two biggies that come up across the state and mental health services. That's the other biggie. I know the governor's doing a lot to try to deal with the mental health crisis. I know that Wyoming nationwide is kind of a...
Tressa
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
So the governor's addressing that.
a lot of homelessness there is a mental health issue not all the time but there is a large percentage of people who suffer from some kind of mental illness also end up homeless. So we're always very interested in them because of our one grant it's a PATH grant that deals specifically if you have a serious mental illness you know that you have to have that component. So
We pay a lot of attention to what is going on with the mental health community, what services are available, where people can go for help.
Anyway, your question was back to how do we determine the need? And that's kind of, and then just people coming in the door, know, utilities, all of a sudden in the last three months, I would say generally speaking, 80, 85 % of all of the assistance we provide, it's usually rent, it's usually housing. And then two, three months ago,
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
That went down to like 15 % and everybody needed help with their utilities. Everybody had shut off notices. Everybody. And I know there's been some increases. We pay attention to that. always, you know, because we know that's going to affect us. It's going to affect the people in our community. So utilities are also a really big one. you have a shut off notice and you can't pay, you're
Tressa
Wow.
Tressa
Right.
Shari West (
You know, we do what we can. A lot of times we can't pay the whole bill, but we could pay some of it and help.
types of things. We know that winter's coming. So, the app just started and that is ran through the state of Wyoming. That helps with your primary heating source, whether that be wood, propane, natural gas, and then we also can supplement that here in our office through Energy Share, which is through Salvation Army, and that starts December 1st. So if
the state program, maybe all they pay is your heating source bill. We maybe help pay your electric bill with energy share. It's not as much money. It's a one time shot, but at least it's something to keep you warm. And the lights are over the winter. So there is some flexibility. We roll with the seasons. Generally summer tends to be a little bit slower. People just do better in the summer.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
If you are homeless, it's OK to sleep in your car as opposed to sleeping in your car in January when it's, you know, where you literally could die from the cold. You know, we try to save the small amount of emergency shelter funds that we do get because there is not an emergency shelter anywhere in this whole quadrant of the state. You you have to go to either Casper, Cheyenne, Gillette.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Right. Yeah.
Shari West
Riverton kind of runs one off and on, but there's nothing here. So we end up putting people in a motel. And that's expensive. It's really expensive.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Yeah, so I've heard you mention a couple things where you're talking about like Wyoming doesn't have affordable housing and there's not a shelter and I know that you can only do so much, but are there steps that the Resource Center is taking to try to advocate or to help?
get those types of things for our people in the community where it would relieve some of the pressure of you having to supply all the funding for that? Or is there a way, are there groups of people advocating for that? Because it seems like there's obviously a massive need. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. there any application or ways, or is there any movement to try to get those things?
Shari West
Yes, on movement. mean, it's a big project. I no matter how you look at it, it's huge. And it costs a lot of money. You know, we've met with county officials, city officials. Right now, everybody's pleading poverty, saying they can't really handle that. It's more of a state or federal issue. But the good news is, you know, there are some state...
organizations including the COC board, the Wyoming Homeless Coalition, Coalition to End Homelessness. We are all working together. The federal government just came out with a new bill, a new grant to help communities build affordable housing and it has to be affordable housing and it's a 10 or 15 year locked in. has to be used for that.
The applications are due mid-October, so there are still applications coming in for that. I'm hoping that that helps, you know. But that's also, it's huge. It's a lot of money, but then you, you know, there's a lot that goes into building housing, I mean, from zoning to your contractors to, you where do put it? It's great. Sometimes people say, why don't you just take an abandoned building and turn it into a homeless shelter?
Myra
Yeah, exactly.
Shari West
but then who funds that homeless shelter? And nobody really wants to step up to the plate. But there are conversations. We do talk to local churches. I think if they all came together, that could be an option. And we are talking with them. There are conversations happening. But it never happens fast enough. it was a lot of money. And so we just do what we can do.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah. Yeah, everything takes time.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
Yes, there are advocacy groups. Yes, we are doing what we can do. Yeah, we'd love more help. Yeah, we'd love more housing, you know. And our job is to kind of remove barriers for our clients. Who removes the barriers for the communities as a whole to bring in some of these things? And sometimes the communities don't want them either. So it's kind of a...
Myra
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Tressa (
Hahaha.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
tricky subject. It's not as easy as people think of just, ooh, take this building and turn it into a homeless shelter. There's a lot more involved than that. And I wish there wasn't. I wish it was that easy.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah, your point about transportation being a major issue. mean, in Wyoming, there's just not a lot of public transportation options, right? So yeah, if you don't have a vehicle here, even in a lot of rural areas, there's not even an option for an Uber, even if you had the money, or a taxi, right? So what are some of the ideas that you guys have thrown around to kind of address that?
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
So here we have StarBus. If you are, I believe, at 65 or older, they will let you ride the bus for free. We usually go and buy a bunch of bus passes and punch passes from them every year. It kind of spreads the wealth and helps that we can give those passes to our clients to get to work, to get to see us, to get to the doctor. That's what they need to do.
Tressa
Okay.
Tressa
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
So we are working here locally, but our main focus right now is not on transportation. We do work with a taxi company that we use not really often, but it's there in case we have to use him. He's great to work with. But once again, it's pretty expensive to take a cab ride. here locally, it is pretty expensive.
Tressa
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Shari West
We just found out about some low-income housing in Kemmer. We're super excited about that. But how do we get people from here to Kemmer? And two, not everyone wants to go to Kemmer, you know? When we talk about people who are unstably housed and needing transportation, all of that, a lot of them are elderly or disabled living on Social Security.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
That's not very much money. The average social security that we see right now is $943 a month. So if your rent, which is very typical, is $700 a month, that doesn't give you a whole lot of wiggle room to do anything. Hopefully, you're taking advantage of food stamps, of SNAP.
Tressa
Wow. Wow.
Myra
Yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West (
But that just still doesn't leave you a whole lot of money. And that is our most vulnerable population. I mean, we do have in this latest report 26 % of children are living in poverty in Sweetwater County. So when we talk about preventive measures to some degree, which we were talking about.
Tressa (
Yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Wow.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
You know, we do work with the local school districts. We do work with the parents as teachers and the CDC and Head Start and DFS. I think it's a great group of people and I think we do everything we can do to try to end the generational poverty to try to.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
in 10 years when these kids are adults, we're not seeing them. We don't want to see them. Not that we don't want to see them, but we don't want see them. And I always tell people, yes, come back in and check in, but come tell me good stuff. Come tell me that you got the job, that these wonderful things happened in your life to improve your situation.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Myra
Yeah, exactly.
Shari West
Yeah, so we personally are not doing a lot on transportation other than just supporting Starbuzz the best we can.
Tressa
Yeah. Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah, so talking about like coming back and sharing good news, like do you have any like success stories or any stories that you could share where what you did and how you helped a family or an individual really changed their lives?
Shari West
I will share one just because it's one of my favorites, but got a call about a gentleman who was living in his car. He got kicked out of his residence, so all he owned was now in his car because he couldn't pay rent. He does have social security.
but he pays an awful lot of child support that is coming out of And he's elderly. This is a really old child support case. children are adults. But they take like half of his social security to all this back child support. So we get the call. His car has now broken down, so he can't even drive from one place to another. And we were able to get him into low income.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
housing, which is income based in Green River. And my husband, thankfully, felt really bad. We personally went and got his vehicle, towed it to our shop, fixed his vehicle for him so that now he has transportation and housing. There's not a lot we can do about the child support.
But the fact that he is in safe stable housing and he has a vehicle, we got him on, we helped him apply for and get on food stamps. So he's got food. We also had meals on wheels coming in in the interim. You know, he's done some health problems. So those kind of things make us really happy. know, as you know, Social Security, if you're trying to apply for disability benefits, that's a long.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
hard struggle and our case manager that does that specifically. It's very hard. It's really hard. But she got one of her gals, her disability first shot, no denial letter, got her disability and.
Tressa
Yeah, yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Myra
Wow. That's, yeah.
Tressa
Wow.
Shari West
She can pay her own rent. And she is capable of working some. So with now the disability and the part-time work she does, she is financially stable.
Tressa
Wow.
Shari West
These are.
These are the really good ones, you know? And it does happen. mean, we get to see it a couple times a month, you know, two or three times a month, where maybe they lost their job and they were in between jobs and then they got behind on stuff. So we help them get caught up. But now they've got a job and it's great. And they're rocking and rolling. You know, we just got them over that hump, which is...
Tressa
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
The best part is just getting them over that hump and then seeing them be successful. And they do pay it forward, and that's great. So many people are so good about once they end up stable to help pay it forward to other people. And that's what community is all about.
Myra
Yeah, I agree. That's awesome. Is there anything new that the Resource Center is trying to implement or that's coming up or anything that you would like to share that's new with the Resource Center?
Shari West
Not so much new, we're kind of. I'm trying to think if we're doing anything fabulous. We're kind of just keeping on keeping on. You know, for us it's always exciting when the app opens because. That takes a little bit of burden off of us for utility assistance, so we want to let people know it's all online this year, but both senior centers in Rock Springs and Green River are offering help.
Myra
Yeah.
Myra
Mmm.
Shari West (
They will help you fill out your application online, upload your documents, and also the Department of Family Services is helping there as well. So that's always exciting.
Tressa
Hmm.
Shari West (
I wish I had fun new stuff. know, angels coming up. Well, I mean, we do salvation art. So so angel tree every winter. So for us, it's all of a sudden like, this is the big bell rings coming up. That's all salvation army money goes into our salvation army pot. It is spent locally. It stays locally. Will be at Smith's and Albertson's and in both Smith's and Green River and Rock Springs, Albertson's Walmart.
Tressa
Yeah, yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
ringing the bells, volunteers ring the bells for us. Last year was a really slow year. We're hoping to knock it out of the park this year. So if anybody wants to come bell ring your organization, your family, anything, get a hold of us. you know, love it. We usually do a two hour slot. So you're not there all day long freezing. You know, yeah, that's also an issue because it gets a little chilly. You know, we have hand warmers that we can give you.
Tressa
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
Yeah, we try to make that so, you know, we're just gearing up for bell ringing, hopefully to have a really successful bell ringing program this year. And Angel Tree is generally always a huge success. You know, people in this community are very generous, especially if they know there's a need. know, Angel Tree, the families that are in need.
come in, fill out a tag with what they need, and then the families adopt them, bring the gifts back here. And that's so much fun for us when we talk about a positive, fun thing. A few days before Christmas, when we're calling all the families to come pick up the gifts, we try to get a big group photo of all of the gifts. And it's so much fun. I mean, it really is. And then to see these families come and pick up their presents to take them home, that's one of the huge.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
positives and positives. Makes it all worthwhile.
Tressa
Yeah, that's great. So that was one of my questions about how can the community get involved to support your work. a couple of things you mentioned was like supporting the Angel Tree, maybe volunteering to ring the bell for Salvation Army. Is there any other ways that the community can help support what you're doing?
Myra
Yeah.
Shari West
Generally, we do have a, we call it a pantry here. It's not specifically food, it's more clothing, household items. We are thinking about moving to a new location, which will probably be much smaller, just in the interest of trying to save some cost. So we don't really want any clothing donations at this time, but anything like homeless kids. So ham warmers, gloves.
Myra
you
Tressa
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
Socks, hygiene supplies are great. Household, really practical household things like a set of dishes, a set of towels, sheets. We move a lot of people who are living in their car into housing. They don't have a couch, they don't have a bed, won't have anything. Some of them don't even have cooking utensils. So it's great that they're in housing, but.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Shari West
They can't even cook a pot of ramen or anything else. So just really practical household items.
Tressa
Yeah. Yeah.
Myra (
Yeah.
Shari West
stand, we can still take those donations and are happy to do that.
And then monetary donations are always appreciated. I mean, they do stay here. We have a donation account. It doesn't go anywhere else. It doesn't go. It goes for the people that especially, maybe they fall through the cracks. Maybe they're not eligible for one of our grants for one reason or another. They don't have ID. They can't, you know.
Tressa
Sure.
Shari West
Something is preventing them because all of our we do have several different grants. have grants from the county. We have grants from the state and they all have a little bit different criteria, but maybe they just don't quite meet where and they need help. So this is a thing or maybe they need help that our grants don't help with. know, our grants primarily help with with.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
and utilities and emergency shelter. So if you need your water heater repaired, maybe it's a $50 charge, you've already got the plumber lined up, but you don't have 50 bucks to do that, donations work great for that. We also partner with United Way. Their money can help kind of fill in a lot of those gaps as well where you don't qualify for some of these other grants.
Myra (
Yeah.
Myra
Mm.
Shari West
always there's never enough money when you're an up-and-up there's never enough so you know those types of things and then just get the word out if you see somebody that needs help you know we're limited to some degree by the grant restrictions on what we can do but we will think outside the box as best we can we will try to help you and if we cannot maybe we know who can
Tressa
Yeah.
Tressa
Yeah.
Shari West
Maybe we have some resources we try to stay really up to date with everybody in the community, what they're doing, what resources they're providing, so that if we can't help you, we know who can. 2-1-1, great resource. Shout out to 2-1-1, because they're fabulous. But yeah, that's.
Tressa
Yeah.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Yeah. Yeah.
Tressa
as they are.
Myra
Mm-hmm.
Tressa
Well, we're getting to the end of the time today. We always have one last question that we love to ask our guests, and that is, how do you stay authentic?
Shari West
by recognizing that this is my community and this is my home. And regardless of the wind and the cold, Wyoming is still a really great place to live. the community's awesome and we just want to do everything we can to help the community and the state.
Tressa
Great. Thank you so much, Sheri.
Myra
Yeah. Yeah, thank you.
Shari West
Thank you guys. Have a great day my friend.
Myra
Thank you, until next time.
Tressa
you. Stay authentic.
