The Functions Of Staff In Mental Health Housing

* Dictate what you put in your food.
* Dictate when you can or can't lie on "communal couches".
* Spray residents with water who sleep at "wrong times".
* Dictate what clothes a person wears.
* Spashes residents with water who sleep at wrong times.
* Residents are encouraged to rat out fellow residents to staff if they have ANY 

concerns about fellow residents. 

* Dictate when you can be awake and asleep.
* Dictate when you can be in your room.
* Dictate what people can spend money on.
* Dictate where residents can sleep
* Dictate when people can watch TV.
* Confiscate disability and welfare cheques.
* Withhold welfare and disability cheques.
* Rat residents out to management (often involving immediate eviction, no notice)

(residents who are evicted from their group home can't set foot in the group unless

the staff person is present):
   . Doing drugs
   . Drinking alcohol within a block of a group home
   . Not handing over "excess earnings over to government" (on disability you can

only make $500 on the side)
   . Not taking one's medication
   . "Excess" sleep, TV or time in the house
 
* If a resident is evicted they can't enter the group home unless the staff person

is present. This is true even to get their stuff.
* A lot of the rules imposed on residents by staff are at the discretion of the 

staff.