Social Currency

The homeless services system seems to operate in many ways through its own special type of economy. This economy doesn’t function around the use of financial currency but instead around a social currency. An agency’s, group’s, or individual worker’s success within this type of economic atmosphere is determined by their abilities to establish and manage relational bonds. These bonds can be opened with those experiencing homelessness or other entities that are invested in the welfare of those experiencing homelessness.

There are several economic tools that are utilized by the R.O.C. to make sure that we get the biggest returns on our social investments. We aim to broker the best deals on our clients’ behalf with other resources.

The trust funds are fragile. We build these trusts up by making consistent deposits through our check-in accounts. We also establish accountability accounts by holding ourselves accountable to what we say we are going to do and where we say we are going to be. Each time we assist a community partner with a compounded interest they have with someone experiencing homelessness. This increases the balance of our savings accounts and helps to raise credibility scores. Sweat equity gains us larger credit and proves we would go to great lengths to achieve our goals.

Our social currency network economy is built around raising your net worth in the community through the use of these tools and those similar to them. The system works best when the interests of those experiencing homelessness are the foundation, and everyone working on behalf of those interests is completely sold out to seeing that foundation raised higher!

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