The Topeka Rescue Mission is a homeless shelter which has served Topeka, Kansas for more than 60 years.
TRM is dedicated to providing food, shelter, clothing, training and hope to homeless and impoverished men, women and children.
In 2015, TRM sheltered 2,036 different people and provided more than 547,740 meals.
I tried to stay here and when I said I didn't have an emergency contact number at intake, they said I can't stay. It was in the teens outside with snow on the ground, so I gave them a working number and called it an emergency contact number -- but they were suspicious of this and said they're going to call this number and if it's not a good number, then I can't stay. It was a good number and I stayed but I was disrespected and yelled at unfairly by staff the next day (not for doing anything wrong) -- and I left on my own and I'll never return. This isn't the first time I've stayed here and every time I've stayed, I've seen this type of thing -- unfair and unreasonable rules and staff who will disrespect unfairly when they want to. Management is out-of-touch with the homeless, don't care if someone goes outside and dies and this is obvious -- and this is a Christian-based shelter. I believe there are too many people in social service management who have become out-of-touch, indifferent and even annoyed with the homeless who should move on and find other work but they do not -- and I think this is the case with management here. The public thinks they're wonderful but they haven't stayed here as a resident. If they did, they would think otherwise.