Focus Ireland is an organisation who deal with human beings who become homeless or/and who is possible at risk to lose their house. It has been founded in 1985 by Irish visionary and social innovator Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy where they responses of homeless women ‘s needs in Dublin. Focus Ireland is a nationwide service, it is operating through the country and they have office in each county. Over 70 services across Ireland expanding to meet demand. In Connacht three services, Leinster 36 services, Ulster two services and Munster 32 services (Focus Ireland, 2016). Their operation to address the causes of homelessness. Their services dictated by the needs of their customers, they offer individuals and families lots of supports in terms of advice, information and help. This paper will cover the vison, mission, aim and values pf Focus Ireland, then I will elaborate about the role of social care worker in this organization.
Focus Ireland’s vision that “Each individual entitled to live in a safe place which called home” (2014). They worked with single individuals, families and young individuals too who become homeless or at the risk to become one. Their mission to provide lots of support, advice, education and helping individuals and families to have a house or to keep their house by advocating on their behalf to the landlords (Focus Ireland, 2016).
Focus Ireland believes that the quality of service delivery is as important as the kind of service they provide. There are eight
Communities and Local Government. 2007. An International Review of Homelessness and Social Housing Policy. London
Homelessness is all our responsibility. Waking every morning in a warm bed in a secure house for some Australians is only a dream. Every day more and more people are becoming or are at risk of becoming homeless as the global economy crumbles away and monetary resources become harder to find. What is homelessness: the Australian Government Department of Health (2005) defines homelessness as a person who is without a conventional home. Homeless Australians have become disconnected from family and friend and has few, if any resource and very little prospect of achieving financial independence without Government assistant. This assessment will talk about Australia’s history with homelessness, it will go onto to talk about the Government’s role
The purpose of the programme was to upgrade existing hostel accommodations to improve the mental and physical health of homeless people, and to also help reduce the number of people presenting at Accident and Emergency departments (Gov.uk, 2015).
In recent years, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have identified rapid re-housing as a critical strategy to meeting the national goal of ending family homelessness by 2020 (USICH 2013). As noted in a recent update of Opening Doors, the federal plan to end homelessness, "[US Department of Health and Human Services], HUD, [the US Department of Veterans Affairs], and USICH have joined forces to promote expansion of rapid re-housing as a part of community coordinated systems" (USICH 2013). Rapid re-housing, an intervention that helps homeless families exit shelters and get back into permanent housing quickly, provides short-term help with housing expenses (e.g., rent arrears, ongoing rent assistance, moving costs) and case management focused on housing stability. Rapid re-housing is a relatively new but, as early evidence shows, promising strategy that communities across the country are
There are programs that can help these individual and families. People can get help though their local Human Services Department. The Human services provides aid to low income families and individuals. Some of these services include, housing, referrals for food pantry, emergency shelters, and outreach centers. Low income families and individual that qualified for these programs can include; single individuals, couples, families with children, elderly, veterans, and single mothers. Here is some information for programs for the homeless the State Rental Allowance Program (RAP) is a rent assistance program for the homeless that aid families and individuals. This program will help these individuals with temporary rent assistance for approximately
A Homeless Task Force was created by the Mayor of Sidney, Ohio. He saw that there were homeless citizens who were suffering in the cold. He created a Task Force in order to start programming and community services for these individuals.
Of that number, roughly 360,000 were individuals with 15% being chronically homeless and about 8% consisting of veterans. The National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) is a national network of activists, advocates, faith and community based service providers, and others committed to a single mission to prevent and end
The issue of the homelessness is one that has been prominent in the United States for many years. When it comes to the matter of helping out the homeless, people remain on opposite sides for two reasons. They either feel that the homeless need a little bit of help to get them back on their feet and are willing to help or that the homeless got themselves into the situation they are in and need to get themselves out of it. The government is one of the largest providers of funding for homeless programs and the main program that forms programs for this is the Department of Housing and Urban Development. With the government being one of the biggest stakeholders in the issue, the Trump administration will either help to put an end to the situation
Many social welfare policies have been put into place throughout the course of history to attempt to deal with the ever present problem of homelessness. Starting at the first widespread attempt by the government with the implementation of the Elizabethan Poor Law, which placed the plight of the poor into the realm of responsibilities of the community; and serves as the very basis for our
Purpose Homelessness is a major social justice issue globally, that affects everyone. I am focusing on the issue of homelessness in Australia as I believe we have an obligation towards these people in supporting them and doing more to improve this issue. According to The Footpath Library (2013) “On any given night 1 in 200 people are homeless in Australia.” Agencies in Australia that work towards eliminating homelessness include; St Vincent de Paul, Australian Red Cross, Rosie’s, Lighthouse foundation, Mission Australia, Backpack bed, Catholic Charities, Invisible People and The Exodus Foundation. Although these organisations are making a tremendous effort towards creating change people are still homeless, so more still needs to be done.
The issue of homelessness is very serious in modern society, and the increase number of the homeless is become very frightening. Homelessness doesn’t really have one clear definition. Today the focus is going to be directly on Australia. In Australia alone: 99,900 homeless people in Australia 54% adults over 24 years of age, 10% under the age of 12 years, 36% young people between 12 and 24 years. Of those 99,900, 23% were families with children.
It is also known that young people who experience homelessness whether it be “couch surfing” or sleeping rough on the streets become marginalised and there is a perception by the community that the problem is too complex. The cost to the Australian community is actually quite large in terms of health and community
Topic: Homelessness General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to get involved with the fight Homelessness. Thesis/ Central Idea: fighting homelessness is the first step to build a healthy society. I. INTRODUCTION-
The risk of individual who may currently have a home, but are at the brink of homelessness is high. It is often easier to ignore people who are homeless or even ignore that homelessness exists in our society because it is easier for society to blame the individual rather than society itself. It is important to advocate for those who are not able speak up for themselves. The article by the National Homeless Coalition (2009) states that there is a decline in public assistance for individuals who are homeless; therefore it is integral that we as a society seek assistance for these individuals and help promote awareness of the rise in homelessness.
INTRODUCTION About Shelter Partnership, Inc The case is about cost allocation accounting concerns in a non-profit corporation “Shelter Partnership, Inc”. The following summaries the key activities undertaken by Shelter and the way these different activities contribute towards the achievement of Shelter’s objective. Approach Before we dive into the case analysis, we would like to first discuss the relevant topic, which we see as the issue of cost accounting in a non-profit organization (“NPO”), to lay the foundation for the analysis of the case subsequently. (A) DISCUSSION OF THE RELEVANT TOPIC – A LITERATURE REVIEW It would be appropriate to develop some background knowledge about the limitation of financial statements of NPOs,