Homeless Community

One major community health issue that is prominent in society is homelessness. According to Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (2012), homelessness describes the situation of an individual or family who are unstable and cannot afford appropriate and permanent housing. They are unable to acquire suitable shelter due to possible reasons, such as financial issues, mental or physical challenges and discrimination. Most people do not choose to be homeless; however, when individuals are set to live unsheltered, the experience is often negative and stressful. The community aspect found within homelessness refers to society’s failure to ensure that everyone has access to housing. This may be due to inadequate systems, and lack of funding and support offered to people, especially those in troubled situations. Many people who are homeless often experience serious mental and physical health implications as well as a change in their overall well-being. Particular individuals who are at risk of homelessness may be affected by personal risk factors, such as substance misuse and mental illness. However, not only does this issue affect homeless or at risk individuals, but it also affects members of the community. As the population of people living on the streets or in shelters increase, communities are impacted through the increased demand of services and supports.

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

Having the privilege to work in one of the busiest emergency departments in Florida, I get to meet many different types of individuals, many of those being homeless. Homeless persons are high risk individuals requiring ED services due to their poor health status, high rates of morbidity, lack of health insurance, chronic use of alcohol and drug abuse, unintentional injuries and much more (Tang, Stein, Hsia, Maselli & Gonzales, 2010). According to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (2015), a homeless person is defined as an individual without permanent housing who may or may not be living on the streets; but in a shelter, mission, facility, vehicle, or in an unstable situation. The major precipitating factor contributing to homelessness is the shortage of adequate low-income housing (Shi & Singh, 2015).

Families live, die and are born on the streets of vast cities of United States. Less attention are shown to those who are homeless, people focus more on bigger issues when this is a major problem that has occurred for years. Statistics shows that 1.6 million youth run away from home each year between the ages of 12 and 17. The predominant race for runaways is White non-Hispanic (57%), Black non-Hispanic (17%), Hispanic (15%), and Other (11%) follow (Blaha). Homeless children most likely leave their original homes because of the way of life and the hard pressure due to their living environment and family issues. Homelessness makes children sick, wounds young children, & homeless children often struggle in school. Homeless children are in

The followings are the possible extraneous variables that can be influenced the study include: Settings, present health status, and the tool using (tape recorder). Settings can influence the result of this study because homeless individuals who live on the streets roam around and they normally do not have a stable place to be. Fortunately, these particular homeless individuals can be controlled because they can be targeted at Salvation Army Ministries lunches serving streets in most of the Polk County. These individuals regularly roaming on these specific streets and corners to get lunch every day and they will be the best participants to recruit for this study. The present health status must also consider because if their basic needs such

I think homeless population are underserve . Even though many of this individuals suffered mental illness, criminal records on their file,trauma and no family support, I think homeless populations are underserve because of the high cost of housing in San Diego, Ca. This population interests me due to not only because I have children of my own and would never want them to go through life without roof over their head. Also, I work in Downtown San Diego and drive every day seeing many homeless individuals including families sleeping outside their tents and it bothers me to see this. Shelters in Downtown San Diego are so full, that people sleep outside the building waiting for a open bed, this is disturbing to see every day. Lack of Federal funding

Ben joined the Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County in 2013 as a part-time Facility Manager. Through his hard work and dedication, he was promoted to the Case Management Department as a Men’s Case Manager by the end of 2013. Having acquired his Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington, Ben’s attentiveness in serving the homeless population advanced as a team-player and recognized this was where he belonged. Strong-minded to further pursue his passion in serving others, learn administrative roles, and community advocacy, Ben enrolled back into the School of Social Work – at the University of Texas at Arlington, as a Community and Administrative Practice (CAP) student, and will be graduating December 2017 with

There are many avenues one could choose when looking for a way to give back to the community. I decided to focus on giving back to the homeless population. For one week, a group of church members, and myself went to the state of California to serve the homeless population in Los Angeles, and San Francisco in more ways than one. We started the journey in downtown L.A.. That first morning we were given beaten-up clothing, and sent out the door of the hotel with no breakfast or money. In partners we headed toward skid row to seek out a corner for pan-handling before meeting at The Mission for lunch. Skid row is an area of L.A. that most do not venture into. The streets are filled to capacity with many different people that all have one thing in common, homelessness. The filth is outrageous, and the smell of different bodily fluids is unbearable. There are no smiles, or warm feelings; it is survival of the fittest. The experience opened everyone’s eyes to the pain, and unseen struggles of homelessness. We were better equipped to help the people we would be meeting as the trip continued. At the end of the day, the money collected as a group was donated to The Mission.

Have you ever felt strongly about something? There are others who have to, join the cause to help fight the homelessness crisis,, you canmake a difference. The homeless crisis is a worldwide problem that needs to be resolved. It is so bad we have children in unconventional living places such as under bridges, foster homes, and in general outside. We need to solve it efficiently and effectively. Through fundraising foundations, temporary shelters, and last but not least Soup Kitchens we can dramatically reduce homelessness.

Many youths choose to run away from home for many reasons including escaping an abusive and/or neglectful home environment, however life on the street does not provide safety from abuse and victimization. In fact, over 70% of all runaway/thrownaway youth are in danger during their time away from home due to factors such as substance dependency, sexual or physical abuse and being in a high-crime area (Hammer et al, 2002). Nineteen percent of runaway/thrownaway youth are substance dependent and 17% were using hard drugs (Hammer et al, 2002). Researchers, Al-Tayyib, Rice, Rhoades, and Riggs, found that about 22% of runaway and homeless youth have misused prescription drugs in the past 30 days (2014). Prescription drug abuse kills more people per

Native Americans are composed of numerous, distant tribes, bands and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact, sovereign nations. Once a self-governing, self-sufficient people, America Indians were forced to give up their homes and their land, and to subordinate themselves to an alien culture. From the origin of their tribes in the 1500’s to the early nineteenth century, American Indians have experienced oppression. Today, American Indians are more numerous than they have been for several centuries (Andersen & Collins, 2012). Today, Native Americans have a unique

The McKinney Assistance Act of 1987, was developed to assist all the homeless population in the United States since this community had started to be a noticeable issue in the communities. As stated by the National Coalition for the Homeless (2006), The Act initially included several emergency services such transitional living centers, health care, job training, emergency shelters, educational workshops and at times permanent housing. However, regardless of the increase in funding, it still had not succeeded as planned. The reason why was because the increase of homeless across the United States. This increment created a current issue derived from these services: the increase of homeless. Despite the significant assistance from the act programs,

Between 240,000 and 400,000 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) youth experience at least one episode of homelessness each year in the United States (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2008). LGBT status increases risk of homelessness and impedes the youth’s attempts to exit homelessness, therefore the youth experience high rates of sex work, HIV risk, substance use, mental illness, and suicidal ideation (Keuroghlian, Shtasel, & Bassuk, 2014; Tyler, 2008; Walls & Bell, 2011). The recognition of the importance of the social determinants of health is linked to social justice, education, shelter, food security and self-determination (Mohajer & Ernest, 2010). Their fundamental human rights are being violated, including the right to suitable