Human Services In Rural America

The Family Resource Center is funded from a grant through the Mississippi Department of Human Services and a state Economic Assistance Program. Other sponsors include United Way of Northeast Mississippi, Department of Public Safety, National Children’s Alliance, CREATE, ICC, The Stubbs Foundation, Lee County

Poverty and eviction is not only an individual dilemma but also a community problem. An eviction in one neighborhood has the potential to disrupt multiple neighborhoods, creating disorganization among the entire community. A community is supposed to be a symbol of stability and public expansion. However, in Evicted impoverished communities represented disorganization, lack of stability, and stagnant public expansion. Many of the individuals in the study did not rely on their communities or city programs to assist them because they knew they were inconsistent. Outreach programs and schools typically provide community support but when communities are in poorer neighborhoods that do not do well economically finding finances and volunteers making running the programs difficult. Instead of relying on community support, people relied on their own families or themselves. Issues occurred when individuals tried to assist each other while neither of them had the means financially or emotionally to support others. Because of lack of organization and support, many people felt distrust towards social institutions in the community (Desmond, 2016).

I come from a small rural town nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. My hometown is split down the middle by a set of railroad tracks. On the north side, one can find pristine neighborhoods, newer schools, most doctors’ offices, and the only hospital in town. The south side of the town stands as a stark contrast. On the south side, you no longer find the wealthy neighborhoods but rather dilapidated and condemned homes and housing projects. One seems to find abandoned buildings on every corner, many inhabited by those that have lost their homes. Limited help is coming for those who need it, mostly through churches and volunteer programs targeting the underserved. Many doctors, dentists, and nurses are giving their time and resources to help

The economic boundaries for the southern part of Oklahoma City can run the gambit from residents below poverty level to those that would be considered to be upper-class in their monetary value. There are neighborhoods that many would not feel comfortable after dark because there has been a rise in crime to those areas. The zoning of these homes are single story, quarter acre lots that are approximately one thousand to fifteen hundred square feet. These impoverished areas have small, older homes that are two to three bedroom homes that are unkempt and, at times, are cockroach infested. The houses are built closely side by side and do not have much open space throughout the neighborhood. Most of these homes show signs of decay related to the amount of repairs that need to be made to the home. Many of the residents are renting and cannot afford to make the necessary repairs or have landlords that are unwilling to comply with the safety of their occupants. The stores in the south part of Oklahoma City are ones that cater to a lower income, such as, Payday loans, Buy For Less, Ross, Payless shoes, Wal Mart, etc.

Production-based farming drives people out of the smaller communities because the production damages the economy of the town. Berry reflects, "The little towns that once had been social

Picture This: coming home to place where there aren’t any lights, water and probably no meal for the day. According to Human Services in Contemporary America poverty is the main reason why many babies don’t make it to see adulthood and why clean water and sanitation are not provided. It is the underlying cause of reduced life expectancy, and disability. Poverty is a major contributor to malnutrition, stress, divorces of a family and abuse (Schmolling).

Rural communities struggle to provide healthcare and shelter for the homeless population. The lack of public visibility of families in shelters receiving services that can assist with housing, adequate healthcare, and humane support to overcome the bias of homelessness in Bemidji Minnesota remains dismal. The notion of being out of sight in a temporary shelter leads to marginalization of these families as a unit of care. Rural communities must find mechanisms within healthcare to bring further assistance to vulnerable families to support the family bond.

Opioid abuse, cardiometabolic diseases, and diseases of lifestyle and social fabric are few of the health problems that are predominant in the southeast region of the country. Tennessee is in the lowest 25th quartile in the overall health performance among the low-income population in the southeast region. Hence, there is a need to address specifically, socioeconomic determinants in tackling these problems. These socioeconomic determinants are usually referred to as the causes of the causes of the diseases.

Charity Productions in partnership with the College of Architecture’s Texas Target Communities Program at Texas A&M University have collaborated together to develop a set of solutions in response to the pre-existing neighborhood conditions throughout Harris County in Houston, Texas. The conditions of these particular neighborhoods have created a pattern of disparities throughout Harris County to be recognized as constraints to residents in impeding their ability to become affluent members of society. Texas Target Communities and Charity Productions have taken a step further to not only provide an analysis of evidence for these disparities but to identify the assets present in these communities to formulate feasible and cost effective solutions.

Shannon, Havens, Mateyoke-Scrivner, & Walker, (2009) reviewed the various types of substances used by women going into treatment who were of the rural Appalachian and non-Appalachian areas of Kentucky. Shannon et al. sampled 2,786 women who were going into treatment in Kentucky. The state of Kentucky sponsored the drug abuse program. The participants were evaluated for their use of opiates, alcohol, stimulants, cocaine, sedatives, and tranquilizers over 12 months as well as lifetime use. Findings showed that rural Appalachian women going into drug treatment had higher use of opiates than non-Appalachian women did.

Several cities across the nation developed and thrived as large metropolitan attracting young educated modernist. Most modernist were young college graduates, immigrants, African Americans fleeing the South, and new business owners from across the globe called the municipalities their new homes. Many, but not all rural people had a concept to attenuate the modernist federal government. Farmers did fail across countrywide, without any support from banks or government programs about 20% of farms were foreclosed upon for tax reasons. Almost all rural areas stayed underdeveloped, without any healthcare, uneducated, and holding a hazy future outlook. Even with technology spreading into the countryside, the average house did not have running water, electricity, appliances, but most possessed an automobile. A major goal that weakened the nation was the apartheid mentality most of these people believed, and their values were seen to spread into the government sectors within the entire

Research requires the nursing scientists to explore the context of problems encountered. In order to identify targeted directions to hone efforts researchers must first identify the variables to be studied. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the variables of Rural and Access to Mental Health Providers.

Public assistance in America came about in 1935 when the Social Security Act was passed. This act remains the most significant piece of social legislations ever enacted in the United States. It also paved the way for greater federal involvement in health and welfare (Ambrosino, Ambrosino, Heffernan, Shuttlesworth, 2016). There are three main aspects of the Social Security Act, such as Social Insurance, Public Assistance and Health and Welfare Services. Out of those three aspects, I will be talking about Public Assistance or better known as welfare. There are different benefit programs of public assistance such as Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Assistance, also known as food stamps or the

Many of the homes in the neighborhoods in the area are dirty and in need of repair. The yards are full of garbage and items such as old

Rural America at the end of 19th century was characterized by depending on the earther for the crops, going into debt trying to survive, as well as unrest against monopolies on transportation, land, and money. On the other hand, the rural America was beautiful and full of small, good things. I believe that Hamlin Garland shows the best example of the rural America in his early works. As he visited Dakota territory after living in Boston, he realizes the futility and hardship of pioneer life. He decided to depict the stories of people struggling against nature (such as weather or plagues) and greedy speculators on the farms as they try to make a living through very hard work. Garland also showed another aspect of the rural life in America –