People Place Homeless Shelter: A Case Study

Homeless people are one of the major problems with america today, it is a very big problem that needs to be dealt with.

Homelessness is a social issue which extends beyond a lack of housing and includes the complexities of social and economic concerns such as domestic violence, child abuse, trauma and addictions, mental health, insufficient income, health complications, involvement with the justice system, and poverty. Homelessness is a difficult phenomenon to define as it is dependent upon societal constructs, mainly revolving around the concept of ‘home’ and how it is largely influenced by family structures more so than it is by living without physical shelter (Watson, 1984, p. 60). The Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS] defines homelessness as a lack of suitable accommodation, without tenure or extendable tenure, and does not have the security of

Homeless is taking place throughout the world. That is an issue because some people still end back on the street or never had the opportunity to get off the street. Some inviduals may still be on the street and never go the opportunity to get off the street. Each inviduals have their own story of how they became homeless. Some inviduals may have ended up homeless due to unemployment, house caught on fire, was staying with a family member who later passed away, never had money save in case of a emergency and the list goes on. The issue that relate to housing for the homeless is that it is not enough space for everyone. The programs that is available tend to be overcrowded due to so many people being homeless with nowhere to go. Another issue with housing for the homeless is the environment in some programs. The environment can be harmful and unhealthy to an inviduals and especially a homeless child. When a child is homeless, that has a effect on them growing up as far as their mentality and their skills and ability of learning.

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

Scenario 4 entitled Homelessness involves a teacher that considers herself culturally competent. Jenny is a new second grade teacher who works at a racially/ethnically diverse elementary school in a high socio-economic neighborhood. The teacher informed and expected all her students to bring in materials for an art project. Two boys did not, they gave her a rude response to why they did not have them, and she was irritated that they did not tell her she could not get the materials. Eventually, she found out the boys were homeless and living in a shelter.

Homelessness in America has been slowly decreasing since 2013. In 2014 the New York City shelter system reported an increase of seven percent, from 50,135 in 2013 to 53,615 in 2014. In 2013 more than 111,000 different New Yorkers looked to the shelter system to give them safety, this is also including 40,000 different children. Overall homelessness has dropped by at least 2.3 percent, homelessness has decreased among every subpopulation. Veterans make up 10.5 percent of all homeless people, Veteran homelessness has dropped down to 25.5 homeless veterans out of every 10,000 veterans.

Everybody knows what it means for someone to be homeless, but most people do not really know what it means to actually be homeless. This is the basis of my project, conducting research over five weeks to learn as much as possible about the homeless and evaluating the change in my levels of empathy. In order to evaluate any change, I first had to outline my feelings about the homeless. In general, although I didn’t have "extreme feelings towards the homeless", I felt this assignment could "change my perspective". Most of my opinions were generalizations about the homeless "having done something wrong rather than" assuming misfortune, "accept[ing] their position and not attempt[ing] to

Homelessness is often affiliated with substance abuse. While it is true that many within this group have a drug or alcohol problem or sometimes even both, some say it would be wrong to claim that the two are always linked. Most addicts don’t become homeless and most homeless people aren’t addicts. Homelessness occurs for many different reasons. It is a difficult situation that does not seem to have any easy solutions. Some individuals may later turn to addiction as a way to cope with their lack of a safe haven. It can be complex to determine how much substance abuse leads to homelessness compared with the rate by which homelessness leads to substance abuse. In the past it was common to punish the homeless people by whipping them in public or

Two weeks after our initial encounter with Felix, we were able to get in contact with Delores Martinez, the case manager at the California Hispanic Commission. She is the primary case manager that oversees year round shelter, and works outside the facility by providing guidance to families and referring them to other agencies that can help with a bigger scope of services. Some of these agencies include B.R.I.D.G.E.S rehab (provides residential treatment and social rehab to adults from ages 18-59), Spirit Family Services (provide walk in counseling for recovering alcoholics, domestic violence programs for men, and parenting classes), and Prototypes Community Assessment Center (aid in substance abuse and homeless intensive treatment, where the

UpSpring primary challenge is exposing homelessness for what it really looks like in America in 2016. Mr. Moleski states that it is “by no fault of any person, I don’t tax anybody for what they don’t know, but others need to know that the average of a homeless person is 9 years of age.” He shared that when you share this fact with people, they think you are not telling the truth. Once the scope homelessness is explained to the person in disbelief they become enlightened.

ICM met with Mrs. Lampfield at John F. Kennedy Behavioral Health Center to assist her with her basic needs goal and to complete some paperwork. ICM provided with the upcoming dates for the free legal clinic offered through the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP); Mrs. Lampfeid will attend the legal clinic on Friday, December 16th at 2:00pm. ICM will accompany Mrs. Lampfield to the legal clinic. ICM informed Mrs. Lampfield of the documentation that is required in order to obtain assistance from the legal clinic. ICM provided Mrs. Lampfield with a planner to keep track of her scheduled appointments. ICM encouraged Mrs. Lampfield to fill in the information for Friday’s appointment at HAP. ICM asked Mrs. Lampfield for an update on her suspension status

Some estimates suggest HIV rates to be three times higher in homeless populations as compared to the general population.1 With 51% of homeless adults reporting engaging in high-risk sexual activity and a positive association between homelessness, substance abuse, and HIV risk, HIV testing is necessary for early detection and transmission prevention.2,3 An increased likelihood of annual testing is associated with more frequent encounters with medical services (eg, injection drug users), interactions with the criminal justice system, and veteran status.1 For example, 75% of previously incarcerated persons reported being tested for HIV while in the justice system.1 As a result of testing, there is a decreased likelihood of transmission in those

HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: This patient is a 40-year-old male. Industrial injury, he got his finger caught in something at work. He sustained an open fracture, distal phalanx of the left small finger. He was seen in the ER. The finger was sutured in the ER. He presents for followup here.

Kathy and Raymond have visits one day per week for two hours per day. Worker supervises these visits once per month. The first visit this worker will be supervising is on November 23, 2016. These visits occur at the Godfrey, Illinois McDonalds play place, but were taking place outside in the community prior to this when the weather is nicer. During the last supervised visit the case assistant observed Raymond reading the newspaper. The tried children interact with the case assistant; the case assistant redirects the children to interact with Kathy and Raymond. Johnathan spent most of the visit in the play place and Zoey spent most of the visit on the tablet. Raymond left the visit and returned 20 minutes later telling Kathy “they (the children)

Homelessness is a person or a family that don’t have a place to use as a house or shelter. US government provides emergency/winter shelters for homeless people living in the United States. Winter shelters are really useful for homeless people, but there is one problem about this service. States have the control of opening and closing these shelters. Before the beginning of winter, every state chooses a temperature to open winter shelters, and they open shelters when the weather is lower than the chosen temperature. For example New York City decided to open its winter shelters when the weather is colder than 32 F previous winter. Every state has a different temperature to open its shelters. Lethal hypothermia can be caused when the