The Homeless Program: A Short Story

Homeless in America Homelessness affects millions of Americans each year, with approximately one third of this population suffering from severe mental disorders. In Las Cruces we have a number of homeless people that have a mental disorder. Las Cruces does not provide the homeless mentally ill with sufficient services.

Final Project: Creating a Social Program I have decided to create a social program that identifies the social problem of Homelessness. The new human services, social program will target helping homeless individuals and families to get off the streets. In order to have a successful program I have to come up with an outline and cover all of the basics. This program will have many different resources available to homeless or about to be homeless individuals and families. There are so many homeless people out there and her in the state of Florida there are not many places for homeless people to turn to for comfort and safety. So I am truly excited to be creating this new program that will help many people to go forward and live wonderful and successful lives, no matter what they have been through. Throughout this paper I will be discussing some of the things that are needed in order to start an organization. This paper will serve as an outline or an information source on how to create a social program as well as the social program that I am creating.

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.

The National Coalition for the Homeless is a local organization for people who are experiencing homelessness. The goal of the organization is to prevent and end homelessness while providing immediate services to those in need. Other organizations such as Volunteers of America, a nonprofit organization, work to prevent and end homelessness while providing services such as affordable housing.

Beds for Everybody One of the major issues nationally is people who are becoming homeless and the fact that one third of the homeless population have served this country, which is around 195,000 veterans. Thats more than the death count of the Vietnam war. Most homeless people are male about three percent are women, most are single and come from disadvantaged backgrounds. It's a major issue, this is America there should not be thousands of people across this nation that are homeless especially our veterans. They gave their life to this country; I think in return we could at least keep them in a home somewhere. It wouldn't be so bad if their was actually enough shelters to occupy all of the people that are homeless but the ratio to

Miranda C. Watkins usually I send a private email to those who are leaving the Homeless Program... in my 19 years of working here, truly I find joy in getting to know and work with you. We built a trust that I pray will last for years to come and hopefully out paths will one day cross again...

The homeless assistance programs in the United States are overloaded. There are more than half a million people who are currently homeless, either sleeping outside, in a transitional housing program, or in some sort of emergency shelter. Nearly 180,000 of those people are considered as unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside on the streets, or in makeshift tent cities (The State of Homelessness in America 2015, 2015). While the stigma of those who are homeless is widely perceived as those who are drug addicts, there are many other reasons people can find themselves without a place to call home. Foreclosure, poverty, eroding work opportunities, decline in public assistance, lack of affordable housing, domestic violence, and mental illness are

Who would have ever imagined years ago there would be so many people living out onto the streets. So many people just go on with their day to day lives not even paying attention to the struggling ones around them. There are some many people just walking past them every day without stopping to just asking them questions or even so just simply judging them. Ronald Davis- homeless Chicago man who had been living on the street for one year and a half as of April 2013 tells a heartbreaking story of surviving on the streets. He explain how he attempts to make his day to day living. Now this is just one of the 100 million estimated homeless people in the world. People tend to tell them to get a job, but how are they suppose to get a job if there is no phone to call them on? Or how are they supposed to get a job if the employer says that they are not dressed well enough. So, is there any room to ask what is there seriously being done to help homeless people?

In the midst of the homeless situation Bloomberg introduced a new prevention program Homebase, who worked mostly in the preventive service. Homebase worked with landlords in the legal aspect to prevent families to enter the shelter. Also, Bloomberg presented two different programs to assist family to exit the shelter. First Housing Stability Plus and the Work Advantage. Both programs failed to assist enough families to transition into a permanent location. The programs was a double-edge sword. Families moved out, however in order to be eligible for the program families needed to eligible for Public Assistance in top of it, families could not go over the poverty line, because the families will stop to be eligible for the program. By the end of Bloomberg at least 10000 families were in shelter. Lastly, the tendency showed no signs of reversing in the last years of Bloomberg administration. (Asher, Colin 2011).

percent increase since the homeless count in 2013 (Halstead). These numbers are only expected to go up in the coming years, as long the problem of not enough room in shelters exist.

I was 10 years old when I began going to a homeless ministry named Solomon’s Porch and I hated it with every inch of my being. Every Saturday morning my father would wake me up at 7am to take me to downtown Dallas, and I would nag my heart out-

The implication of my essay is, unless the criminal law of Victoria changes, the regulations of homelessness will consist of unreasonable restrictions of their movements to satisfy the majority population. The law has to balance the needs and wants of every person, and initially the law protects the right to protest (Mitchell 2005, p88). However, as time progresses, the individuals’ rights to privacy in public were prioritised instead (2005, p88). Although this statement referred to political dissent, it can also be interpreted for the anti-begging law that has restricted the homeless ability to communicate in public places, in order to produce a situation for the majority citizens to travel the streets of Melbourne undisturbed. As stated previously,

Homeless people are those who do not have the necessities to survive in this world like most fortunate people do. Some of the reasons why people end up becoming homeless are due to poverty, lack of funds to afford housing, loss of employment, drug addiction, or other personal issues. On a day-to-day basis, we see homeless people everywhere such as on the streets or by the freeway begging for money so they can be fed. After observing so many homeless people in Los Angeles, my mom and I decided to do some research to see where we can volunteer to feed the homeless. Soon enough, we found a place where we believed would be a perfect fit to help feed the homeless. Based on our research, we decided to volunteer at this social service organization by the name of St Francis Center located in Los Angeles. We both knew that would be the right place to help those who need it the most. This event was one that was based on a act of good deed, and I will be describing below what it was like to volunteer at St Francis Center, how my views changed on homeless people, and how it changed me for the better as a person.

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

As with every service planning area, there are numerous services or shelters that tend to the homeless. With the San Gabriel Valley services being so distant and clustered, it was difficult to assess the overall feel of the homeless services. That is, it was difficult to find any homeless shelters