L. T.: A Case Study

L. T. is a married women and she has been in a domestic violence situation for past two years. She is a documented immigrant but she is not a U.S. citizen. L. T. has good but limited English skills and graduated from high school. She and her two children want to leave the dangerous place and they need a plan. L. T. would want to seek for any help that she could obtain and she also need to work to make both herself and her children survive. The plan is consist of job opportunities, housing, public assistance, and other essential needs of her families. The life of L. T. and her children will be tough and L. T. need to find out a path and a successful approach for supporting a three-household family alone.
The foremost and important two tasks are employment and housing. L. T. need a stable income to consume the necessities and safe place to stay for herself and her children. The job my group
T. and her children would be more difficult gradually. The period and time limits of public assistance are mostly less than six months, and sometimes these social organizations could run out of money, that the money low-income families relies on for everyday. Without some public assistance, the living cost for L. T. and her children would rise to $1600 per month, and plan would fail if any accident or emergency happen to them. They would have to cut all the costs for entertainment and calculate every daily expense in order to decently survive. L. T. would be more likely to be psychologically unhealthy due to living under economic pressure and social stress, and she would also deal with the long term effect of domestic violence at the mean time. Although L. T. could acquire help from Women Space, the time of treatment would affect her ability of earning money. Therefore, L. T. and her plan have a high chance to fail in the future because of the living difficulties with two children, and their economically independent life would not last for even one