Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable Population Homeless Persons
University of Phoenix
By: Diana Thornton
August 24, 2009
What does the word population and Vulnerable mean? Population means the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. Vulnerable population is defined as individuals made vulnerable by:
Financial circumstances or place of residence
Health age
Functional or developmental status
Ability to communicate effectively
Presence of chronic or terminal illness or disability
Personal characteristics Population less able than others to safeguard their own needs and interests adequately Homelessness is the condition and social category of people who lack housing, because they cannot afford, and or unable to maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing. It may also include people whose primary nighttime residence is in a homeless shelter. Homeless shelter is an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for a permit sleeping accommodation for people who are homeless. An estimated 100 million people worldwide who are homeless. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines a "chronically homeless" person as "an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more, or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years."
Proposed solutions to homelessness: Housing First, In the USA, the government asked many major cities to come up with a 10 year plan to end homelessness and one of the results of this was a "Housing First" solution which quickly gets a homeless person permanent housing of some sort and the necessary support services to sustain a new home. Many complications with theses kind of program and they must be dealt with in order to make work successfully in the middle to long term.
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University of Phoenix
By: Diana Thornton
August 24, 2009
What does the word population and Vulnerable mean? Population means the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. Vulnerable population is defined as individuals made vulnerable by:
Financial circumstances or place of residence
Health age
Functional or developmental status
Ability to communicate effectively
Presence of chronic or terminal illness or disability
Personal characteristics Population less able than others to safeguard their own needs and interests adequately Homelessness is the condition and social category of people who lack housing, because they cannot afford, and or unable to maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing. It may also include people whose primary nighttime residence is in a homeless shelter. Homeless shelter is an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for a permit sleeping accommodation for people who are homeless. An estimated 100 million people worldwide who are homeless. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines a "chronically homeless" person as "an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more, or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years."
Proposed solutions to homelessness: Housing First, In the USA, the government asked many major cities to come up with a 10 year plan to end homelessness and one of the results of this was a "Housing First" solution which quickly gets a homeless person permanent housing of some sort and the necessary support services to sustain a new home. Many complications with theses kind of program and they must be dealt with in order to make work successfully in the middle to long term.
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