Essay On Advocacy For Homeless
Advocating for the Homeless
Carla Drayton
BSHS/442 Advocacy and Mediation
Steven Zitar March 11, 2013
In this paper you will learn about some of the issues with advocacy in the human service field and how they are being address. This paper will give different areas that stand out in homelessness that needs to be examined. The areas that would be examined are the population of homeless people and their needs. The personal perspectives on assisting homeless people with problems as an advocate are as follows. There would be assist with clothing, food, shelter, job training, transportation, and manners and medical care if needed.
Specific Population: Homeless
Population for the homeless in one night in the United States last year was 633,782. …show more content…
219). Being an advocator for the homeless would be a huge step to teach them about to never giving up, and there is hope for their situation. As an advocacy different examples would be given to the homeless people about other homeless people so that they would have hope and start believing in themselves again. One of the examples would be Tyler Perry because he is a millionaire but at one point and time he was homeless and had a dream. Tyler Perry never gave up on his dream and because of that he is successful. This type of technique was used because each of them have a story on why or how they ended up homeless and unless that train of thought is broken the advocacy will never move forward with the clients. This step would be the most important step for the homeless people because without them believing in their selves nothing the advocacy will do would be successful. The advocacy would help the clients set goals, locate different resources that could help them as well as educate them on how to get a job. The advocacy would help the clients fulfill their goals so that they can get the glory out of doing something for their selves and have that goof feeling of wanting to continue to
Carla Drayton
BSHS/442 Advocacy and Mediation
Steven Zitar March 11, 2013
In this paper you will learn about some of the issues with advocacy in the human service field and how they are being address. This paper will give different areas that stand out in homelessness that needs to be examined. The areas that would be examined are the population of homeless people and their needs. The personal perspectives on assisting homeless people with problems as an advocate are as follows. There would be assist with clothing, food, shelter, job training, transportation, and manners and medical care if needed.
Specific Population: Homeless
Population for the homeless in one night in the United States last year was 633,782. …show more content…
219). Being an advocator for the homeless would be a huge step to teach them about to never giving up, and there is hope for their situation. As an advocacy different examples would be given to the homeless people about other homeless people so that they would have hope and start believing in themselves again. One of the examples would be Tyler Perry because he is a millionaire but at one point and time he was homeless and had a dream. Tyler Perry never gave up on his dream and because of that he is successful. This type of technique was used because each of them have a story on why or how they ended up homeless and unless that train of thought is broken the advocacy will never move forward with the clients. This step would be the most important step for the homeless people because without them believing in their selves nothing the advocacy will do would be successful. The advocacy would help the clients set goals, locate different resources that could help them as well as educate them on how to get a job. The advocacy would help the clients fulfill their goals so that they can get the glory out of doing something for their selves and have that goof feeling of wanting to continue to