want to inform the audience of the many reasons that cause homelessness and what brings a person to become homeless. III. It isn’t always drug or alcohol addiction that creates homeless situations. Body I. Who‚ and why are they homeless? A. Families with children. 30% B. Children under 18 years old 39% C. Veterans 13% D. Victims of domestic violence 15% E. Mental Illness 26% F. Addiction disorders 30% II. Reasons for homelessness. A. Poverty‚ less job opportunities‚ economic downturn
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National Coalition for the Homeless 2201 P Street‚ NW Washington‚ DC 20037-1033 http://www.nationalhomeless.org Tel. 202-462-4822 Fax. 202-462-4823 Email. info@nationalhomeless.org Homelessness Among Elderly Persons Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless‚ September 2009. When thinking about homelessness‚ the elderly people issue doesn’t immediately come to our mind. Homeless elders‚ although increasing in numbers‚ continue to be a forgotten population. The poverty rate in 2008 (13
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Welfare Departments provide housing. Other key players will also be included to support more funding for the development of new villages for homeless people. This project will broaden and stimulate housing on a larger scale to combat the epidemic of homelessness in this country. Community shelters are currently struggling to supply the needs of these homeless people‚
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05-Coley-45286.qxd 6/12/2007 11:48 AM Page 39 5 WRITING THE NEEDS OR PROBLEM STATEMENT Chapter topics: Definitions The purpose of the needs statement A guide to writing the needs statement The needs statement or problem statement provides the rationale for the request for funding and uses data and other objective resources that substantiate the need for finding a solution to the concern. This chapter will guide you through the process for crafting a need/problem statement. DEFINITIONS
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Vulnerable Populations: Homelessness BSHS 302 As far back as the fourteenth century‚ homelessness was only an issue for those who could help it. The church in these times was able to take care of the deserving poor and make sure that they were not on the streets. At this time the homeless people included those who wandered‚ such as men who were migrating workers; they made up most of the homeless population at this time. The undeserving poor were sometimes forced to work in work camps and
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identifies as LGBTQ+‚ yet forty percent of that seven experiences homelessness (“9 Quick Facts About LGBT Youth Experiencing Homelessness”). LGBT homelessness is often referred to as an “invisible issue” because no one really pays attention to such a problem. However in just this past year‚ an organization called the True Colors Fund has trained and educated members of communities much like even yours on the subject of LGBT youth homelessness. True Colors Fund was founded in April 2010 by Jonny Podell
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Examine the functionalist view of the family Broadly speaking‚ the functionalist perspective has focused on the functions of the family in society and for its members. In other words‚ it looks at how the family‚ as an institution‚ helps in maintaining order and stability in society‚ and the significance of the family for its individual members. There are two main functionalist views on the family – Murdock’s view and Parsons’ view. Murdock’s view on the family is that the family performs four basic
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domestic violence‚ disabilities‚lack of accessible healthcare‚poverty‚social exclusion‚ mental disorders‚mortgages and lack of payment and inability to afford a home.i now understand that it s not just laziness and other superficial issues that cause homelessness but also other reasons. Therefore any homeless person i meet on the streets‚ all this
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examination or assessment‚ is personality disorder. d. These men and women come back from war and hope there country will be there to help them‚ but instead they turning away from vets leaving them on their own with no medicical help. B. Homelessness a. When you walk around a city like Chicago you see many homeless people on the street begging for money so the can eat some food for the first time that week. Well it may surprise that a high majority of those people you see are veterans
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problems but avoid surgery as they fear they won’t be able to afford it. In addition‚ homeless shelters have become full due to the increase of homelessness‚ causing some victims to sleep in tents (a bit like a tent city)‚ in their cars‚ in motels‚ and in drains underneath Las Vegas! These facts are alarming and show that America’s poverty has caused homelessness‚ no dinner‚ and no health insurance. Furthermore‚ since Barack Obama has become president there has been a rise in the amount of Americans with
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