Coun 504 Cultural Immersion

The population I chose to research is the homeless population and why do they become homeless. As many of you may have read in my bio, I stated that I work for a non-profit agency that assists homeless veterans to get off the streets. That is correct however I do not work directly with them nor have I had any experience with this population. I have only work in this position for two months and I had no knowledge about the homeless population at all. Another reason why I decided to research this population is because I am a veteran and I wanted to find out for myself what the reasons are why people become homeless. My ultimate goal is to work with veterans and counsel them with reintegration into civilian life. I know for me personally, it was a difficult adjustment. I became use to the structure, the protections and overall discipline and most importantly the comradery of my shipmates.
In my research thus far I have found there are many reasons why a veteran as well as anyone becomes homeless. Mostly they are economical, mental, physical (health wise) drug and alcohol abuses are the main reasons. Research studies indicate that in the veteran population younger veterans are becoming homeless, which was a great surprise to me. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are causing many of these issues. Another group of homeless are the older veterans and their reasons are similar to the younger veterans, most of them have been out of the military for quite sometime but because of never getting any treatment when they were discharged they had a hard time adjusting to life after the military.
The challenges I expect to face in the completion of this project would be the massive amount of information I have to decipher through. So far when I type in homeless veterans there is a vast array of material to go through. One the other hand that might be good as well because the message is out in the atmosphere about homeless veterans letting everyone in the world know that