Homelessness Prevention Plan

Homelessness In Baltimore Homelessness has become an epidemic issues across the world. Baltimore City has become a hot spot for the homeless. According to statistics, Baltimore City is rising at thirty thousand homeless individuals with the given year (Shocking Stats About Homelessness in Baltimore and USA, 2016). On any given night, Baltimore City streets will be homes for three thousand individuals (Shocking Stats About Homelessness in Baltimore and USA, 2016). This is an on going problem that continues to grow every year. There are several prevention programs in placed to help the homeless in Baltimore City, however it is not enough to get them off the streets for good. A better prevention plan needs to be implemented. This paper will
The use of primary prevention can be used to prevent further homelessness, secondary prevention can be used to prevent the homelessness problem from occurring further, and tertiary prevention can be used to prevent homelessness from becoming catastrophic (Laureate Education, 2008). The prevention plan to decrease homelessness in Baltimore City is a combination of incident prevention and psychological health prevention. By using incident prevention, preventionists can use the formula of factors, stress, and exploitation over coping skills, self esteem, and support groups (Albee & Ryan-Finn, 1993). By incorporating psychological health prevention, preventionists can increase the strengths and decrease the limitations of the homeless, while creating an increased social network, decrease social stress, and enhance the environmental resources (Gladding & Newsome,
By bringing awareness to the individual’s strengths and limitation, they will be able to visibly see what areas they need to work on to better their lives and no longer face the struggles of homelessness. Decreasing social stressors is the next step to help the homeless (Gladding & Newsome, 2003). Stressors are going to seem magnified for the homeless because they are may not have the recourses to decrease their stressors. Enhancing the homeless individuals environmental resources is the last part of the prevention plan (Gladding & Newsome, 2003). Providing the homeless with shelter or permanent housing is the critical aspect in the prevention