Prevention Nicole Griffin HSM/210 April 5‚ 2015 Elise Merenda Prevention The targeted population that I chose to write about is the homeless. With over 4‚000 people dealing with homelessness in Connecticut‚ the majority of these people facing this problem have some sort of mental illness‚ physical disabilities‚ or dealing with a form of substance abuse problem ("Partnership for Strong Communities"‚ 2015). A lot of this problem stems from the people being released prematurely from mental hospitals
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CRIMINALIZATION OF THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY Many individuals experience homelessness do not have certain needs‚ including affordable housing‚ adequate income and health care. Some homeless persons may need additional services such as mental health or drug treatment in order to be securely housed. This research paper will discuss what homeless means‚ various ways in which individuals become homeless‚ trends‚ laws that effect the homeless ‚ and do decriminalization of the homeless community help
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February 16‚ 2014 Teressa Jones Secondary prevention is applicable to the issue of homelessness‚ according to Goodstein and Calhoun‚ (1982)‚ “involves early diagnosis and treatment of a disorder at a stage when problem may be nipped in the bud” (p.499). Using this prevention strategy will provide help for people before they become
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Carlos Lyons Lyons 1 Ryan Weldon ENGLISH 201 10-25-2012 Media and Poverty The effect media has on modern society is enormous. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that something as simple as one person reading a newspaper‚ watching news‚ or going out to the movie theater to watch a current Hollywood Blockbuster‚ can can influence society as a whole. Media can target society as a whole or isolate a certain sector of society. In this review I would like to focus on one
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opportunity to conduct a well-developed research. While walking through the streets‚ I can often see one or several homeless people who have no place to live. Since this problem appeared to me important‚ I decided to write my essay on the topic of homelessness‚ researching the causes and effects of the issue as well as offering some opportunities to solve the problem. As far as the problem can be faced by everyone‚ I tried to make my essay understandable. I used some statistics to show the scope of
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A Detailed Analysis of Homelessness among United States Military Veterans University of Central Florida PAD 3003 7/20/2014 Abstract In the United States‚ homelessness among veterans is a massive epidemic that the government is currently battling. Returning from military service to no home‚ is a situation no one should bare. The VA has vowed to end veteran homelessness by the year 2015. To combat this issue‚ the government instated the Open Doors program in 2009. As of 2013 there were roughly
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EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS INTRODUCTION According to a recent study conducted by the National Center on Family Homelessness‚ there are approximately 1.5 million children in America that experience homelessness each year. Of these children 902‚108 are school-aged and enrolled in school. Approximately seventy-eight percent of these enrolled children are in kindergarten through eighth grade‚ while the remaining twenty-two percent are in ninth through twelfth grade.[1] Homelessness presents a
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Hub). Additionally‚ the City of Toronto Street Needs Assessment confirmed that about twenty percent of the youth in shelters identify as LGBTQ2 which is unsurprisingly more than double the rate for all age groups (The Homeless Hub). The LGBTQ2’s homelessness is most likely due to homophobia from peers and most importantly‚ the parents of the youth (The Homeless Hub). It is sad to say that the children who run away from their homes in hopes of escaping discrimination end up being discriminated against
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Runaway youth is a serious problem that America faces today. Whether it’s just a youth’s way of trying to hurt their parent’s feelings‚ threating to run away is no laughing matter. Sometimes it’s not a threat to run away‚ sometimes they leave unannounced leaving the parent usually with grief‚ anger‚ and confusion. Between 1.6-2.8 million youth run away each year in the United States (The Truth About Runaway Teens‚ 2013). Those numbers are just the numbers of youth running away. Even when a youth
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Poverty and Kids In the United Stated‚ poverty and homelessness are the most serious issue all over the major cities. According to the Institute for Children and Poverty‚ there were an estimated 1.35 million children were possible to undergo homelessness over the year of 2004. In the reading “Still Hungry‚ Still Homeless”‚ the authors use the data to express their concern of homelessness. On the other hand‚ Anna Quindlen’s article “Our Tired‚ Our Poor‚ Our Kids” uses a different way with different
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