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    Homeless Youth

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    in cities with a large homeless teenage population. Teens often turn to drug trafficking‚ prostitution‚ and other forms of criminal activity in order to survive. In turn‚ this also causes a wide range of physical and mental health problems‚ including substance abuse. Although there are large numbers of homeless teens‚ they still remain lacking in many services. One of the most important services is education. This journal article focuses on the barriers to educating homeless teens and mechanisms that

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    Homeless in America

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    streets of vast cities of United States. Less attention are shown to those who are homeless‚ people focus more on bigger issues when this is a major problem that has occurred for years. Statistics shows that 1.6 million youth run away from home each year between the ages of 12 and 17. The predominant race for runaways is White non-Hispanic (57%)‚ Black non-Hispanic (17%)‚ Hispanic (15%)‚ and Other (11%) follow (Blaha). Homeless children most likely leave their original homes because of the way of life and

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    Homeless Shelter

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    Homeless Shelter HUM 114 Homeless Shelter When reading a news story the best thing to do is can open mind. When a person is done reading a news story then the person can take the time to research and read more than one article about the subject. Reporters do not always have time to do hours or days of research to make sure that all the facts are stated correctly. Even when the time is put into doing the research the reader may interpret the article differently than the writer intended.

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    Helping The Homeless Do you know how many people there are in the world with no home or money? There are millions and millions of homeless people in the world‚ and I want to help put a stop to it. I feel strongly about this because i grew up in Thailand when i was younger and seeing all these homeless people really impacted my life and how i thought about people. The three best ways that people can help the homeless are to help build shelters so that they are safe at night‚ to donate food so they

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    America it is not always the poor or the underclass that always ends up homeless. In many cases famous athletes‚ celebrities‚ and the upper class end up homeless around the world and it shocks us all. But the chances of an athlete becoming financially or structurally unstable is something Americans think can’t occur because athletes make so much money in their profession‚ but more times than not it does. Homelessness

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    Being Homeless Kaplan University HN200 1. In your text on Pages 206-207‚ the author discusses his research on the homeless population. He refers to the many routes one can take to become homeless. Choose two populations from his list that you might work with in your career as human services professional. Describe two possible interventions or tasks that you might be involved with in working with each population what are some of the general skills a human services professional might need

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    Homeless: Who Are They? In 2005‚ NCH (National Coalition for the Homeless) estimated 3.5 million people experience homelessness in the US every year (NCH‚1). But what is homelessness? Jim Baumohl‚ a noted author‚ explained in Homelessness in America‚ the most common definition of homelessness used by researchers is the “absence of belonging to a specific place or to people” (NCH‚ 3). However‚ there is no set definition‚ due to the variety of living conditions a homeless person encounters‚ and the

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    Homeless Assignment

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    A-For my abnormal assignment I went to Bellevue and stood outside of a store dressed as a homeless person. As people walked by me I held my card board sign that read “Abandoned by my parents and lost anything will help”. I dressed myself in ripped clothing and bagging clothing to display how poor I was. I also did not shower and looked very dirty by putting dirt marks on my face. B- As people walked by me I got a real feel for people and society. Many different shades of people passed me as I asked

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    year go without food and shelter. Thanks to homeless shelters we have found a way to help some of these people but unfortunately not all. Homelessness affects many people and hurts families and relationships all over the world. Homelessness is mainly derived from three major factors‚ poverty‚ unemployment‚ and lack of affordable housing. I believe that if we can recognize and act on these issues then we can help prevent many people from becoming homeless. Poverty results in having little money and

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    If I were to ask you to describe a homeless person‚ what’s the first picture that pops into your mind? Is it the scary looking man who sits on the corner every day? Is it the drug addict begging for money for his next fix? What about the family of four who has been couch hopping for the last year‚ while the mother went back to school and the father worked two jobs? Meanwhile‚ their kids are still going to school everyday in order to find that second chance that their parents are working so hard to

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