...homelessness are people just like us. They desire financial stability and a secure home, but have confronted difficult circumstances without sufficient resources to overcome the situation and remain housed. Unfortunately, that is the reality of homelessness today. Typically, families become homeless as a result of some unforeseen financial crisis - a medical emergency, a car accident, a death in the family - that prevents them from being able to hold on to housing. Most homeless families are able to bounce back from homelessness quickly, with relatively little public assistance. Usually, homeless families require rent assistance, housing placement services, job assistance, and other short-term, one-time services before being able to return to independence and stability. In the case study, "Mayor Schell's Zero Homeless Family Pledge", Norton discusses the challenges facing a policy manager in a large city (Seattle) government agency who is expected to implement a bold new policy to reduce homelessness that may exceed the local government's capacity to address the issue. In the case, the mayor of Seattle pledges in June that there will be no homeless families with children or homeless women by Christmas. The manager in the case, Alan Painter, shares the mayor's commitment and enthusiasm for reducing homelessness in the city, but has many concerns about the feasibility of the mayor's pledge. Painter knows the current...
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...Human Services Professional Worksheet BSHS 355 September 16, 2014 University of Phoenix Material Human Services Professional Worksheet Select three agency types from the following list: |A drug and alcohol treatment program |A hospital rehabilitation center (A physical rehabilitation center) | |A homeless shelter |A crisis intervention center | |A day treatment drop-in center for teenagers | | Complete the table for the chosen agencies by providing a 60- to 85-word response in each column. An example has been completed as a guide. |The agency |Description of the agency |Who they serve |The professionals involved with the |The professional’s role | | | | |agency | | |A domestic violence program|A domestic violence program provides |As mentioned, this program may |In many residential programs, |The role of the professional working in a| | |protection and...
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...is the results of numerous underlying factors; however, not all homeless situations will be the same. There are numerous reasons why people become homeless. The first reason is the economy, for those who are looking for a job; they are only wasting their time because jobs are so limited. Second, from time-to-time governmental agencies are forever changing their eligibility requirements to receive government assistance. As a result, many homeless families are denied. Third, As a result, of budgets cuts many governmental agencies are unable to help these homeless families, because there are not enough funds available to provide assistance to these families (Valek, 2012). Thesis Statement: Since homelessness affects a diverse array of people, there is a dire need to address homelessness and these specialized areas that surrounds it, such as psychological, social, and basic human needs. Prior to Mayor Schell developing his plan, he has considered using his own strategies. The first strategy that Mayor Schell will be using is supportive services. This particular strategy was designed for helping Mayor Schell as a means of requesting more money in order to provide more services. Mayor Schell will be seeking outside sources such as governmental grants, along with donations from the community, and fund raisers. In fact, this particular strategy can also help to change some of the conditions in homeless shelters. ...
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...Homeless in Prince William County Introduction and background: Homelessness is one of our nation’s most misunderstood and vexing social problems. Many individuals of all races struggle with the devastating effects of homeless including families with children, single adults, teenagers and the elderly. This is an issue that can be defined as living in unsuitable, unsafe and overcrowded environment. “On a single night in January 2013, there were 610,042 people experiencing homelessness in the United States, including 394,698 people who were homeless in sheltered locations and 215,344 people who were living in unsheltered locations” (Henry & Cortes, 2013). This shows homelessness in American is a crisis, many more individuals become homeless everyday. They struggle moving from place to place, night after night, in constant state of fear and survival. People become homeless for a variety of reasons. Homelessness is primarily an economic problem, and is also affected by a number of political and social factors. Economic factors include the lack of affordable housing, “housing costs have risen steadily across the country, and they have skyrocketed in many areas. Further, the inability to afford housing is concentrated among households with incomes below the poverty level, whose members account for the vast majority of people entering homelessness” (Burt, 2001). The growing gap between wage earnings and the cost of housing leaves millions of families and individuals unable...
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... Every homeless person has his or her own reason why they living outside the home. There are three basic types of homelessness. The first one is Temporary, it occurs when individuals have been displaced from their homes for a time but do not stay homeless for long. This could be because of some type of damage to their home such as a fire or natural disaster. Circumstantial is the second type it occurs when a person's circumstances change and he loses his place of residence. They might have lost a job or had to spend some time...
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...Concept of Program Reengineering The case study of Mayor Schell’s Zero Homeless Family Strategy discusses the homeless problem in Seattle, Washington (King County) and the strategies used to address the problem. Mayor starts his term off with a dramatic pledge that there would be no homeless families with children or any homeless single women on the streets of Seattle by Christmas of that year (some six months from date of pledge). The pledge itself might easily be viewed as a political move to provide a “quick-fix” solution to a very complex and long-standing problem. While Mayor Schell’s policy choices in this matter had some success, they were met with scrutiny and counter proposals by homeless advocacy groups and city financial managers. This paper provides an analysis of the mayor’s policy choices, analysis of the pre-implementation and design strategies, as well as discussion of steps taken to reengineer the program. It also addresses the importance of conducting proper assessments before implementing new programs. The policy choices related to Mayor Schell’s plan to address homelessness include: targeting homeless families with children and single women for “immediate emergency assistance”; focus on creating affordable housing; expanding shelter and/or emergency housing availability; and providing more funding for homeless prevention. According to the case study, over 700 of the 1,300 homeless people sleeping on the streets were in the target population contained...
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...Homeless Persons Heather Gustafson Axia College of University of Phoenix Homeless Persons A problem that continues to grow in the United States is Homeless people. Millions of people are homeless due to a variety of circumstances and the number still grows daily. History In the United States, de-institutionalization of the mentally ill -- unaccompanied by promised outpatient psychiatric and social services -- led to a large increase in the homeless, mentally ill population in the late 1970s. The number of homeless grew in the 1980s, as housing and social service cuts increased. This was in part a consequence of the transfer of federal dollars to a huge military buildup (including the spectacularly wasteful and unsuccessful "Star Wars" strategic missile defense initiative) and consequent large budget deficits. Fortunately, public compassion soared, and in 1986, 5 million Americans joined hands across the country to raise money for homeless programs (May 25, 1986 Hands Across America). In 1987, the McKinney Act authorized millions of dollars for housing and hunger relief (Donahue, 2007). Nature and Issues of Social Problems Homeless and poverty go together. People are unable to pay for food, clothing, shelter, child care, health care, and education. Choices have to be made to have what they need for their daily life so they have to put other things behind to cover necessities. Domestic violence leads people to become homeless because they are...
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...One of the public health issues in my community, is homelessness. This is a problem for many communities throughout the country, but I see it on a regular basis in the Raleigh, North Carolina communities. There is currently a health crisis visible on the streets of our communities. There are homeless, men, women and children living in unbelievable conditions. Many of these people are suffering from a multitude of health issues. America seems to have completely forgotten about these individuals, failing to stop a think about what elements of their life ultimately landed them homeless. Homelessness is not just a health concern for the individuals involved it also poses health risk to the community as a whole. First, the homeless are without access to running water, this poses several health concerns such as; where is their human waste going without proper facilities? Additional environmental concerns include; encampments, litter, run-off, disease and drug waste....
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...Launch MKT/571 June 3, 2011 Product Launch Plan Raven’s Outreach Center is a homeless shelter for male veterans the center is in need of a new product launch that will increase awareness about the homeless veterans in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. Team E has created a plan outlining the services that Raven’s Outreach Center currently offers along with the new services that can be implemented within the business. The plan below also discusses the challenges that Ravens currently faces and the ways to mitigate challenges into opportunities of growth for the organization. Raven’s Outreach Center is a large nonprofit homeless shelter for homeless male veterans in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Raven’s Outreach Center has provided over 10 years of compassionate and empowering support to homeless male veterans in the capital area through outreach and advocacy services. Ravens serve veterans from areas across the world. Each race, including white, black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic men. There is a major correlation between homeless and personal economic instability. Drugs have been identified as a primary cause of homeless veterans. Economic dependence often keeps men trapped in environments not meant for habitation. There is a high-demand on the market for the services Ravens Outreach Center provides because of high homeless rate within the male veterans. Ravens are a homeless shelter center certified to present a safe and sound environment with a maximum of 52 beds....
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...board, I feel it is important to address some of the issues brought forth by a few members of the board. I am in support of having a shelter built for the homeless, predominately mothers and children of the underserved population. Times are tough right now and at any given moment any one of us may be only one humiliating step away from homelessness. A job loss, serious illness or any other everyday occurrence of life could cause us all to be on the streets. The concept that the working poor are lazy, did not earn high school degrees, are not using birth control, and lack responsibility for their actions is uninformed thinking. These stereotypes hinder us looking at the big picture. Every day we walk past people in the streets who do not fit the stereotype of homelessness (Voices, 2014). There are people who you admire like Cary Grant, David Letterman, Daniel Craig, Sylvester Stallone, Ben Franklin, Tyler Perry, and Samuel L. Jackson, Col. Harland Sanders, of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, who were all homeless(Voices, 2014). William Shatner, who after Star Trek was cancelled in 1970, lived out of his truck for a while working in summer stock plays across the country. These people made great contributions to society. You don’t know what contributions others may be capable of making in the future if it weren’t for homeless shelters. Our country has been funding other world governments for decades. It is time we put money back into our society and become the power we once were...
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...here, a homeless man like Chris Gardner could become a millionaire. Yet when one walks down the streets of a city, it seems that this amazing story is, rather, an extremely rare occurrence. This idea set with the backdrop of a picture perfect suburb can perhaps hold true. However, when it is juxtaposed with makeshift homes made of tents and a couple of personal belongings, this promise seems nothing but shallow. There are many homeless individuals, and now a growing number of families, living on our streets, and their future is bleak. This is a terrible reflection of a country that has so great to offer so something must be done to try to solve this issue. In Detroit, through services like transition homes and shelters, Detroit Rescue Missions Ministries, though not perfect, is doing an efficient job dealing with homelessness. To understand the impact Detroit Rescue Missions Ministries (DRMM) has had, it is important to understand homelessness and its causes. There are “643,067 people experiencing homelessness on any given night” in this country and 37% are families (End Homelessness). Homelessness is caused by poverty and the inability to afford housing. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) “calculates that a family with one full-time, minimum-wage worker can't afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country” (Katel). Poverty is another issue, especially in Detroit. Due to the foreclosure crisis and high unemployment rate “first-time homeless citizens...
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...Problem: How should Pine Street Inn Director Lyndia Downie proceed to persuade the Board of Directors and staff to change their long term organizational strategy? Background: Boston Pine Street Inn has come up against a funding issue forcing Director Lyndia Downie to make a change to the Boston Pine Street Inn. Boston Pine Street Inn is a homeless shelter that is made up of five facilities with 715 beds. 450 of the beds are standard emergency shelter beds and the rest “transitional” beds (Varley, 2013). It also managed 280 units of lightly staffed housing. With a budget of $27.5 Million, roughly 46% of it going toward emergency shelter beds and 16% to permanent housing, Pine street served 15,00 homeless people a day and 12,00 annually (Varley, 2013). Funding began to decline in the early 2000’s (Varley, 2013). In 2004 Pine Streets revenue fell from $29.6 million to $26.9 million. This led Director Downie and the Board of Directors to commission 2 studies to help find an answer to help balance the budget and use the funding wisely and efficiently. The studies commissioned were a Length of Stay Study and a Cost benefit analysis study. The studies showed great insight to where money was being spent and where resources were being allocated. The cost benefit analysis study showed that they had two programs, the Nursing Clinic and the Clothing program, were programs that could be outsourced and save Boston Pine Street Inn $1 million. The Nurse Clinic cut was not taken lightly...
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...Pine Street Inn Case Analysis Angelo Alarcon University of the Incarnate Word Problem Statement Pine Street Inn had a stable business model that allowed it to stay in business serving the local homeless community for many years. In 2004, Pine Street suffered a three million dollar declined in their operating budget. Director Lyndia Downie and Pine Street Board of Directors commissioned a study that sought to cut one million dollars in spending and reassess the long-term strategy of Pine Street. As a result from the study the decision was made to outsource the nursing and clothing program but now Director Downie and Board of Directors must decide what would be the best long-term strategy for Pine Inn. Analysis The main reason for the budget decline was the overcrowding of guest due to the strong belief that no one was ever turned away, although other community shelters did. No matter what the situation or circumstance no one was questioned or encourage to find other alternatives. In order to make a one million dollar cut in the budget, the decision was made to outsource the nursing program. This new plan was received with skepticism as the nursing staff felt that they knew their patients due to their unorthodox approach to medicine. Another medical staff would not be able to provide the same level of care for their guest. Another program that needed to be outsourced was their clothing operations. Guest could pick any article of clothing for free and could return...
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...Rates of homelessness in New York City are growing, especially among families, as are lengths of stay in homeless shelters. Many factors contribute to these trends, including the financial Instability of these residents. This explains the strategy to assist Income-earning families living in homeless shelters to build savings to support their move out of shelter and ultimately their long-term financial stability. Income-earning shelter residents’ ability to build savings to support their money before they move out of shelter. Families working to move out of shelter encounter multiple barriers: limited and unstable income; uncertainty about their ability to live within a budget, negative credit and debt histories that hinder their prospects with future landlords; and being un- or underbanked....
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...MARKETING PLAN COMPANY OVERVIEW Owner(s): Alan J Klingensmith Company Name: Recycled Chances Product Name: Non-Profit Location: Oviedo, Florida History (yrs.): 1 SECTION 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The five-year marketing plan for Recycled Chances has been developed by its original founders to secure additional funding for growth and to inform supporters of the company’s current status and direction. Although Recycled Chances has only been recently launched, Recycled Chances has experienced greater-than-anticipated support. Recycled Chances plans to explore online fundraising opportunities. Over the next five years Recycled Chances can increase its recognition and win new supporters. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Recycled Chances was founded by a husband and wife team, Alan and Heidi Klingensmith. Alan is a Marine Corps veteran and has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management. Heidi has worked as a human resource director for over eight years. As a family they decided they wanted to start making the world a better place. Recycled Chances reflects the passion they both share in recycling for the environment benefits and wanting to help those less fortunate. They believe that with the added support, a person can successfully turn their life around. Recycled Chances builds all their housing and community buildings out of used water bottles, dirt and other recycled goods. This allows Recycled Chances to keep needs for financial expenses down and encourage people to support...
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