...According to Youth homelessness: A call for partnerships between Research and policy; homeless youths are defined as a group of adolescents/young adults, between the ages of 12 to 24, who live in shelters, on streets, couches or in abandoned buildings. According to Evas.com, an non-profit dedicated to the prevention of homelessness reported that there is an estimated 35,000-40,000 homeless youth in Canada, additionally - many youths that are homeless have not completed their highschool education. “Literacy rates in Canada are among the highest in the world, … however, for many homeless youth, staying in school is a difficult challenge. Studies find that 63% to 90% of homeless youth did not complete highschool, despite being the age to do so.”...
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...involving Indigenous Homelessness in Canada. In the first chapter the authors expanded our definition of homelessness but including sub-categories such as “sleeping rough”, “absolute homelessness”, “hidden homelessness” and “at risk for homelessness”. Hidden homelessness can be further expanded as to define situations of living that include “transition homes, jails, detoxification centers; living in overcrowded unstable or inadequate housing; “couch surfing”; and at risk of being [absolute] homeless. For the total homeless population in Canada, 40% are Aboriginal. In Vancouver in 2007, it was suggested that 70% of the homeless population...
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...Homelessness is an issue that many communities face, yet little research has been done on the connection between affordability challenges and relocation to the suburbs of immigrants. According to Preston et al. (2009), immigrants are at a high risk of homelessness compared to Canadian-born residents in the York Region of the Greater Toronto Area. Due to the lack of affordable housing, many immigrants struggle to achieve and maintain homeownership. Although some immigrants arrive to Canada asset-wealthy and can purchase a home upon arrival, most immigrants struggle with low income jobs to make ends meet. As reported by Preston, Li’s study (2006) concludes that over half the immigrants who had been in Canada for less than 10 years are overqualified for their jobs. In order to combat the affordability issue, some immigrants have the advantage of a large social capital. Upon arrival, immigrants will look to transitional...
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...Homelessness Do you ever take what you have for granted? Have you ever stopped to think about what you would do without the necessities you have? Most of us do not realize that we are lucky to be able to go home at night and sleep in a bed. The ugly truth is that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world that are unable to go to a home at night and sleep in a nice warm bed. What's even worse is that a lot of these people are children, and have never known what it was like to sleep in a bed without any fault of their own. Our neighbourhoods are filled with homeless children and families that deserve the simple things that we may take for granted every day. As we grow older we concern ourselves about the youth that will soon take care of what we accomplished and built to improve our lives. 33,000 Canadians are homeless on the street, 11,000 of which are youth (" Report on youth homelessness", 2012).That is a large chunk of our youth not able to experience or have the same choices as we might have had in our lives. Every person is able to improve or make a change to better this world and environment, and we especially need our youth to help us grow and make a difference in the world. We need to help get our youth off the streets and empower them that they can make a difference, and they do matter. People become homeless for many reasons; however, the most common reason is the inability to pay rent. ("Homelessness in Canada", 2012) Many people may think that people...
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...Bergen County is the most populous country in the state of New Jersey with a population of 939,151 (“Bergen County, New Jersey”). The county differs greatly from New Orleans both racially and economically. About two-thirds of its residents are white and the median household income is $85,806. Asians are the second most represented ethnicity in the county (“Bergen County, New Jersey”). It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area and the largest municipality in the county—Hackensack—has a population of 43,010 (“Population Summary – Census 2010”). Overall, Bergen County’s homeless population decreased 78% from 2007 to 2016. In 2016, the county ended veteran homelessness (Giovanny Pinto, 2016) and in March 2017, the county became the first community in the...
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...authentic Mexican cuisine,” states Norm Pickering, director of marketing, North America, for Mucho Burrito. He explains that in 2006, other than Taco Bell and a few independent restaurants, Canadian consumers had little choice when it came to Mexican food. Mucho Burrito gave Canadians a new alternative: reasonably priced, good-quality Mexican food in a fast-casual restaurant. Its mission from inception was to provide customers with unmatched Mexican flavour with the freshest and best-quality burritos—made right in front of their eyes. By 2015, Mucho Burrito had grown to over 115 franchise locations in Canada with additional locations in the U.S. The fast-food market is fiercely competitive, and today, Mexican food is one of the hottest food trends in Canada. Taco Bell is a mainstay with its inexpensive, lower-quality “Tex-Mex” food, but there are new U.S. competitors in Canada, such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Qboda, focusing on higher-quality, fast-casual Mexican fare. Various popular, local, independent establishments also exist, such as Big Fat Burrito, Burrito Boyz, and Fat Bastards. Quick-service restaurants also litter the market with short-term promotional Mexican-type products such as McDonald’s Fiesta Signature McWrap. Mucho Burrito manages the marketing mix (product, price, place, and promotion) for its restaurants to ensure it meets customer expectations and remains a leader in the Mexican fast-food category. Let’s look at its marketing mix in more detail: ...
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...Homelessness has been a problem in our society for as long as houses have existed. This will always be a problem and will unfortunately be a problem forever. There have always been people without houses and there always will be. Because of the paramount importance of balance of society and the economy, homelessness is both a good and bad thing. It is obviously awful because people aren’t living in houses, but it exceptional at the same time because without it, we would not have wealthy people. There always needs to be a balance in the economy, which includes both extremes. Homelessness is becoming an epidemic in recent times, and to stop it we should all have a broader understanding of the problem, which is mainly caused by poverty, natural disasters, and personal health reasons. The first main cause of homelessness is poverty. This issue is on a level of its own, being caused by many different factors, but for most people they either lose their job, or something else drastic happens. Because theses people do not have money, they then lose their house and have to live either on the...
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...Homelessness is one social problem that has been around for decades. I chose this topic because my church ran a home for homeless men for 10 years in Brooklyn, New York. Most people have this preconceived notion that all homeless people have mental issues and dangerous. But it amazed me over the 10 years of volunteering at the shelter and seeing these men coming and go and learning of the circumstances that cause them to become homeless. Homelessness has been and still is a social problem that has been and epidemic in our society. But with the increase in homeless, comes the challenges facing our health care facilities regarding access to health care. According to Nickasch,B.(2009) Homeless individuals expend tremendous energy on survival strategies such as obtaining food, shelter, and a place to rest (Capponi, 1997; McCormack & Gooding,1993). Only after these basic human needs have been satisfied are they able to focus on their other health issues. There are basic needs that humans need to service such as He contended that all people are born with a set of basic needs that they seek to fulfill. Once the lower needs have been gratified, then the next set of higher needs emerge and fulfillment of them is sought. Maslow described the five basic needs in his "Hierarchy of Human Needs." The first set of needs, physiological, include food, water, shelter, sex, and sleep.(Byrd & Mcneal,2006) Access to HealthCare Besides that they also have certain barriers such as access to...
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...Homelessness is like the flu which is easy to spread widely if people do not have the awareness as well as precautionary measures. It is the controversial issue that public is concerned about, and it happens in a lot of cities including Vancouver. Because this phenomenon still increases dramatically in the last few years, people need to know the reasons why the homelessness occurs so that they can solve this problem effectively. Homelessness is caused by addiction, housing crisis, and the personal problems. The most vital factor that affects an individual’s ability to thrive and respond people’s basic needs is the addiction. Baumeister and Nadal (2017) writes that the addiction is a strange phenomenon that people can not control themselves because their consciousness is defeated by the strong desires. In fact, when people get used to using drugs or alcohol regularly, their nervous systems are excited. They can not realize how much they...
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...Slade 05/04/2016 * APA Citation Norman, T., & Pauly, B. (2013). Including people who experience homelessness: A scoping review of the literature. The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 33(3), 136-151. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443331311308203 * Problem Homelessness has been associated with isolation, marginalization and social exclusion. It is well understood that those impacted by homelessness often have fewer opportunities than the general population to participate in policy processes, especially in relation to decisions that affect them. Being homeless has many health and social consequences that affect an individual's life chances and opportunities for participation in decision-making over the life course. * Review of Literature Principles of inclusion in policy development have emerged in discourses on disability, the mental health consumer movement, and have begun to inform discussions of drug use. Without the voices and participation of those impacted by homelessness, there is a risk that important understandings essential to the development of effective solutions to homelessness will remain obscured. A search of peer reviewed and grey literature to generate recommendations for the development of guidelines for social inclusion of those impacted by homelessness as part of a community-based response to ending homelessness in effort to answer, how to foster social inclusion in programs and policy between housed and unhoused people...
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...Canada is a nation of opportunity and freedom. People from all around the world immigrate to Canada to start a new life, to get away from war or poverty. But how about those who were here from the very beginning, before anyone else landed in Canada; the ones that are called First Nation people, or Aboriginals? What is the government doing for them? Why are First Nations people suffering the worst in Canada? The first nations have been oppressed by the Canadian society and continue to live under racism resulting in gender/ class oppression. “55.6% of the poor are aboriginals and a lot of them live in reserves around Canada that Canadian government have put them in. Even Though we have signed a treaty to show constitutional and moral basis...
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...A successful narrative requires the creation and development of characters. In The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, the term character can be defined as any entities involved in the action that have agency (Abbott, page 230). Characters are present in some of the most popular narratives of organizations. Olympic athlete Clara Hughes has become a character within Bell and Bell’s Let’s Talk campaigns, Don Cherry has become a character within CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada, and the late Steve Jobs has and continues to be a character tied to the Apple organization. Raising the Roof has relied on creating and building characters to help establish their narrative, and build upon their relationship with their audiences. The Raising the Roof YouTube...
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...Homeless Youth General Education Capstone October 14, 2013 Homeless Youth Homelessness affects many youth today; 46% runaway because they express their gender identity, and or sexual identity because their family rejects them, 43% are kicked out by parents also known as thrown away. Youth also take more things literally then adults, so they feel misunderstood especially when they are opening up about their sexual lifestyle. Homelessness in youth is worldwide and needs a world wide solution. Just to name a few countries that have issues with youth and homelessness; Russia’s homeless population has decreased some since the 1990’s but according to Anna Rudnicki the totals are still around 3,000 – 10,000 homeless street kids. (2013). In Australia the homeless youth rate is “estimates that 50,000 Australians under the age of 24 years are homeless with numbers increasing” With numbers increasing Australia needs to find a situation that will help lower their numbers and help get these teens off the street, Since health issues can become an issue. Another area with a heavy population of homeless youth is in Canada. Every day in Canada you can find homeless kids. “Canada, on any given day it is estimated that there are 150,000 homeless youths on the streets” (Rogers, 2012). Rogers’s states that this is an estimate since most homeless youth do tend to avoid shelters. With every country and every town we can find a teen that is homeless, while being homeless the can become sick, and...
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...Ending Homelessness Even though there are millions of Americans who sleep under a roof every night, as many as 500,000 people sleep on the streets in the United States (Semuels 1). Clearly, homelessness is an issue, not only on the national scale, but also globally. As a first step to ending homelessness, we should reach out to homeless individuals through our law enforcement and provide aid to them, if they want it. Several debates are made towards homelessness, but there are two general opinions about homelessness. First, many people assert that to end homelessness, all homeless individuals should be helped. How, exactly, these people are helped stands undefined, as there are many different ideas of this. However, this notion of helping the...
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...Introduction In my final paper I will be discussing the health inequality in the social stratification in Canada and how our socioeconomic status can affect our health to be good or poor. Our health is determined by society and what level of power, authority and accomplishment that people achieve in the social hierarchy. In my essay I will be addressing and comparing the health inequalities people in different scale in the social economic face when it comes to income, education, housing, transportation, employment and health service. These are just the few things that effect our ability of achieve good health. I will also explain how race and immigrants can also determines inequalities, when it comes to their health, especially people of color...
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