...For: Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness 44 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003 Provided By: Personnel Fusion Consultants Table of Contents ICPH Background: The Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness is an independent nonprofit organization that was founded in New York City in 1990. The organization was formed after the late 1980’s when family homelessness rates was increasing in the United States. (ICPH) is a research and development organization that studies the motives of family homelessness and as well, develops data to inform and help enhance public policy for family homelessness. During their past 25 years of service, the Institute of Children, Poverty and Homelessness has been committed to advance statistics as they believe this data is what interests the public and political provision to help with homeless families. Their mission is to study the impact of poverty on family and child well-being and to generate research that will enhance public policies and programs affecting poor and homeless children and their families. ICPH examines the condition of extreme poverty in the United States and its effect on educational attainment, housing, employment, child welfare, domestic violence and family wellness. They also work on raising awareness of homelessness through publications and other materials for...
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...differently toward an individual who appears exactly like them versus an individual who may appear differently than they are. The environment we find ourselves in has a highly hypnotic effect on us. The environment has a tendency to establish and influence our thoughts and our ideals about people and society. As a multicultural society there needs to be awareness that what we see in our environment can play a role in what we manifest. Someone who lives in a part of town that sees poverty and crime everyday is going to have a harder time manifesting abundance than someone who already lives it everyday. To prove this point an individual first must decide on the environment they would like to explore. A good activity to investigate would be “Homelessness.” The common perception of a homeless person is an older man with a drinking or drug problem who sleeps in an inner-city park or street. This would require not only spending time with the homeless, but also pretending to be homeless. The objective is to understand people’s perceptions and attitudes toward those who are different than themselves, but also to know why we perceive things the way we do. To further understand this phenomenon it was important to determine the location of the homeless, and become one of them through a transformation from the clothing worn and the appearance of joblessness with no monetary means to support ones self. The location was in Greenville, SC at a local shopping mall not to far from downtown area. This...
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...DEVELOPMENT IN HUMAN SERVICES April 19, 2015 Introduction: Homelessness has become a national issue. “At a point in time in January 2012, 633,782 people were experiencing homelessness. The national rate of homelessness was 20 homeless people per 10,000 people in the general population. The rate for Veterans was 29 homeless Veterans per 10,000 Veterans in the general population” (N.A.E.H, 2013). Due to the lack of affordable housing has resulted in vast and growing homelessness among individuals and families. Homelessness is not only a type of poverty but also a severe state of residential instability. Homelessness is increased by behavioral problems, alteration of mental health rule, differences in health and health care, racial disparities, substance abuse, domestic violence, variation in affordable housing, and lack of social support. Thesis Statement: The deficiency of affordable housing has resulted in widespread homelessness and has become a national problem The" Mission for the National Homeless" has decided to combat homelessness by providing food, shelter and other benefits and services to the homeless people. We will focus on providing housing, food distribution to fight hunger, educational, vocational and other services. We intend to fund our programs through private donations as well as federal and state funding. Problem: “Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines homelessness as those individuals whose main nighttime residence is in private...
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...the rest were found in unsheltered locations” (Henry, Cortes and Shivji). American author John Grisham wrote “Somewhere for Everyone” a story that depicts that homelessness is more of an inconvenience rather than exploring the underlying issue on how to eradicate the subject on hand. The same can be said about abandoned children. Jessica Valenti clearly explains in “Not Wanting Kids is Entirely...
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...training in the culture-centered approach to gain, “accurate assessment, meaningful understanding, and appropriate intervention” (p. 11). A variety of factors can affect the understanding of a culturally diverse individual, such as homelessness, sexual harassment, and racism. Through an understanding of those three sociopolitical factors, psychologists and therapists can see the impact of these factors on psychological development, behavior, and distress. As a result, practices may be put in place to help minimize potentially harmful consequences. Homelessness Approximately two and a half million people are homeless and 30-50% of this group consists of families with children (Pedersen & Locke, 1999). According to Pederson and Locke (1999), homeless is defined if an individual meets one of the following criteria: • Inability to secure regular and stable housing • Primary residence is a public or private shelter • Occupying a place not designated for housing (p. 90). The homeless population accounts for 50% African American, 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Native American, and 1% Asian (Almanac of Policy Issues, 2000). Reasons for homelessness can include poverty, unemployment, and the lack of job skills (Pederson & Locke, 1999). Homelessness creates the inability to develop a secure environment in which an individual may return to at the end of each day. Individuals...
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...The Importance of Thinking Critically and Creatively Active shooting and violence in the workplace can happen anywhere and anytime and the employer takes critical and sometimes creative action to resolve the situation. According to the FBI report entitled “Workplace Violence-Issues in Response” employers are legally obligated to provide a safe work environment that protects the safety and security of all employees whether civilian or military. This obligation is currently reinforced by both OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) and the Department of Civil Rights. Many active shooters have behavioral and mental health issues that remain undiagnosed and untreated. The compelling argument is whether violence in the workplace is preventable. Four people were killed and sixteen more were injured on April 2, 2014 when an active shooter opened fire at Fort Hood. The sprawling Army post in Texas was still on edge after a mass shooting there left 13 dead on November 5, 2009. Each time, the active shooters were diagnosed after the fact as having had prior mental conditions. A more proactive approach to recognizing and diagnosing PTSD could greatly minimize the number of active shootings on military installations. Early detection of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) could dramatically minimize the number of active shooter incidents throughout military installations. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a diagnosis that is fully accepted by the U.S. Veterans Administration...
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...Fannie Mae Management Planning Planning is a management function necessary for the success of any organization. Organizational planning has to include internal and external environments, evaluation of the marketplace, identifying, and analyzing factors that influence planning. Fannie Mae is an organization with a competitive edge in the housing marketplace. Fannie Mae accomplished this through effective planning. Overview of Fannie Mae Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the UNITED STATES housing and mortgage markets. Fannie Mae operates in the UNITED STATES secondary mortgage market. Rather than making home loans directly to consumers, Fannie Mae work with mortgage bankers, brokers and other primary mortgage market partners to help ensure they have funds to lend to home buyers at affordable rates. Fannie Mae fund mortgage investments primarily by issuing debt securities in the domestic and international capital markets. Fannie Mae has three lines of business-Single-Family, Housing and Community Development and Capital Markets-that provides services and products to lenders and a broad range of housing partners. Together, these business contribute to the company’s chartered mission to increase the amount of funds available to make homeownership and rental housing more available and affordable (Fannie Mae, 2010). Management Planning Function The planning...
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...The Client Paper Carmen Canjura BSHS/305- Historical Development of Human Services: an Introduction September 28, 2015 Elissa Mattson The Client Paper The Professional of Human Services, work with different type of person. From diverse origins, various ethnic races, which are suffering different, problems in their lives? The various problems that customers face in the human services can identify as follows. Problems need development, and the needs created by some social change, and can influence environmental needs. As also several different social skills used when working with the client. Different strategies to help customers and provide better support and customer support so that problems can be solved best used. When problems occur, we realize that something is wrong and realize that this causes inconvenience to the customer. (Woodside, 2011) Human service professionals should identify where the problems come because sometimes tend to bea unemployment, inadequate housing, or disease of any kind. As has already identified the problem is to do everything possible to find the solution, helping the client to take better care of him. Development theory suggests that human development is a process of continuity and that there are certain stages in the life of the individual to be experienced. (Trotter & Stwartwood 2007) Over lifetime customers have been able to develop difficult situations such as problems, community, culture, work, weather, and even socio-political...
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...Some of the migrants get it easier if they are able to find a good employer who is willing to help them advance in life and help obtain labor contracts with unions for them. Others are not so lucky; being exposed to pesticides, making minimum wage only to have parts of their checks withheld, and again ignorance of labor laws comes to affect the amount of abuse that they put up with. Chapter five, The Daunting Workplace, expresses the terror that arises in some of the people who enter the “unfamiliar world of the workplace.” Some of these people, who have lived and survived through crack wars, homelessness and prison, get truly frightened when it comes to the work environment; a place where they have not had many opportunities because of no work experience, no education, no support, criminal records, drug addictions, and many countless others. In their old lives they had been taught that “the best defense was a threatening posture of aggression,” but now they had to change the way they looked at things in order to get a job and be able to move out with a place to call their own. Chapter six, Sins of the Fathers, starts by showing and expressing that sexual abuse affects everyone, regardless of class or race. The wealthy just have the financial means...
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...Vulnerable population in the workplace: Diabetics and the homeless Amanda Otten NUR 4800 March 29, 2015 Deanna Radford Vulnerable population in the workplace: Diabetics and the homeless Homelessness is closely associated with poor health, working in a government run facility we encounter multiple patients with this socioeconomic status. Working with the homeless population presents challenges that alone could be managed if in a more stable environment. Diabetes becomes difficult to manage when a patient has no means to handle such a complicated disease. Along with common barriers the homeless deal with stereotypes and prejudice when trying to seek out help for their health care management. Workplace Experience Being one of the major government hospital in Phoenix the majority of our clients are homeless or live below the poverty level, but this does not exclude our patients from having stereotypes placed on them and maybe even accelerates it. When asked many coworkers stated they felt many homeless returning patients with diabetes were “non-compliant and had no interest in maintain a healthy life style.” There have been multiple occurrences when I have overheard fellow nurses question the reasoning for admitting a sick homeless patients when “they don’t care, it’s just a waste of our time.” Even while conducting research, I myself have asked this very same question and came to moments of understanding. We all understand being...
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...vigilant against other colleagues with impairments. At all times, nurses have the professional duty to accept personal responsibility for their actions and are accountable for nursing judgment and action or inaction. This accountability extends to situations in which the nurse delegates duties to a colleague or subordinate. Related Reading: Personal & Professional Development For Nursing Assistants Values and Morals The nurse has a duty of self-respect and morality to herself as well as those around her, including patients. Nurses must maintain constant professional growth and commitment to lifelong learning. Ethics rules dictate that a nurse must manifest a positive wholeness of character, meaning her virtuous character extends beyond the workplace and into her personal life. Nurses are expected to be moral and express wisdom, courage and honesty. Nurses in a leadership role must provide employees an opportunity to express grievances in a positive way and create environments that foster ethical nursing practices. Community Education Nurses have an ethical duty to spread knowledge and information about health, wellness and the avoidance of disease. Nurses should advance the profession by participating in community outreach programs and civic activities related to health care. Nurses have a duty to stay abreast of national and global health concerns, outbreaks, epidemics and infectious diseases. A nurse must also stay educated about vaccines, world hunger, pollution, lack of access...
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...Classism Climate Change Cloning Colorisim Cloud Hacking Computer Hacking Corporal Punishment Corporate Downsizing Cyber Bullying (Cyberbullying) Date Rape Disaster Relief Domestic Violence Dream Act Drinking and Driving Driving While Black Drug Abuse / Drug Addiction Eating Disorders Ebola Virus Disease Embryonic Stem Cell Research Environmental Pollution Environmental Racism Equal Pay Euthanasia / Mercy Killing / Assisted Suicide Excessive Force By Law Enforcement Felony Disenfranchisement Gang Violence Gay Rights Genetic Engineering Genetically Modified Food Gentrification Global Warming Gun Control Gun Rights Hate Crimes Hazing Health Care Disparities Health Care Reform HIV / AIDS Home Forclosures Homelessness Honor Killings Human Trafficking Hunger Identify Theft Illegal Immigration Legalization of Marijuana Legalization of Prostitution Mall Shootings Mass Murder Meth Labs (Methamphetamine Laboratories) Militarization of Police Minimum Wage NRA National Rifle Association Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) Obesity Organ and Body Donation Outsourcing Jobs...
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...1- Reconstruction Plans of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson differ from the Congressional Radical Republicans Plan for how the South should be reconstructed. Which led to different courses of action in the South; The Black Codes, Johnson’s Impeachment and Radical Reconstruction (1)Black codes: is when Southern states passed this codes to chip away at blacks’ fresh won rights and ensured that they remained a supply an inexpensive, exploitable labor. Blacks were forced to sign yearly labor contracts, and if they refused they may be inactive for homelessness. This angry the Radical Republicans. In 1866 they pushed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act, which might grant blacks equal standing as whites. Johnson vetoed this bill, on the other hand...
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...THE PLACE OF DEEMED HOMELESS IN GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH OF INDIA TITLE: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND URBAN POVERTY PROGRAMS Author 1: Priyanka Bhattacharya, 1st Year, BBA.LLB(Hons) Author 2: Bharat Aseri, 2nd Year, BBA.LLB (Hons) ABOUT THE AUTHOR A girl from a metropolitan city of India, Priyanka Bhattacharya, was always in her way to be at the top. Doing her schooling from two famous schools of India, South Point High School and Gokhale Memorial Girls’ School, her capacity to write, think and dream increased and was ready to reach the top. Ups and Downs were a part and parcel of her life but hope and sincerity was her ultimate. After passing her first boards examination in class 10 her passion towards success increased because she knew in this world if one has success one is admired else are nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ. Working hard was not her part of the meal but the impulsive nature to get something and thirst of success which she always wanted to quench made her to this way. She passed her 10+2 examination with 88% of marks and being the state topper in accountancy in her WEST BENGAL BOARD OF HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMINATION, securing 98% marks out of 100. Awarded NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP by the Central Government she pursued corporate law for a better future and a better career and she is currently studying BBA.LLB in NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, ORISSA. Deprivation from all the enjoyment and happiness of the poor and homeless people touched her...
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...The COAG National Framework refers to the protection of children. The slogan “protecting children is everyone's right” ensures that children within Australia are kept nourished and safe. The COAG is invested by the government and non-government sector to protect the rights of children and their families. The purpose of COAG is to ensure children are not violated through collecting data and conducting investigations. The ‘COAG report’ found that in 2007-08 there were over 55.000 reports of child abuse and neglect within Australia. However since the report has been conducted there has been a dramatic reduce in the number of abuse and neglect cases within Australia. The COAG National Framework is effective in meeting the needs of children and protecting them as the highest priority. The child's welfare within Australia is unsuccessful in prioritising the rights and protection of children however the COAG National Framework addresses these issues and has been pushing for change in the recognition of child welfare. Furthermore, the COAG promotes a safe and welcoming environment for children to assist an early tertiary child protection program. The COAG National Framework ultimately aims to protect the most vulnerable families and children from neglect and abuse. The effectiveness of the COAG can be measured by the successful cases used through welfare benefits and assistance. For example, Holzer, Lewig, Bromfield and Arney (2008) which protects the rights of children to establish...
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