...Homelessness in America Homelessness in America has always been an issue but it has become an even bigger issue over the past years. With a world filled with global conflict, disappearing jobs, higher education cost, and increasing poverty in America, the homeless need our help more than ever. Just last year, the national poverty rate rose to include 13.2 % of the population. Also, 3.5 million people were forced to sleep in parks, shelters, under bridges or in cars. Hunger and homelessness are increasing epidemics plaguing the United States. Because of the high cost of living, high unemployment rates, and low-wage jobs, countless Americans are forced to choose between food, housing, and other expenses. According to recent studies, money is being devoted to rent and utilities rather than food. 35% of the homeless population is families with children, 23% are U.S. military veterans, 25% are children under the age of 18, 20-25% suffers from mental illness and 30% have experienced domestic violence. 19.3 % of homeless people live in New York City and Los Angeles. New York City has been shown to have the highest number of homeless people in the country. The next biggest is Loss Angeles and then Seattle/King County Washington. As a result of doing nothing for the homeless, more people will become homeless. That means, more people sleeping on the streets, dying from hunger, and possibly an even higher crime rate. Economic factors play a huge role in the issue of homelessness. The...
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...The following essay will argue that Western Australia should introduce specialist courts to address social issues such as homelessness. In the current modern society, there are more social issues and problems that the courts have to deal with, and introducing specialist courts can help lower the number of cases that mainstream courts resolve. Specialist courts for homelessness would also mean that judges and magistrates could specialise in resolving such disputes, in a manner which is more appropriate and takes into account the persons involved. By analysing The Vagrants, Gaming & Other Offences Act 1931 and other academic articles, it will be shown the current court system doesn’t adequately punish homeless persons in a way which considers all of the facets of their life. In Queensland, the Vagrants, Gaming & Other Offences Act 1931 has come under scrutiny for it being “archaic and ill-adapted to our modern society”1. 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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...Community health planning is a deliberate effort to involve the members of a geographically defined community in an open public process designed to improve the availability, accessibility, and quality of healthcare services in their community as a means toward improving its health status. The ultimate goal of a community health assessment is to develop strategies to address the community's health needs and identified issues. The homeless are a rising population and a social problem in the United States. Without a stable residence, financial constancy, or social networks, such as family, friends, and any public assistance, people discover themselves astounded and exiled as the difference between the rich and poor rises. Geographic Community...
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...GAC008 Assessment event 4: Academic Research Essay ESSAY TOPIC | Reducing homelessness | Process | | | | | Student’s Name: Vu Thu Uyen Student ID: KKPS17379 Teacher: Ed Wade Due Date: 3 March 2015 World Count: 1033 There are about 100 million homeless people in the world (Homelessness around the world,2011). Homelessness is a condition where people don’t own a house or have a permanent residence due to inability to provide or pay for or maintain a home. So they often stay and sleep on the streets or homeless shelters. The definition of homelessness varies depending on the country. However it is not simply a result of poor economic situations in the country but other factors such as poverty, crime, domestic violence, and mental health issues as well. To make matters worse, not much has been done to lower the homeless population in Vietnam. However, there are still some positive possible solutions can be done to help homeless people. The homeless situation in Vietnam is becoming more serious because a lot of various complex reasons. While many people have a life of luxury, they have food,house and family, there are many people out there experiencing the cold weather and have no place to sleep. That is the extremely opposite circumstances of the present life. The government should invest more in social housing for the low-income or poor people. This is one way to help people have more stable and productive lives. The government can...
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...In this essay, I [avoid personal pronouns in academic writing] would like to put on the Agenda the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ so as to bring awareness on the impact of this condition on the individual, families and the wider community. I analyse the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ by using existing evidence anecdotal evidence through studies on the impact and consequences this issue at micro and macro level. Further I will demonstrate the associated current social policies around this problem by incorporating a combination of techniques with the aim of advocating for better supports and systems. My overall aim is to bring about a change, in particular around three goals. These goals are inclusive of Social Policy review, multi-agency approach and trans-disciplinary delivery, funding request from the State Government in particular Families and Communities Services (FACs) and Mental Health in order to work with families in a person [spelling error] cent[e]red, strength based manner to ensure sustainable results. I incorporate Jansson’s steps of, diagnosing the context to identify contextual constraints and opportunities, softening the context to make it more amenable to a specific policy initiative and lastly activating change to get a decision maker or legislator to put an issue on the agenda of the other decision makers in the agency, community or legislative setting. (Jansson, 2003, pp. 148-165). Diagnosing Context What is Hoarding and Squalor In May 2013, for...
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...It is not uncommon today in china that an increasing number of people do not have a fixed home to live; we call this situation homelessness. Many Chinese are poor, stuck in low paying jobs, or are unable to afford a home. 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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...The Open Health Services and Policy Journal, 2010, 3, 53-70 53 Open Access Outreach and Engagement in Homeless Services: A Review of the Literature Jeffrey Olivet*,1, Ellen Bassuk1,2,3, Emily Elstad1, Rachael Kenney1 and Lauren Jassil1 1 2 3 Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120 Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, Canada The National Center on Family Homelessness, 181 Wells Avenue, Newton, MA 02459, USA Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA Abstract: Outreach and engagement are regarded by many who work in homeless programs as essential services. Outreach on the streets and in shelters is often the first point of contact for people who are not served by traditional sitebased services and is often the first step in engaging homeless people in services. While outreach and engagement are critical components of the response to homelessness, consensus is lacking about the nature and effectiveness of these services. The purpose of this paper is to examine what is known about outreach and engagement for people experiencing homelessness. The authors review quantitative studies that examine outcomes and augment this understanding with information from qualitative studies and non-research literature. The latter provides information about the goals of outreach, assumptions and values, staffing issues, and consumer involvement. The paper concludes with implications for practice, policy, and research. Keywords: Homeless/homelessness, outreach,...
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...2009). Students normally start abusing these substances due to peer pressure; stress accumulated in school and at home, curiosity to try out new things, and to overcome bad experiences that they have gone through. This essay mainly focuses on how substance abuse affects the health, social, academic and economical sphere of student’s lives. First and for most, ‘substance abuse’ drastically affects the health of those students who consume it. As is highlighted by NSAAC Pamphlet, substance abuse affects student’s mental and physical health. In terms of mental health, the use of drug leads to memory loss which also associates with lack of concentration and focus. Other side effects mentioned are the decrease in intelligence level and depression. In addition to that, students who take drugs find it difficult to recall what he or she have read, heard or seen. Secondly, the physical health is also drastically affected when students consume drug, their eating and sleeping habits is changed. Moreover, as stated by Miller (1998), substance abuse such as alcohol and smoking leads to high rate of diseases, disability, and death, cancer and congenital defects. Hence, from the evidence presented above, it can be strongly stated that substance abuse has destructive mental and health effects. Secondly, substance abuse...
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...2009). Students normally start abusing these substances due to peer pressure; stress accumulated in school and at home, curiosity to try out new things, and to overcome bad experiences that they have gone through. This essay mainly focuses on how substance abuse affects the health, social, academic and economical sphere of student’s lives. First and for most, ‘substance abuse’ drastically affects the health of those students who consume it. As is highlighted by NSAAC Pamphlet, substance abuse affects student’s mental and physical health. In terms of mental health, the use of drug leads to memory loss which also associates with lack of concentration and focus. Other side effects mentioned are the decrease in intelligence level and depression. In addition to that, students who take drugs find it difficult to recall what he or she have read, heard or seen. Secondly, the physical health is also drastically affected when students consume drug, their eating and sleeping habits is changed. Moreover, as stated by Miller (1998), substance abuse such as alcohol and smoking leads to high rate of diseases, disability, and death, cancer and congenital defects. Hence, from the evidence presented above, it can be strongly stated that substance abuse has destructive mental and health effects. Secondly, substance abuse...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...Ellen Biros Client Paper In this essay I will be explaining the range of problems facing human services clients today. In the human services field, we run across so many people that are down on their luck, have hit a rough patch, or are just having a hard time providing for themselves or others. It is our goal to take these clients in and take all the negative in life that they are facing and strategize, categorize, and solve whatever problems we are able to. Ultimately coming to us is the first step that they have taken to becoming self-sufficient again, whether they see that or not. And as a human services worker, you have to realize that each client coming in has their own unique needs and goals that they hope to get out of this newfound relationship, and it is our job to do whatever we can to meet these goals, even if it means referring the client elsewhere. Given all of this, I will be only briefly touching on some areas of issues that human services clients face. And to follow, I will explain some of the necessary skills that will help a human services worker progress in helping clients try and resolve these issues. Needs It is estimated that 671,000 people are homeless on any given night, and 1.2 to 2 million people experience homelessness during one year. The numbers of homeless increased in 2008 and 2009 reflecting the economic downturn (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2009) For many people their need can be as...
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...The Ignominy of Schizophrenia Al Borbs Understanding schizophrenia may be difficult because of the stigma it conveys to people connected to someone who has the disease, while those afflicted are targets of social prejudice. For those people who believe that the source is based on genetics, like a mother to child transmission, the mark of reproach may be even greater. For some strongly believe that this is caused by genetic factors while some argue that certain neurotransmitters have interplayed with some brain chemicals during the brain development like- a biological effect. There may be studies to identify this problem, but there is no true explanation as to the etiology of how this disease came about, so as to bewilder scientists and psychologists alike. One writing released mentions that this disease has garnered more than fifty thousand journals so far. Having worked in a geriatric-psych unit of our hospital for three years, I was amazed at how serious this illness really is. I began to consider that the people with this disease need a lifetime of attention. These patients, as I have learned, do not believe that they are sick, but they do self-medicate and that is the reason why they become addicted to other drugs. Although most of these patients are not violent, it is the effects of certain drugs that could make them commit heinous crimes and unforgivable acts of violence. Most of these...
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...After reading Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “The Glass Castle”, it became clear that there were many repetitive factors that shaped the Walls family’s lives. There are numerous accounts of sexual abuse, parental alcoholism, evidence of mental illness and finally poverty in the form of homelessness. For even when the children prospered the parents choose to be homeless. The question is, are these factors relative? Can it be that childhood sexual abuse can inflict mental illness or alcoholism in adulthood? Does mental illness and alcoholism affect the chances of being homeless? The focus of this essay is to provide evidence that the events in Walls own life, documented in her memoir, have a butterfly effect in the outcome of their parent’s lives. In Her memoir Walls documents several cases of sexual abuse during her and her sibling’s childhood. She writes of her own experiences with Billy Deel, although he is only a minor as well, he sexually assaults her during a game of hide and seek. PAGE 85-87 Afterward Jeanette was reluctant to tell her father, “I had a feeling it would cause problems” (Walls 87) The second assault Walls documents, was when she was nine years old. “I was awakened by someone running his hands over my private parts.” “‘I just want to play a game with you’ a man’s voice said.” The next day when they told their father, “he said he was going to kill that low life…” Although, no serious action was taken to find him or prevent it from happening again. (Walls...
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...COMMUNITY AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY | ASSIGNMENT 1 | | | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Outline of community psychology and public health approaches. 2 2. Similarities and strengths of (CP) and (PH) 3 3. Differences and weaknesses of (CP) and (PH) 4 4. Conclusions 4 Critically compare and contrast the Community Psychology and Public Health approaches to social problems. OUTLINE OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH The identification of the limitations of mainstream, curative individual therapy (Seedat, Cloete & Shochet, 2002: p. 221) and recognising the need for further community development, social policy and planning; many South African psychologists just as the Americans did in 1960 turned to Community Psychology (CP) during the eighties, to help relieve the sense of powerlessness and anxiety experienced during the political upheaval (Tutorial Letter 102, 2009: p. 5). CP was acknowledged as a separate discipline in 1965 in Swampscott Massachusetts, with its initial focus on social and cultural influences on mental health. It has since then expanded to explore ecological issues that go beyond the individual level. CP investigates the importance of diversity, questions one-dimensional measures of health and validates psychologists as instruments for social change (http://www.answers.com/topic/community-psychology). CP has four models, of which only two, namely Mental Health and Social Action will be of concern in this essay as they...
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