...Social Program: Homeless Antone N. Green HSM/240 PUBLIC POLICY 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...
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...The world of the homeless appears to be exceptionally far from yours yet in a few ways its actually quiet close. The loss of a family member or job or even a severe physical disability could be the route to despair for anyone. These are the very tragedies that happened to many homeless people. Struck by these horrible events, the people in shelters all over America have lost their homes and were disowned by their family and friends. There are many ways to help out even the tiniest gesture can go a long way. Be sure to respect the homeless as individuals. Rather than trying to ignore them or dismiss them respond with kindness, try a kind word such as a simple good morning or a smile. Treat them as you wish to be treated if you needed assistance....
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...the people living there. They lived in grass huts and survived off the lands and an average income of two hundred dollars a year. Although the people did not have much they sustained themselves and helped sustain the others around them. Those who needed help in the village received help no matter what, due to the spiritual desire of the native people. One day Soderstrom brought up the idea of homelessness, and showed the people a picture of two homeless men. Their reaction to the picture was pure confusion, and they immediately wanted to help. The solution the people came up with was to bring the two homeless men to the village, where they would take care of them. They would build them grass huts and plant gardens for them to sustain themselves with. The people in this village lack material wealth but can make up for this with their spiritual wealth. Soderstrom believes that America...
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...the safety net is the homeless population. These individuals may consist of runaway children, battered women, long-term alcoholics, addicted veterans, individuals lacking job skills, former mental health hospital inmates, criminals, or fugitives running from the law. This group is often forgotten because they are unaware of the programs that are designed to help them or they are not eligible for basic services based on the criteria from the agency. They are left to depend on handouts from passerby and meals provided by the soup kitchen or shelter (Burger, 2008). This learner has been working as a mental health case manager for over three years. This learner lives about two blocks from a homeless shelter and a soup kitchen, which breaks her heart to pass everyday on the way home. This learner has observed the stigma and unfairness associated with the homeless population. From this learner’s work knowledge the single adult homeless population suffers from some form of severe and persistent mental illness. Psychological disorders have a propensity to prevent some individuals from carrying out indispensable aspects of every day life such as self-care, household management and interpersonal relationships. The relevance of this group's needs to the field of human service is that human service professionals can provide specific assistance to this group such shelter, food, counseling, rehabilitation and job skills programs. Emergency shelters offer immediate food and shelter. Human...
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...Paper (Soup Kitchen) Empowering the Homeless P### F##### Soci. 200-B09 Empowering the homeless Life is an expedition barred by obstacles that one must overcome to achieve personal goals and achievements. In doing so, he interacts with people of different ethnicities, cultures and social plights. His experience brings him to opposing extremes that mould and transform his primary targets to accommodate social responsibilities and seek to improve plights of various populations that promote mutual interactions beyond any divisions, segregations, non-recognition or neglect. A visit to a special school for physically and mentally challenged as well as orphaned children of these challenges sparked a desire to strife for those that cannot attend to their basic needs in bid to build an environment conducive for everyone. Observations done during the experience The activity commenced in the morning and involved walking about a mile to an soup kitchen. Such a trek suits a sunny morning but the day begun with rain that would not cease even at 1:00 Pm, two hours late of the scheduled time. I would have taken a car but the decision to walk stemmed from the fact that I was on a charitable visit and had swore to walk and think of the homeless I was...
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...like to thank each and every individual to night for supporting my dream on diminishing the amount of homeless people in the world. Now that we have change the amount of our fellow americans in the streets begging for food but i want to introduce a topic that ties into being homeless. This topic is the amount of people who go without eating everyday. I understand this will not be intractable process. I understand it will take time but if we can just take a little consideration for those who are not blessed with others may have and make their day by giving them a dollar or two. Sometimes people go through things others might not or don’t understand. People don't choose when they next meal is. In fact most people who don’t have enough food aren't just naive or disabled. In fact , studies show that those who go without a meal twenty percent of the time are children . It necessarily doesn't have to be money. It can be things such as old canned goods that we may not want or be using but don’t get me wrong money helps just as much as food....
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...are devoted to providing new opportunities for homeless and low-income persons. Fresh Start, a company started by Andrew A. Smith alleviates the pains and ills of those who are homeless. Fresh Start assists homeless and low-income persons through seminars, and life skills. Seminars included topics such as investment, financial management/advisement, job training, interview skills, and appropriate business attire. Life skills’ training includes Stress Management, Supporting a Family on Low-Income, Family Budgeting on Low-Income, and personal/business relationship development. Independent and family counseling, school clothes, and business attire is also provided. Financial programs aide Fresh Start participants in becoming financially independent of the organization. Each member in the Fresh Start program will be provided with shelter, a mentor, and a bank account. The Fresh Start bank account will provide participants with a way to save money and become economically responsible. Each fresh start mentor will withhold 5% of their mentee’s check in a savings account; the funds in the mentee’s account will be given to the mentee at the end of the session. The goal of the financial assistant segment is to allow participants to start their financial independence directly after the program. Industry Analysis Fresh Start is a nonprofit organization that provides transitional housing for those with low income and homeless. Fresh...
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...change in outlook, unbeknownst to me two short years ago, would all be sparked by a single fortune cookie. And a man who wanted to give back. And a soup kitchen. Let me explain; my realization to give back to my community was placed upon me in the winter of my seventh grade school year. In a few measly months, I would be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah, a tradition of my family for generations....
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...First Potomac Realty Trust is a self-managed real estate investment trust. They are one of the leading owners of commercial real estate in the Washington, D.C region. The company focuses on owning, operating, developing and redeveloping commercial real estate. The corporate headquarters of the company is located in Bethesda, Maryland (First Potomac Realty Trust, 2015). First Potomac Realty Trust strives to create lasting partnerships with their tenants, maintain their reputation as trustworthy landlords and to provide their shareholders with profitable returns on their investments. They are known to be an ethical and trustworthy organization and are committed to long-term partnerships with their tenants and brokers. They are also a publicly traded company and have a concentrated portfolio in the Washington, D.C. area (First Potomac Realty Trust, 2015). Energy and sustainability are the center of First Potomac Realty Trust’s corporate social responsibility initiatives. Their decisions are geared to meet social and environmental standards in a positive way (Tesia Vargason, personal communication, April 1, 2015). With the purchases of properties in the DC Metro area, they are frequently improving their buildings to meet LEED or Energy Star standards, which creates better efficiency for lighting and heat and the environment simultaneously. They believe that this approach creates the best value for tenants of the buildings and employees (Tesia Vargason, personal communication...
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...There I was, walking through the city streets of Chicago. So much to see, so much to do, and so much stuff to buy! While I was walking, I saw an ill man, holding up a cardboard sign, and asking for spare change. I just walked past him because I didn’t want to grab his attention. Many other people did the same thing. I definitely felt like a bystander. Then I saw another, asking for food. Then another, and another, and more after that. I started counting. I think I counted over 15. It was definitely a depressing sight to see. I also saw many helpless people on my family’s trip to San Francisco and to Niagara Falls. I saw some fighting, too. The injustice of homelessness is a big issue and it is a problem we should be looking into more often....
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...helps feed over two hundred and sixty thousand people. Most of these people that they serve are children’s and seniors. There is a diversity of people that they help. They serve to about sixty-six percent to white, twenty-two percent are black and six percent are Latino. Not only do they deal with people with different race but also help many people that have low wages or unemployment. There is seventy percent of the people that are served that are living or under the 100% line for poverty and more than half of the people they serve food to make less than ten thousand dollars for them annul income....
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...“Informational Essay on Food Pantries” Information Essay On Food Pantries Have you ever worried about where your next meal was going to come from? According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “The number of homeless in Ohio is on the rise” (The Regional Food Bank of Ohio is a food pantry where anyone has a special concern for the poor, elderly, lonely, homeless, and hungry. It is a place where people from all walks of life can come together to share a hot meal and visit and enjoy each other’s company. Figure 1 Figure 2 Increase in poverty percentage in Ohio Poverty Percentage by State Hunger has affected millions of families across the United States. Many economic issues are the Cause of poverty, the use of food pantries and soup kitchens, and the disbursement of food stamps. The number of people that would receive food from a food pantry went from 250-300 all the way up to 2500-3000; this big of an increase had been related to the recession (Greenburg, Michael. American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol.100 issue 11, p2021-2022.) Low-paying jobs are sending men and women home with only enough money on their paychecks to be able to pay rent. Due to the increasing rate of people coming into food pantries, the amount of food that the federal and state government was able to supply had to be dropped by 2/3’s due to budget...
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...As the world hungers for the love and presence of God there are people that are homeless and hungry. I take drives in the early morning on the weekends frequently into downtown Denver in Colorado where I live and I see our streets crowded with homeless people. As I drive I observe many sitting on the ground in the cold weather, their clothes are ripped and dirty. Beside them is either a grocery cart full of items that they have collected from the trash or bags packed with clothes, food, and other items that they have collected from the homeless shelters or the trashcan that they rummaged through to eat to survive. I noticed some just sit there with a blank stare on their faces wondering off into the distance with their mind. Some are trading the collectibles that to them are of...
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...The Homeless Samantha bates BSHS 442 February 12th, 2012 Mary Beth Bova The homeless are just as important as all other individuals in life and advocacy agency’s are there to help those who are in need. The biggest hit in such a situation are women and children who have no were to turn and end up on the street. Women who have become homeless are either getting out of a bad marriage was there was physical abuse. And in other case the women are not well educated and cannot hold a job after getting divorced. The sad position many of these women have is that the children will become homeless to and be forced to live on the streets. There are some individuals who become homeless due to mental illness because live situations have put them in that position, not been able to hold down a job or function in life. In many cities there are shelters were the homeless can go and get some assistance, for example a meal and place to sleep for the night. In some situation the families will not go to a shelter in the fear that his or her positions will be stolen. In the homeless shelters they should have a safer program making it safer. Young teenage mothers are also at times forced to live on the street due to the parents not wanting to help her raise a child. This could be due to the family not having the funding or ability to raise another child and the baby’s father is not in the picture. There are many individuals who become homeless for other reasons and they might never be able...
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...Step 1 Our purpose is to help the homeless in the GTA and Toronto, by providing a food service, and a welcoming and comforting home for those in need of help. * We will be providing a food service that provides a breakfast and dinner, from a complimentary chef. Breakfast will consist of a cup of coffee, milk, orange juice, eggs, toast and bacon. Dinner may vary on particular days: spaghetti with meatballs, vegetarian or meat lasagna, or rice and stew. Dinner will also come with a complementary soda or water and a bun. * We will also be providing a homing service which includes several beds (first come, first serve) that will home the people in need whom don’t have a place to stay for the night. We will be providing a bed, with a blanket, pillow. We will be able to home about 50-60 people per night. People staying for the night may also take a shower/wash-up in our complementary shower rooms, and will also be provided clothing and daily necessities such as a toothbrush, tooth paste, razor, deodorant, etc. Step 2 Workers * Volunteers, cooks, supervisor and manager * Willing to help the homeless and needy * Mannerly (respectful, initiative, helpful) * Great communication skills, and right speaking ability to help the customers * Caring and willing to help others Money * $1 million, at least to start off (buy building, furniture, cooking equipment, and supplies) * 4000 a month, from charities or funds that are willing to provide. ...
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