Homelessness Reflection Paper

The Mirror (A reflection of self): This paper explores the characteristics and causes of homeless individual and families with children and I will also like to reflect and share some of the remarkable things I learned during community assessment to a homeless shelter. I had the opportunity to visit Grassroots crisis intervention center. This center operates the only general emergency shelter in Howard County at 6700 Freetown Road in Columbia, MD. The program has 33 beds for families and single adult women experiencing a shelter crisis. I learned so much about the difficulty of homelessness as community problem. I have been extremely inspired by the many people I have met in Grassroots day resource center who are dedicated to making a change in their community.
It’s very interesting how life sometimes directs you in a convinced pathway to accomplish a purpose, a purpose to help humankind. I discover that I was actually motivated to explore the homeless issue with community nursing. I have always been interested and curious about how people get to be homeless. I ask myself …show more content…
Majority of homeless individual are in this predicament mainly because of economic problems. Also homelessness is exaggerated by a number of social and political factors. As a result of these predicaments, it leads to low income results in inabilities to pay for housing, or medical Care. These are several risk factors that affect homelessness at the individual and family level. Homelessness is mostly believed to relate to informal and formal social support, and is only discreetly connected with local housing and employment conditions. These are some of the factors that cause family and individual homelessness, exposure to domestic violence, history of mental illness and/or drug abuse, lack of access to economic resources and non-economic social support, family dynamics and size, level of education, and local housing market conditions, among