Due to lack of insurance, financial ability, and transportation issues, they are likely undertreated for preventative care. Berne et al. , (1990) identify that homeless children have double the rate of chronic physical conditions of the general population, including “asthma, anemia, and malnutrition”. The amount of stress that Michael and Danielle are under could easily contribute to mental health and physical conditions that will go untreated. Similarly, “the effects of homelessness are even more profound on the mental health of children” (Berne et al., 1990, p. 86).…
Financial burdens, mental and physical health, substance abuse, incarceration and sudden changes in family’s dimensions are some of the causes for homelessness (Somerville, 2013). One of the main reasons why people experience homelessness is the lack of affordable housing. Specifically, people in more urban areas are in need of additional housing and other resources such as education, and medical care (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2016). Although policy changes in regards of affordable housing have changed, it still remains a great challenge to the majority (Amato & MacDonald, 2011). In addition, incarceration is one of the risk factors that could potentially lead to housing loss and future challenges in employment, and housing due to their criminal record (McQuistion, Gorroochurn, Hsu & Caton,…
Of the children exiting care, 9% were emancipated and 2% had unspecified “other outcomes” (Child Welfare Gateway Information). Nine percent does not seem like a substantial number, but that is 21, 875 children in one year who was released on their own with minimal support. Many of the kids have experienced trauma, abuse in and out of foster care, a lack of stability and a contempt for adults and authority figures. Combining the factors that are against them and what little resources they have working for them, the outcome is predictable. In a study on homeless emerging adults including adults whom have aged out, Rebecca J. Gomez et al.…
Works Cited Allard,Scott W.”Homelessness. ”World Book Encyclopedia, 2014,VOL.9, PP.302-303. “Homelessness in America.” National Coalition of the Homeless, www.NationalHomeless.org, Accessed 28 Nov. 2917. “Effects of Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness on Children and Youth.”…
Before this unit I thought that the majority of homeless people have a mental illness and now I think that the cause of homelessness is also caused by natural disasters, lack of affordable housing, unemployment, and many more cases. The teenager living in Las Vegas whose mother left him in Storied Streets was the most impactful part about my learning in the homelessness unit. When I was listening to his story, I realized that not only adults become homeless, but minors, a few years older than us, can come to be homeless. The thought that a teenager was living in their own school was difficult to comprehend. I want to learn why the population for homeless children has been increasing while homelessness for adult population has been decreasing…
Children use friendship as a way to explore who they are and a way to working out personal problems. This is another thing that homeless children will not be benefiting from. After 18 months, developmental delays start to show up in homeless children. Homeless children begin to exhibit their effects to stress. This will then cause them to be insecure, distrusting, fearful, etc., these developmental delays are thought to influence later behavioral and emotional problems.…
Several outcomes of homelessness include mental illnesses, sexual abuse among different…
Homelessness is a huge problem in the United States, roughly about 2 million (Covenant House) teenagers that are facing homelessness. Everyday people pass by homeless teenagers in every state that are living on the streets, in abandoned places, or even by a river. Teenagers are homeless for many different reasons. There are too many young adults in troubled families around the United States that are homeless; reasons such as a lack of parental support and substance abuse; but there are certain ways that the communities in the United States could help to eradicate the problem.…
Compared with housed populations, alcoholism, anemia, and growth problems are more common among homeless people, and pregnancy rates are higher . The risk among homeless vary for malnutrition, nutrition- related health problems, drugs and alcohol abuse, and mental illness. Fewer heads of families than single adults are substance abusers, and mental illness varies in prevalence among single men, single women, and parents in homeless families. (Jean L. Wiecha, Ms Johanna T. Dwyer, Dsc, RD Martha Dunn- Strohecker, PhD) Many if not most homeless individuals have had past involvement with the criminal justice system.…
Homelessness in the United States is getting worse and worse every year. Currently 3.5 million people in the U.S are experiencing it and the worst part is that 33% of this are youth under the age of 24. The shelters are filling up and this issue that could be resolved is getting worse. Homelessness is defined “ an individual who lacks housing ( without regard to where the individual is a member of a family), including an individual whose primary residence during the night is supervised public or private facility(e.g. shelters) that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing- nhchc.org.…
Problem and Background There is a growing rate of homelessness in the United States and it is happening to individuals from all walks of life. Sub groups including veterans, children, families, senior citizens are the collection of homeless individuals. In the 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, 564,708 people were homeless on a given January night. Majority of these individuals (69 percent) were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and 31 percent were found in unsheltered locations. Twenty-three percent (127,786) of all homeless people were children, under the age of 18, nine percent (52,973) were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 68 percent (383,948) were 25 years or older.…
Suggesting that individuals that have many siblings may not have the full support needed because of economic reasons such as a parent working all the time to support all the children or due to not being eligible for aid or not having an education to provide them a higher paying job. If you take another step back to childhood you can look at the attachment theory. For those homeless youth that did not have a secure attachment to their parents or caregivers. Their experiences may have left them insecure, making it difficult for them to make social relationships and have trouble with anxiety making it difficult to get good grades or “avoidant” where they have poor social and stress coping skills (Kirst-Ashman, 2014). Reviewing another article written by Greg Owens, talks about the changes from 1984 to current day, some of the reasons we have homelessness.…
Identify the Problem= The youth of America are filled with the unwavering possibilities that will be the foundation for this nation. However the increasing number of those under the age of 18 under the category of “runaways” are high with the average between 1.6 to 2.8 million yearly. It is an issue that has not been established towards the public about how often child abuse occurs behind closed- doors and its effect. The endangerment of underage males/females by abuse should be addressed by our federal government to protect the rights of these individuals and their welfare.…
Homeless family is a huge concern because it is more likely for children in those familgies to experience health problems, stress, and school, which might influence their future in all kinds of aspects. (Health, social, education, and economic outcomes) (Munley, 2012) 5. In only one single month in 2015, 358,422 people were homeless as individuals, which was only 64 percent of all homeless people (Henry, Shivji, Sousa, & Cohen, 2015). II.…
Growing up in a southern Alabama town of less than 10,000 residents, I was not truly aware of the issue of homelessness. Homelessness was only a subject which I had seen in the news and in movies. However, when I became a peer helper as a junior in high school, my perception soon changed. I became part of a peer mentoring program, in which I counseled underprivileged and troubled middle school students. Through this program I discovered that homelessness was not a problem rooted in major cities, for it lied even in a town as small my own.…