Homeless Intervention Paper

As the number of homeless people in the country keeps growing, we wonder what is being done or what has been done to improve this social issue. For most people, when they hear the word homeless they imagine a person that sleeps on a sidewalk, under a tent, or under a bridge. We often fail to realize that the definition of homelessness goes beyond what we imagine. According to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless person or family is someone who lacks a fixed regular residence (HUD Exchange, 2009); which can be someone who sleeps in a place not meant for human habitation. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act also states that a homeless person or family is also someone who sleeps in a privately or publicly temporary shelter or in a hotel or motel that is being paid by federal, state, or other government programs. Even though people sleeping in a shelter or in a hotel have a roof over their heads, they are still considered homeless under the definition of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. There are approximately 564,708 homeless people in the United States according to the …show more content…
CTI is time limited and it is addressed to prevent homelessness for people with serious mental illness who are going through a transition from institutions such as hospitals, shelters, or other inpatient facility to community living (Tomita, Lukens, & Herman, 2014). Through providing intensive case management, professionals that use the CTI model search for services that will prevent the individual or family from experiencing homelessness through their transition. Person’s with mental illness who are exiting certain institutions might not have a home to go to after being discharged and might also lack the knowledge about certain resources that will assist them during that transition, which is why this model attempts to prevent homelessness by providing that