Anti-homelessness legislation

Anti-Homeless Laws in America The homeless population has always been looked down on. They’ve suffered violence, taunting, starvation and a number of other ailments. In Cape Coral Florida a thirteen year old brutally stabbed fifty one year old Thomas Bergstrom in his tent at a ramshackle camp. In Albuquerque New Mexico Al Gorman was beaten beyond Recognition by a group of teenagers who attacked him because he was an easy victim for the teenagers pent up anger. On November twenty-third tai Lam,…

Think about this situation, you are at school and suddenly there is an earthquake tornado or some other natural disaster. Sadly most of the students are killed, later the parents are called in to help identify some of the remains. How are these parents going to figure out if this corpse is their child? Hmmm… maybe by what they saw their child walk out of the house in that morning, so uniforms actually could cause a problem instead of help fix them.      School uniforms…

Homelessness: Why do so many refuse to help? According to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2005) there are an estimated 100 million homeless individuals in the world. In the United States alone there are estimated over 600,000 Americans who suffer from homelessness on any given night according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. More than one quarter of these individuals are children under the age of 18 (2014). Homelessness is an issue that has been…

Culture and Individual Development in Homelessness Katelyn Rose Morris Butte Community College Culture and Individual Development in Homelessness “I miss my house but I’m never homeless. Home is where you make it… I miss my home, but I’m never homeless. Home is where you make it” (Indar, 2013). After reading this as well as many other short stories and poems that were compiled into the book Writing for Donuts, you can definitely see that the homeless have a culture all their own. Culture and…

States have grown up with a family member who was an alcohol or drug abuser. These kids were often abused physically and sexually at a young age which often results in a low self-esteem, substance abuse, and running away from home (Pearce, 1). Youth homelessness is one of the most overlooked problems by many in the United States today. As the number of homeless youth continues to rise every day; the government of the United States and its people need to come together to put a stop to the rise…

Argument Essay In the article “Charity means you don’t pick and choose” by Patricia O’hara, the author shows a contrast between the giving and the poor. The article explains how a little boy and his mother were stopped by a “homeless person” and how he asked for his “doggie bag” if the little boy wasn’t going to eat his left over food. The mother reacts by grasping her sons’ hand, which gives an impression that she feels vulnerable around a homeless person. This is contrasted when another group…

Outreach I was a little apprehensive because I had never dealt much with people experiencing homelessness. Before it came time for me to volunteer I tried to imagine the types of people we might encounter and what their state of health could be, so I could prepare myself not to react negatively to the people we are trying to help. Doing this did not help me, I started to pity people that were experiencing homelessness, and I felt they were incapable of doing things by themselves. So I think that…

My Values and beliefs are important for me to know when working in the field because it help me to set boundary for myself. Knowing my values help me to set limits on what kind of client I’ll be able to work with, and who I’ll have a problem communicating with. It is necessary to know your values because it would soothe the tension between you and the client, and help you learn to keep a professional relationship between you two. For me to understand my values better, I always look into my…

The Negative Effects of Homelessness in Portland Majd Baghdadi 11132015 Independent Research Writing Portland State University Homelessness in Portland is a large issue. People who are homeless are affected in negative ways; crime involvement, which increase homeless arrest rates and affect hospital capacities based on the crime rate that some homeless make, and do crimes to avoid staying on the streets, health problems which affect the homeless by sharing needles for drug use and…

This case study of my community has been extremely interesting for me to research. I was confident that I was aware of the health of my community. I did not think that I would discover too many differences between my Walk About and my discoveries from my research. I was unsure if my informants from my Site Visit would have much to add to my research. Since, I was only aware of my informants at The Salvation Army providing clothes to my community. Now that I have completed my Walk About, my…